The cream-colored, loose-fitting shirts are made of pineapple plant fiber and silk, with designs of windows and rice stalks woven in.
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This is the first autumn that Terrell brought the pineapple plant into the main part of the house instead of parking it in the basement through the winter.
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The latter was found more effective in promoting growth of the pineapple plants, and people wrote of the benefits of " live heat " relative to " dead heat ".
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Like resident royalty, the pineapple plant sits in a place of honor in Jessie Terrell's dining room, carried about the house occasionally to be admired by family, friends and visitors.
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He specializes in explaining not just the obvious _ the flat coral altars where early Polynesians worshiped before going to war, the rows of spiky pineapple plants at the island's largest plantation _ but the obscure.
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It has long been known in animal studies that bromelain, a substance obtained from the stems and leaves of the pineapple plant, suppresses trauma-induced swelling caused by the release of bradykinin into the bloodstream and tissues.
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When " she came back with all kinds of beautiful paintings but nothing to do with pineapple ", she explained that nobody had shown her any pineapple plants, so he sent her one, which she then painted.
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A concentrate of proteolytic enzymes from the pineapple plant enriched in bromelain is approved in Europe for the debridement ( removal of eschar, that is dead and damaged tissue ) of severe burn wounds under the trade name "'NexoBrid " '.