Example sentences for: piper

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  • Plant species that show potential efficacy against skin conditions are Momordica , Piper , Solanum and Vernonia . Jatropha and Justicia species contain compounds with potential in wound healing.

  • There is evidence that some of the plants used by hunters are eaten by deer and possibly by other game animals (these are Costus species, Eschweilera species, Piper species and Pithecellobium species [ 32 ] . Tukanoan tribes also recognise the complex pheromonal system of chemical communication that deer and other animals use.

  • The Post story, much more colorful than the NYT and LAT front-pagers on the same subject, has the judge comparing the pilots to Mafia extortionists, promising the union that its assets will fit in the "overhead bin of a Piper Cub" after he got through with it, and even pointing out that many of the pilots had learned their trade while in the U.S. armed services.

  • When hunters bathe dogs with strongly smelling members of the Piper species they may be imitating animal behaviour or trying to mask the individual body odour of their dogs so that they remain un-detected by game animals.

  • The chloroform extracts of branches of Piper auritum and Piper guineense inhibit growth of Candida albicans , Cladosporium cucumerinum and the pathogenic fungus Basidiobolus haptosporus [ 92 117 ] . These results indicate a possible use of this plant extract in the treatment of subcutaneous phycomycosis in humans and animals [ 117 ] . Piper species contain lignans, benzoic acid derivatives, flavonoids including the dihydrochalcones (asebogenin) and the alkaloid piplartine-dimer A [ 61 118 ] . Asebogenin may have antiplasmodial activity [ 118 ] . The piperamides (cepharadione A and B) from Piper auritum possess antifungal and anaesthetic properties [ 61 ] . Dogs may be bathed with various Piper species to remove external parasites.


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