(n) Arabian physician and influential Islamic philosopher; his interpretation of Aristotle influenced St. Thomas Aquinas; writings on medicine were important for almost 500 years (980-1037), Syn. ibn-Sina, Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina
(n) a mangrove of the West Indies and the southern Florida coast; occurs in dense thickets and has numerous short roots that bend up from the ground, Syn. Avicennia marina
(n) a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant; source of medicinally important alkaloids and of lysergic acid, Syn. Claviceps purpurea
[囧, jiǒngㄐㄩㄥˇ] variant of 冏, velvetleaf (Abutilon avicennae), plant of the jute family; bright; used as emoticon ("smiley") meaning sad :-(, depressed or frustrated, See Also: 冏#6488