* Pan, also spelled Paan, a North Indian term for Betel, often mixed with tobacco and lime for chewing as a mouth freshener

Examples of herbs where a high degree of confidence of a risk long term adverse effects can be asserted include ginseng, which is unpopular among herbalists for this reason, the endangered herb goldenseal, milk thistle, senna, against which herbalists generally advise and rarely use, aloe vera juice, buckthorn bark and berry, cascara sagrada bark, saw palmetto, valerian, kava, which is banned in the European Union, St. John's wort, Khat, Betel nut, the restricted herb Ephedra, and Guarana.

The Online Etymology Dictionary speculates that the word is an alteration of the 1940s term nert ( meaning " stupid or crazy person "), which is itself an alteration of " nut ".

The term applies mostly to community card poker games where the individual holding the strongest possible hand, with the given board of community cards, is capable of knowing that they have the nut hand.

The term coconut can refer to the entire coconut palm, the seed, or the fruit, which, botanically, is a drupe, not a nut.

The trivial name walnut derives from Old English wealhhnutu, literally ' foreign nut ,' with wealh meaning ' foreign ' ( coming from the prolific Germanic term Walhaz ' foreign, strange, different ').

A person who engages in these activities is known as a bus spotter, bus fan ( popular name in Hong Kong ), bus nut ( term popular in the UK ) or bus enthusiast ( although this term can also cover preservationists ).

The term refers to the almond like shape: " mandorla " means almond nut in Italian.

Everyday common usage of the term often refers to any hard-walled, edible kernel as a nut.

A nut in cuisine is a much less restrictive category than a nut in botany, as the term is applied to many seeds that are not botanically true nuts.

The term comes for the Greek karuo-( from karuon ) meaning nut and-gamos meaning marriage.

As used in The World Factbook land use statistics the term comprises land cultivated for crops like citrus, olives, coffee, and rubber ; it includes land under flowering shrubs, fruit trees, nut trees, and vines, but excludes land under trees grown for wood or timber.

( In American English, the term is simply " nut ".

Certain aspects of these early religious practice survive even today the term buniag ( ie baptism ), it is said comes from Buni or Kabunian, and, until more recent years, in Santa Maria some professed belief in spirits inhibiting fields and trees, in whose honor half-cooked rice, betel nut and chicken meat were offered.

( To simplify matters the term hexagon will be used in this paragraph to denote either bolt head or nut.

The term jesus nut may have been coined by American soldiers in Vietnam ; the Vietnam War was the first war to feature large numbers of soldiers riding in helicopters.

A derivative term used in radio-controlled helicopters is the " Jesus Bolt ", which refers to a bolt whose function is analogous to the Jesus nut in a full size helicopter.

The term " Gun nut " has been used to describe firearms enthusiasts who are deeply involved with the gun culture.

The term " hendecasyllable " is sometimes used in English poetry to describe a line of iambic pentameter with an extra short syllable at the end, as in the first line of John Keats's Endymion: " A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.

The term can also be used to describe a similar reaction to a surfeit of choice in other circumstances, e. g. when confronted with immense beauty in the natural world.

The common people began to term her a " siren " or " Messalina ", although they were pleased with her beauty.

By this strict distinction, because the term noun is used for a class of single words ( tree, beauty ), only single-word proper names are proper nouns: Peter and Africa are both proper names and proper nouns ; but Peter the Great and South Africa, while they are proper names, are not proper nouns.

The term describes an aesthetic that can be found in disparate areas in East Asia: a young man whose beauty ( and sexual appeal ) transcends the boundary of gender or sexual orientation.

In Italy ( and gradually elsewhere ) she soon became established as a star, although she lacked the conventional beauty and glamour often associated with the term.

The pageant originated as a beauty contest in 1921, but now prefers to avoid this term since Swimsuit and Evening Wear comprise only 35 percent of the overall score used to judge contestants.

In the fields of philosophy and æsthetics, the term philistinism describes the social attitude of anti-intellectualism that undervalues and despises art, beauty, spirituality, and intellect ; ‘ the manners, habits, and character, or mode of thinking of a philistine ’.

The Mandarin term names the women after Xi Shi, the legendary beauty of imperial China's Spring and Autumn Period.

Regional park is a term used for an area of land preserved on account of its natural beauty, historic interest, recreational use or other reason, and under the administration of a form of local government.

The English-language term " professional beauty ", referring to a woman who uses personal skills to advance to elite status, was also used to describe her.

* Health and beauty aids, a term used for cosmetics and toiletry items

Because of this requirement, nearly all new officers of the Air Corps underwent Randolph's rigorous pilot training program and, in combination with the architectural beauty of the base, Mayor Chamber's term West Point of the Air became the unofficial nickname for Randolph Field.

Geoff Nunberg suggests the use of such a semantically banal term to illustrate the idea of beauty appeals to aesthetes as " an occasion to display a capacity to discern beauty in the names of prosaic things ".

