(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.
Locust
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of long-winged, migratory, orthopterous insects, of the family Acrididae, allied to the grasshoppers; esp., (Edipoda, / Pachytylus, migratoria, and Acridium perigrinum, of Southern Europe, Asia, and Africa. In the United States the related species with similar habits are usually called grasshoppers. See Grasshopper.
(n.) The locust tree. See Locust Tree (definition, note, and phrases).
Example Sentences:
(1) The octopamine, dopamine and noradrenaline content of the brain of the locust, Schistocerca gregaria has been determined using sensitive radiochemical-enzymatic assays.
(2) Fifty-two analogues of the wasp toxin, philanthotoxin-433, have been synthesized and tested on a glutamatergic, nerve-muscle preparation from locust leg.
(3) Using a deafferented flight preparation of the locust and glass microelectrodes, we recorded simultaneously from the neuropil segments of different interneurons within a single thoracic ganglion.
(4) Activation of phosphorylase during flight is strongly reduced when locusts are ligated at the neck, indicating that this activation is due to a factor from the head, which upon flight is released into the hemolymph.
(5) However, we also demonstrate that published data show the existence of strong nonlinearities in the single-photon responses of toad and perhaps also of locust.
(6) The embryonic development of the specialized glial cells that form the perineurial blood-brain barrier in the locust CNS has been studied by freeze-fracture and tracer uptake.
(7) In terrestrial insects such as locusts and cockroaches ventilatory movements are governed by a dominant oscillator in the metathoracic or anterior abdominal ganglion.
(8) Intracellular and extracellular electrodes were used to study spontaneous and impulse-linked release of transmitter at locust retractor unguis nerve-muscle synapses.2.
(9) Two mosaic sibling embryos of the Australian plague locust, Chortoicetes terminifera are reported with haploid and diploid cell lines in widely differing proportions.
(10) Locust phospholipids contain myoinositol but no scylloinositol.
(11) The anti-G beta, gamma antibodies recognized a 35-36-kDa protein in brain of vertebrates such as mammals (rat), avians (pigeon), amphibians (frog), fish (trout), and reptiles (turtle) but not in the invertebrates such as molluscs (snail) and insects (locust).
(12) The bioactivity of the endogenous FMRFamide-like peptides has been assessed on the extensor tibiae neuromuscular preparation and on the locust heart.
(13) It is proposed that serially homologous motor neurons serving similar functions are, to a first approximation, similar in the locust.
(14) Indeed, diglycerides constitute the largest neutral lipid fraction in the hemolymph of silkmoths, locusts, cockroaches, bugs, etc.
(15) The morphology and organisation of the central projections of tactile hair afferents from the hind leg of the locust, Schistocerca gregaria, were examined by staining individual hair afferents.
(16) The third experiment revealed that LiCl injections did not influence either maternal aggression or locust killing in naive females and predatory aggression in experienced-killer females.
(17) If harm is to be expected, then a quantitative comparison of that with the undoubted benefits of locust control is required to enable one to make a value judgement.
(18) This implies that the locust's computation of target distance involves signals concerning its own head motion.
(19) Allatal diol formation may be an additional mechanism for the control of JH-III levels in locusts, preceding release into the hemolymph.
(20) In the prey-catching task animals failed to target or track locusts when they were in the field contralateral to the lesion throughout the 4-day testing period.