tansy


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common perennial aromatic herb native to Eurasia having buttonlike yellow flower heads and bitter-tasting pinnate leaves sometimes used medicinally

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But Richard and Tansy do want to have a role in local tourism.
They have also had to cope with Tansy's diagnosis with a genetic disorder called neurofibromatosis, or NF1, which can cause tumours to form on any of your nerve endings.
But first the PI has to figure out why Lula's neighbour Tansy changed her story about hearing a second person that night, who it could have been, and how they got in and out.
Tansy says that Ahtna considers the project a success, in part because of a perfect safety record.
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COUNTRYSIDE: I read your recommendation to grow plants to attract trichogramma wasps, including tansy. If you mean tansy ragwort that grows rampantly in Oregon, I would never intentionally plant it.
''so like heart been Now, almost two years on, Barrie's family – including his mum Frances and dad Tansy, both 55, and brother Matthew, 34 – are doing all they can to raise awareness of the syndrome.
Between all the Birtwistle pieces we heard a repeat (there's a welcome word in contemporary music) of Tansy Davies' 2012 Sound T Investment commission Nature, and it certainly lives up to its title.
Tansy Rogerson, marketing manager of the PS6.5m Bodnant Welsh Food Centre, officially opened by Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall last summer, said: "We've got so many fantastic artisan producers on our doorstep, as well as nationally in Wales, that we need to shout about them.
"We've been working on putting a real product together ever since," LA Times quoted Tansy Brook, a representative of Neurosky, the company that provided the mind-reading technology, as saying.
But the competition is fierce and we certainly don't envy the judges, composer and performer Tansy Davies; Marshall Marcus, Director of the London Southbank Centre's Sistema Programme; prominent British pianist, composer and teacher Huw Watkins and Gareth Jones, conductor and founder of Sinfonia Cymru.
A 12-year-old Irish girl, Mary, is visited by the ghost of her great-grandmother, Tansy, who appears in order to ease her own daughter now a grandmother herself--towards her death.
Tansy ragwort, an invasive plant species that was almost eradicated in Oregon during the 1980s, has made something of a resurgence over the past five years, scientists at Oregon State University say.
Composer Tansy Davies has been commissioned to score another early film, and further commissions may follow.