(n.) A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals.
(n.) A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates.
(n.) The inspissated juice of several species of acacia; -- called also gum acacia, and gum arabic.
(2) These effects have been explained in terms of shielding of electrostatic attractions between gelatin and acacia polyions by adsorption of ionic and non-ionic surfactant molecules onto the polyions.
(3) This paper presents analytical data that confirm the mean values previously established for nitrogen and the specific rotation of bulk commercial gum arabic from Acacia senegal.
(4) 91:1314-1319.-In nodules of Vigna sinensis, Acacia longifolia, and Viminaria juncea, membrane envelopes enclose groups of bacteroids.
(5) Only the flowers of Acacia arabica and Hibiscus rosa-sinensis appeared to lack teratologic potential at the doses tested.
(6) The government announced last month that two units at Hakea would be cordoned off to house 256 female prisoners from Bandyup, in an effort to ease overcrowding there, while 400 male remandees would be sent to new units in Acacia.
(7) Pollen of acacias is transported by insects as polyads, composite pollen grains.
(8) We have described respiratory allergy to the pollens of mimosa (Acacia floribunda) in some Mediterranean areas of Italy and France.
(9) Isozyme markers were used to test this hypothesis in two populations of Acacia melanoxylon R.Br.
(10) Flies restricted to the riverine gallery forest in the dry season become dispersed into approximately 1 km of the Acacia thickets in the wet season.
(11) In trial 1, the mean gingival and plaque scores were lower after 7 days of using Acacia compared with sugar-free gum but the differences were insignificant.
(12) The presence of acacia gum decreased the mechanical toughness and the water vapour transmission rate and increased the film water solubility.
(13) Black locust (Robinia pseudo-Acacia), bush clover (Lespedeza bicolor), wistaria (Wistaria floribunda) and Japanese knotgrass (Reynoutria japonica) were used for the present experiment.
(14) The starch performed as well as maize starch in binding and disintegrating properties and better than acacia as binder.
(15) Suture was with cotton or human hair, acacia and other thorns, ant jaws, and sinew, with or without a drain.
(16) The regulatory specifications for gum arabic (Acacia senegal) are superficial and inadequate to ensure that it is not adulterated with non-permitted gums from other botanical sources.
(17) Eleven cases of poisoning of children who had chewed threads from the barks of trees subsequently identified as Robinia pseudo-acacia were detected in Sanlúcar La Mayor (Sevilla).
(18) Lectin binding on the cell surface was measured by the method of Kornfeld [16] using three tritiated lectins: Robinia pseudo acacia, Concanavalin A and Ricinus.
(19) 2 blind crossover trials were carried out to evaluate the antiplaque potential of Acacia gum compared with sugar free gum.
(20) The spray-dried powders of the pods and stem bark of Acacia nilotica subspp.
Baobab
Definition:
(n.) A gigantic African tree (Adansonia digitata), also naturalized in India. See Adansonia.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s an additional income but it’s also a financial safeguard.” Rosby Mthinda, who has worked with Dohse for more than a decade and now trains collectors in her role as field assistant, says the baobab trade is paying dividends for people and the environment.
(2) When it was first licensed for the European food market six years ago, baobab was – with a certain inevitability –proclaimed a superfood to rival quinoa, blueberries and kale.
(3) As the sachets of powder, tubs of lotion, jars of jam, and bottles of juices and liqueurs that line his shelves testify, his hopes – and his money – are on a rather more niche fruit: baobab.
(4) Two years ago, that same person would probably have asked how baobab was spelt.” Despite the optimism, Dohse knows that baobab will never be a cash crop to rival the tobacco on which one of Africa’s poorest countries depends .
(5) Dohse, who is the managing director of the Malawi-based company TreeCrops – which buys and processes baobab and other wild-plant products – believes the world’s appetite for the tangy fruit is sharpening.
(6) Photograph: Sam Jones for the Guardian For the time being, though, its success will rest on the world’s appetite for the creamy-coloured fruit of the baobab.
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(8) He also realised that the commercialisation of the baobab could provide rural communities with a financial incentive to protect their woodlands and act as a bulwark against deforestation in a country that is losing its trees at a rate of around 3% a year as people clear land for firewood and farming.
(9) But, argues Dohse, the benefits of baobab transcend the individual.
(10) The mobile phone is fast becoming as much an African symbol as the leopard or baobab tree.
(11) PhytoTrade Africa , a non-profit, membership-based trade association that works to alleviate poverty and protect biodiversity in southern Africa, believes that the baobab’s time has come.
(12) Most of the MWK39,940 (£64) of baobab she has sold TreeCrops this year will go on food; the rest will be used to fix the roof.
(13) "With baobab, we're characterising its variation and we're seeing there are big differences in baobab from one provenance to another," says Jamnadass.
(14) Its coast is framed by stately baobabs and swathed in white sand beaches, where accommodation ranges from camps offering simple reed cabanas to Kaya Mawa, one of southern Africa's most indulgent resorts.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest George Chisale, who lives in Mangochi, southern Malawi, scales a baobab tree to harvest its fruit.
(16) Those who depend on the rain often suffer a lot.” Mthinda also tells the collectors to take care of the trees and plants around the baobabs – “you never know the plants that will be valuable tomorrow”.
(17) I am planning to build another; I am just saving up to buy the bricks.” Edith Matewere, who sits in a room in Mkope Mwerembe village splitting baobab pods with a panga knife, started collecting the fruit seven years ago.
(18) The refugee camp at Tiburtina is also intended to take pressure off a nearby Eritrean cultural centre, Baobab, where dozens of migrants queued for meals.
(19) When Dohse and his colleagues travel to the countryside in search of collectors to harvest the baobab fruit in March and April, they stress the economic benefits of trees.
(20) Outside the Baobab centre, a group of young Eritrean men said they planned to travel onwards to France.