Thespesia populnea


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Noun1.Thespesia populnea - pantropical tree of usually seacoasts sometimes cultivated as an ornamental for its rounded heart-shaped leaves and showy yellow and purple flowers; yields valuable pink to dark red close-grained wood and oil from its seeds
genus Thespesia, Thespesia - a small genus of tropical trees including the portia tree
tulipwood tree - any of various trees yielding variously colored woods similar to true tulipwood
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Ravindhranath, "Extraction of methyl orange dye from polluted waters using bio-sorbents derived from Thespesia populnea and Pongamia pinnata plants," Der Pharma Chemica, vol.
Dowd, "Identification of the unsaturated heptadecyl fatty acids in the seed oils of thespesia populnea and gossypium hirsutum," JAOCS, Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society, vol.
(2009) reported that, the mean ZIs of Ficus religiosa, Thespesia populnea and Hibiscus tiliaceus leaves aqueous, methanol and chloroform extracts against 9 microorganisms ranged between 10 mm (S.
2011), Thespesia Populnea bark (Prabakaran, Arivoli 2012), activated locust bean husk (Parkia biglobosa) (Oladunni et al.
Evaluation of antiulcer activity of the terpenoid fraction from the leaves of Thespesia populnea (L) (Malvaceae) in albino rats.
Biodiesel from Milo (Thespesia populnea L.) Seed Oil, Biomass and Bioenergy, 35: 4043-4039.
Venkataraman, "Antioxidant activity of Thespesia populnea bark extracts against carbon tetrachloride-induced liver injury in rats," Journal of Ethnopharmacology, vol.