hyperglycaemia
- n abnormally high blood sugar usually associated with diabetes
hyperglycemia
- n abnormally high blood sugar usually associated with diabetes
hypericaceae
- n used in some classification systems for plants usually included among the Guttiferae
hypericales
- n a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae
hypericism
- n a severe dermatitis of herbivorous domestic animals attributable to photosensitivity from eating Saint John's wort
hypericum
- n large almost cosmopolitan genus of evergreen or deciduous shrubs and herbs with often showy yellow flowers; cosmopolitan except tropical lowlands and Arctic or high altitudes and desert regions
hypericum androsaemum
- n deciduous bushy Eurasian shrub with golden yellow flowers and reddish-purple fruits from which a soothing salve is made in Spain
hypericum ascyron
- n perennial shrub having large star-shaped yellow flowers in narrowly pyramidal cymes
hypericum calycinum
- n creeping evergreen shrub with bright yellow star-shaped summer flowers; useful as ground cover
hypericum crux andrae
- n shrubby plant having yellow to apricot flowers with four petals arranged in a cross; southeastern United States: New York to Texas
hypericum gentianoides
- n annual wiry-stemmed North American weed with minute scalelike leaves and small yellow flowers
hypericum hypericoides
- n low shrubby plant having yellow flowers with four petals arranged in a cross; Bermuda and southeastern United States to West Indies and eastern Mexico
hypericum maculatum
- n European perennial St John's wort; Ireland and France to western Siberia
hypericum perforatum
- n yellow-flowered perennial common in fields and waste places but a weed in rangelands