germander
/dʒəˈmandə
/noun
A widely distributed plant of the mint family. Some kinds are cultivated as ornamentals and some are used in herbal medicine.
- Genus Teucrium, family Labiatae: many species, including the European wall germander (T. chamaedrys).
- Herbs, such as germander and santolina, can be clipped into low hedges to create a knot garden.
- For example, programmed cell death in isolated rat hepatocytes has been implicated in the hepatitis induced by a herbal medicine containing diterpinoids from germander.
Origin
Late Middle English: from medieval Latin germandra, based on Greek khamaidrus, literally 'ground oak', from khamai 'on the ground' + drus 'oak' (because the leaves of some species were thought to resemble those of the oak).
Rhymes
- pizza face
- pizzaiolo
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- pizzella
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- pizzicato
- pizzle
- pizzle rot
- pièce a thèse
- pièce de circonstance
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- pièce d'occasion
- pièce justificative
- pièce montée
- pièce noire
- pièce rose
- pièce à thèse
- piña
- piñata