Word: shrub
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...that seems to float in mid-air, its ostensible support outside the bounds of the lens. The shadowed interior fronds reveal the internal structure to be hollow. The scene is similarly hollow, empty, deserted. There are two more trees, in at the fore, with one sized more like a shrub, but the viewer can just glimpse an island’s coast, and the open sea, in the background. The contrast between dark and light is artful and the image clear. The white of the sky is pure...
...early clinical trials of the new drug Artekin eradicated malaria parasites in 95% to 100% of patients tested. And Artekin costs just $1.20 per dose, one-third the price of today's treatments. The drug is a combination of dihydro-artemisinin, borrowed from the traditional Chinese treatment of wormwood shrub, and piperaquine, a chemical related to chloroquine. Currently available only in China, Artekin could be fast-tracked for release in Cambodia and Vietnam as early as 2003. With over 1 million people dying of malaria each year, there's no time to lose...
...herbal brew, is made from the South African rooibos shrub. The reddish-brown tea has a full, strong taste and smells earthy, like grape stems or olives. It's the rare herbal tea that can take milk. It's also caffeine free, high in antioxidants and low in potentially kidney-damaging oxalic acid...
...anywhere in nature. Food manufacturers are just trying to piggyback on the earlier successes of the dietary-supplements industry. After all, that was the industry that convinced us--with a little help from the U.S. Congress--that purple coneflowers might ward off colds and that roots from an Asian shrub could boost energy levels...
When you squeeze the bright star-shaped yellow buds of the hardy perennial Hypericum perforatum, they yield a red juice that reminded medieval Europeans of the blood of John the Baptist. Valued for its magical healing powers, St. John's wort (a Middle English word for "plant"), as the shrub is commonly called, has been used since the time of ancient Greece for treating any number of ailments, from liver and bowel disorders to hysteria, obesity and insomnia...