The project “ seeks to protect and preserve the scenic beauty and natural character of the river valley, seeks to manage the resources of the area for the long term benefit of the citizens of the state and seeks to provide a quality public recreational area in a manner consistent with the resource and aesthetic protection goals and objectives ”.

American sociologist David Riesman coined the term “ Operation Abundance ” also known as the “ Nylon War ” which predicted “ Russian people would not long tolerate masters who gave them tanks and spies instead of vacuum cleaners and beauty parlors .” The Soviets would have to produce more consumer goods to quell mass discontent.

The seminary is frequently noted for the beauty of the gardens on its campus, called the Close, an English term used to refer to a private piece of enclosed property and often associated with cathedrals.

Picturesque meaning literally " in the manner of a picture ; fit to be made into a picture " was a word used as early as 1703 ( Oxford English Dictionary ), and derived from an Italian term pittoresco, meaning, " in the manner of a painter ," William Gilpin's Essay on Prints ( 1768 ) defined picturesque as " ... a term expressive of that peculiar kind of beauty, which is agreeable in a picture " ( xii ).

A runner-up is a participant who finishes in second place in any of a variety of competitive endeavors, most notably sporting events and beauty pageants ; in the latter instance, the term is applied to more than one of the highest-ranked non-winning contestants, the second-place finisher being designated " first runner-up ", the third-place finisher " second runner-up ", and so on.

The term is commonly used in conversation and writing, but is not necessarily exclusive of other categories of beauty.

The worship of beauty is Shelley's new religion, and it is significant that he calls his poem a hymn, a term used almost exclusively for religious verse.

Since the singing style of later 17th-century Italy did not differ in any marked way from that of the 18th century and early 19th century, a connection can be drawn ; but, according to Jander, most musicologists agree that the term is best limited to its mid-19th-century use, designating a style of singing that emphasized beauty of tone and technical expertise in the delivery of music that was either highly florid or featured long, flowing and difficult-to-sustain passages of cantilena.

This term was also used by the cowboy in the sense of a human showin' fight, as one cowhand was heard to say, `` He arches his back like a mule in a hailstorm ''.

The term altruism may also refer to an ethical doctrine that claims that individuals are morally obliged to benefit others.

Assistive technology or adaptive technology ( AT ) is an umbrella term that includes assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative devices for people with disabilities and also includes the process used in selecting, locating, and using them.

Until the 20th century, the term asphaltum was also used.

The term also broadly refers to any enterprise that is potentially fraught with physical, financial or psychological risk, such as a business venture, a love affair, or other major life undertakings.

Anatolia ( from Greek — " east " or "( sun ) rise "; also Asia Minor, from " small Asia "; in modern ) is a geographic and historical term denoting the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey.

Other terms that have been used include neosyllabary ( Février 1959 ), pseudo-alphabet ( Householder 1959 ), semisyllabary ( Diringer 1968 ; a word which has other uses ) and syllabic alphabet ( Coulmas 1996 ; this term is also a synonym for syllabary ).

The term analog signal usually refers to electrical signals ; however, mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and other systems may also convey analog signals.

The Senate also has 18 members, elected for a four year term by and from the chiefs of the islands.

The term was also used to describe sculpture and painting that demonstrated a greater degree of naturalism.

" This term apparently also inspired the name of the alternate history book list, uchronia. net.

The term may also refer to the physical region where the electron can be calculated to be, as defined by the particular mathematical form of the orbital.

The term may be also used loosely or metaphorically to denote highly skilled people in any non -" art " activities, as well — law, medicine, mechanics, or mathematics, for example.

Use of the word " artiste " can also be a pejorative term.

' American ' is derived from America, a term originally denoting all of the New World ( also called " the Americas ").

The Spanish term norteamericano ( North American ), is frequently used to refer things and persons from the United States, but this term can also denote people and things from Canada, and the rest of North America.

For referring specifically to a U. S. national and things, the words used are estadunidense ( also spelled estado-unidense ) ( United States person ), from Estados Unidos da América, and ianque ( Yankee ), but the term most often used is norte-americano, even though it could, as with its Spanish equivalent, in theory apply to Canadians, Mexicans, etc., as well.

Latin Americans also may employ the term norteamericano ( North American ), which conflates the United States, Canada and Mexico.

The term argot is also used to refer to the informal specialized vocabulary from a particular field of study, hobby, job, sport, etc.

Those who uphold the original beliefs of Jacobus Arminius himself, is the common way to define Arminianism, but those of Hugo Grotius, John Wesley and others also understood the term as a sort of umbrella for a bigger alliance of ideas as well.

The term can also refer to an establishment which has long ceased to function as an abbey, in some cases for centuries ( for example, see Westminster Abbey below ).

Amber occurring in coal seams is also called resinite, and the term ambrite is applied to that found specifically within New Zealand coal seams.

The term “ amber ” is loosely used to describe a scent that is warm, musky, rich and honey-like, and also somewhat oriental and earthy.

) The book also introduces the term " Absalonism ", as a generic term for a son's rebellion against his father.