linaria (iou) and bases (medicine)

linaria (iou)

linaria noun. L16.
[mod. Latin (see below), from Latin linum flax (with ref. to the leaf-shape) + -aria -ARY1.]
Any of several plants of the genus Linaria, of the figwort family, with spurred flowers and linear leaves; esp. yellow toad-flax, L. vulgaris.

bases (medicine)

base
<chemistry> The nonacid part of a salt, a substance that combines with acids to form salts, a substance that dissociates to give hydroxide ions in aqueous solutions, a substance whose molecule or ion can combine with a proton (hydrogen ion), a substance capable of donating a pair of electrons (to an acid) for the formation of a coordinate covalent bond.

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