(1) Removal of achenes from fruits and growing the receptacles without auxin resulted in the time-dependent accumulation of 52,000 Mr polypeptide.
(2) Achen and Achibu, from Amorikot primary school in Katine sub-county in rural northern Uganda, are performing a series of plays and poems at a National Sanitation Week event, organised by the African Medical and Research Foundation (Amref).
(3) It is an interesting fact that neither 2-monoene alkalmides nor polyacetylenes could be detected during achene germination.
(4) Leaves, stems, roots, and achenes were assayed separately.
(5) It has been proposed that this role is the transport of thyroxine from the bloodstream to the brain [Schreiber, G., Aldred, A.R., Jaworowski, A., Nilsson, C., Achen, M.G.
(6) Download our PDF of Farm-Africa and Amref's six-month achievements Harriet Achen stands in front of an expectant crowd, betraying no sign of nerves.
(7) The achenes (fruits) of the therapeutically used Echinacea species E. purpurea, E. angustifolia, and E. pallida can be differentiated structurally (shape, anatomy) as well as phytochemically (essential oil components, alkamides).
(8) Chronic dermatitis in nutria (Myocastor coypus) in Louisiana was traced to secondary bacterial and fungal infection resulting from the penetration of achene awns of smooth beggartick (Bidens laevis) into the skin.
(9) She busies herself setting children tasks to help prepare a family meal and her fellow actors scuttle around obeying Achen's every command.
(10) Ozark Beauty) receptacles is regulated by auxin supplied from the achenes.
Buttercup
Definition:
(n.) A plant of the genus Ranunculus, or crowfoot, particularly R. bulbosus, with bright yellow flowers; -- called also butterflower, golden cup, and kingcup. It is the cuckoobud of Shakespeare.
Example Sentences:
(1) Words included in this title include mistletoe, gerbil, acorn, goldfish, guinea pig, dandelion, starling, fern, willow, conifer, heather, buttercup, sycamore, holly, ivy, and conker.
(2) When the duplex comb types were crossed to each other, the V-shaped comb showed complete dominance over the buttercup comb.
(3) The colour to channel for next season is, in fact, not matt buttercup yellow but the gold-foil sheen best explained as the colour of the toffee penny in a box of Quality Street.
(4) While this diagnosis was not absolutely confirmed, it was the most likely cause of the disease and raised the intriguing possibility that protoanemonin, buttercup's toxic principle, is hepatotoxic.
(5) A visit to his Scottish high school brought back memories of art classes spent dissecting, examining and drawing buttercups and carnations.
(6) The buttercup duplex comb of the Sicilian Buttercup in similar crosses was also shown to be inherited as an incompletely dominant trait, but with this type comb penetrance was reduced by 32% in females and its expression of duplex was greatly reduced when compared with the La Flèche.
(7) A” should be for acorn, “B” for buttercup and “C” for conker, not attachment, blog and chatroom, according to a group of authors including Margaret Atwood and Andrew Motion who are “profoundly alarmed” about the loss of a slew of words associated with the natural world from the Oxford Junior Dictionary, and their replacement with words “associated with the increasingly interior, solitary childhoods of today”.
(8) 'Pastels have never been so cool' Pale pink, sky blue, mint green and buttercup yellow are the colours of the season.
(9) For the long hours between, an endless afternoon, the light ceases to move, training its intensity on the elderflower, oxeye daisies and buttercups of Wharfedale until their colours take on the bleach-brightness that signals high summer in England.
(10) This is the English countryside in all its May-time loveliness – which the viewer actually watches months later, as they contemplate damp September – to be admired through lovingly filmed heads of cow parsley nodding under the weight of spring raindrops, or via long shots of fields of buttercups.
(11) Wide high cavernous nostrils are characteristic of all chicken breeds of the V-shaped duplex comb type, whereas all other breeds have slit-type nostrils, including the Sicilian Buttercup breed that has the buttercup-type duplex comb.
(12) It is proposed that there are at least three alleles at the duplex locus: D (v-type) greater than Dc (buttercup type) greater than d+ (non-duplex type).
(13) Do we want an alphabet for children that begins ‘A is for Acorn, B is for Buttercup, C is for Conker’; or one that begins ‘A is for Attachment, B is for Block-Graph, C is for Chatroom’?” Motion, the former poet laureate, said that “by discarding so many country and landscape-words from their Junior Dictionary, OUP deny children a store of words that is marvellous for its own sake, but also a vital means of connection and understanding.
(14) Like Princess Buttercup in The Princess Bride taking tentative steps into the Fire Swamp only to be immediately besieged by evils on all sides, Murdoch, instead of being attacked by Rodents of Unusual Size, found himself surrounded by strange Twitter accounts.
(15) Buttercup extract (BE), an extract of the buttercup plant (Zanthoriza simplicissima), inhibits RNA and DNA synthesis by HL-60 promyelocytic leukemia cells.
(16) Allelism at the duplex comb locus was studied by means of crosses between the Sicilian Buttercup and La Flèche breeds of chickens and two single combed breeds.
(17) All these possibilities were excluded except buttercup toxicosis with photosensitization secondary to hepatotoxicity.
(18) Why do you build me up, Buttercup, just to let me down?
(19) Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian We found a spot outside HSBC, sniggered at the irony, and I took a swig from my hip flask of hot water, honey and lemon, and another swig of Buttercup cough syrup before we kicked off.
(20) A presumptive diagnosis of buttercup toxicosis with photosensitization secondary to hepatotoxicity was made in an 18-mo-old Charolais heifer.