coleus in English

noun
1
a tropical Southeast Asian plant of the mint family that has brightly colored variegated leaves and is popular as a houseplant.
Late-spring-to-frost annuals include the numerous sun coleuses , cleomes, periwinkles and zinnias.

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1. Objective: To establish HPLC-ELSD fingerprint of Coleus forskohlii.

2. Among foliage plants such things as coleus, dusty miller, begonia, and some geraniums are Adaptable

3. Synthetic or natural abscisic acid isolated from tomato fruits is transported in explants, petiole and internode segments from Coleus rheneltianus.

4. Jacobs (1961) found polar transport of auxin in Coleus stem sections to be both Basipetal and acropetal in the ratio of 3: 1.

5. ‘Abutilon, Acanthus, and nandina provide a back-drop, and double impatiens and coleus add seasonal color.’ ‘We took an Acanthus flower from a popular Georgian wallpaper design and blew it up so large that a single flower filled an entire wall.’

6. Cojones (n.) "courage," literally "testicles, balls," 1932, in Hemingway ("Death in the Afternoon," an account of Spanish bull-fighting), from Spanish cojon "testicle," from Latin coleus "the testicles" (source of Italian coglione), literally "strainer bag," a variant of culleus "a leather sack," cognate with Greek koleos "sheath of a sword, scabbard." ." Both are said in some sources to be