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silk vine — noun deciduous climber for arches and fences having ill scented but interesting flowers and poisonous yellow fruits; cultivated for its dark shining foliage; southeastern Europe to Asia Minor • Syn: ↑Periploca graeca • Hypernyms: ↑vine • Member… … Useful english dictionary
Silk Road — The Silk Road, or Silk Routes, are an extensive interconnected network of trade routes across the Asian continent connecting East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean world, including North Africa and Europe. The so called Silk Routes… … Wikipedia
Periploca graeca — Silk Vine Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked) … Wikipedia
Periploca — noun genus of woody vines of warm regions of the Old World • Syn: ↑genus Periploca • Hypernyms: ↑dicot genus, ↑magnoliopsid genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Asclepiadaceae, ↑family Asclepiadaceae, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Golden Sands Nature Park — (Bulgarian: Природен парк Златни пясъци ) is a national park on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast in Varna Province. It is spread on an area of 1320.7 hectares. The park is 9.2 km long and on the average 1.2 km wide; it was declared a protected… … Wikipedia
periplocin — A cardiotonic glycoside obtained from the bark and stems of Periploca graeca (family Asclepiadaceae), a plant of southern Europe. [G. peri ploke, a winding around, fr. pleko, to twine, plait] * * * pe·rip·lo·cin pə rip lə .sin, .per ə plō sən n a … Medical dictionary
Periploca graeca — noun deciduous climber for arches and fences having ill scented but interesting flowers and poisonous yellow fruits; cultivated for its dark shining foliage; southeastern Europe to Asia Minor • Syn: ↑silk vine • Hypernyms: ↑vine • Member Holonyms … Useful english dictionary
Periploca — Pe·rip·lo·ca pə rip lə kə n a genus of woody vines of the milkweed family (Asclepiadaceae) found in warm regions of the Old World that have dry many seeded cylindrical fruits and include the silk vine … Medical dictionary
periplocymarin — pe·rip·lo·cy·ma·rin pe .rip lō sī mə rən n a glycoside C30H46O8 obtainable from the silk vine * * * peri·plo·cy·ma·rin (per″ĭ plo siґmə rin) a cardiac glycoside from the bark and wood of Periploca graeca L. (Asclepiadaceae) … Medical dictionary
genus Periploca — noun genus of woody vines of warm regions of the Old World • Syn: ↑Periploca • Hypernyms: ↑dicot genus, ↑magnoliopsid genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Asclepiadaceae, ↑family Asclepiadaceae, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
