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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thesubtribe Centaureinae — thesafflowers .
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Examples
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- Safflower oil (Carthamus tinctorious) - Safflower oil applied to the scalp acts as a vasolidator that dilates blood vessels.
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“Usfur” the seeds of Carthamus tinctorius = Safflower
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In a commercial-scale trial, foliar sprays containing Neemros® at 10 - 25 g/l of water applied in combination with Trigard (whose Al is cyromazine) controlled leaf miners on Carthamus in a flower farm in Naivasha.
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Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) and some other oilseed and pulse crops, which are more drought resistant and have the capacity to grow well even under low soil-fertility conditions can be the ideal ones for a sustainable cropping system under dryland conditions.
1. Green manure crops in irrigated and rainfed lowland rice-based cropping systems in south Asia. 1992
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Plants such as Squama manis pentadactyla, Salvia miltiorrhiza and Carthamus tinctorius could prevent acute radiation sickness, induced experimentally.
Chapter 8 1991
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Furthermore, Typha angustifolia, Crataegus pinnatifida, Carthamus tinctorius oil and Camettia sinensis (tea) have the function of lowering the hyperlipidemia, hence prevent the incidence of arteriosclerosis.
Chapter 8 1991
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Safflower, Carthamus tinctorius, originates from the eastern Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf and was first cultivated for the orange dye obtained from the florets.
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SELIM, A.A. (1977) Insect pests of safflower (Carthamus tinctorius) in Mosul, northern I req.
Chapter 5 1953
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KNOWLES, P.F. (1968) Associations of high levels of oleic acid in the seed oil of safflower (Carthamus tinctorius) with other plant and seed characteristics.
Chapter 5 1953
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Prof. Ascherson first called my attention to the extremely anciently cultivated plant, the safflor (_Carthamus tinctoris_, Fig. 15), a thistle plant whose flowers were employed by the ancients as a dye.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 Various
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