(n.) A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), which is believed to be in all cases its true origin. In color it is white, ash-gray, yellow, or black, and often variegated like marble. The floating masses are sometimes from sixty to two hundred and twenty-five pounds in weight. It is wholly volatilized as a white vapor at 212¡ Fahrenheit, and is highly valued in perfumery.
Example Sentences:
(1) The island that took the top spot in the best in the world category was Ambergris Caye in Belize, a tiny island beside the second largest coral reef on the planet, which attracts divers and snorkellers.
(2) A couple walk along the beach on the island of Ambergris Caye, Belize.
(3) After sampling her tea – this absurdly precious, unerringly pretentious, wholly underwhelming ambergris spewed from the belly of a corporate leviathan – I can only wish that karma back on her.
(4) Lesions included heavy combative scarring of the head, grossly roughened and thickened skin on the lower left flank, cutaneous maculae, genital papillomatosis, partial duodenal obstruction by plastic debris, colo-rectal obstruction by ambergris, cystic degeneration of the right kidney, and a deeply ulcerative gastric nematodiasis.
(5) Even sperm whale excretions – in the form of ambergris – are the most valuable natural substances known to us, still used as a fixative in high-fashion perfumes.
(6) The compound ambrein was isolated from ambergris, which is commonly used as an analgesic in the Saudi folklore medicine.
Waxy
Definition:
(a.) Resembling wax in appearance or consistency; viscid; adhesive; soft; hence, yielding; pliable; impressible.
Example Sentences:
(1) The aim of the trial was to determine the effectiveness of aspirin in preventing cardiovascular problems in people with asymptomatic atherosclerosis – the undetected build-up of waxy plaque deposits on the inside of blood vessels.
(2) He made his way to a spot on the cobblestones not far from the marble mausoleum housing the waxy corpse of Vladimir Lenin , and began to undress.
(3) The neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses are clinical disorders associated with the accumulation of autofluorescent waxy pigments within cells of several different tissues.
(4) However, the cloned rice waxy gene contained base substitution mutations.
(5) The development of new heterowaxy or waxy sorghum hybrids may further increase sorghum feed efficiency.
(6) In the presence of both intact and disrupted amyloplasts an artificial preprotein (TP30), consisting of the waxy transit peptide plus the first 34 amino acids of the mature waxy protein fused in-frame to the beta-glucuronidase of Escherichia coli, is processed to the size expected when the transit peptide is cleaved off.
(7) The waxy exudates decreased in 11 patients (39.29%) and increased in 8 patients (28.57%).
(8) Based on these findings a hypothesis for the development of waxy degeneration is proposed: locally defects of the plasmamembrane cause segmental contracture, glycogen granules and water soluble enzymes are lost through holes in the plasma membrane, and finally the affected fibre segment becomes necrotic.
(9) Acid hydrolyzates of waxy-maize starch were separated to give Fractions I, II, and III [T. Watanabe, and D. French, Carbohydr.
(10) To study the effect of the degree of chain branching, waxy starch, containing 98% amylopectin, was compared with high amylose starch, containing 30% amylopectin, and normal crystalline starch, containing 74% amylopectin.
(11) Homology between the previously cloned maize waxy gene and the rice gene has facilitated our cloning of a 15-kb HindIII fragment that contains the entire rice gene.
(12) We report, however, the presence of maltose in waxy extracts, a disaccharide otherwise supposed to be absent in this genotype.
(13) In 3 cases additionally appeared: waxy pallor of optic disc, vascular narrowing, reflexless hypoplastic macula, pigmentless periphery, acquired blue-yellow blindness, concentric limitation of the visual field, reduced darkadaptation, abolished electroretinogram and myopic astigmatism.
(14) During oviposition, the inner cuticular layer unfolds and inflates into a pair of balloonlike structures that evert through the organ external aperture to receive and manipulate each egg as it is laid, coating it with a waxy layer that prevents desiccation.
(15) SDS-PAGE analysis of proteins bound to endosperm starch granules in the normal plants revealed a single band with a Mr of 60 kd, whereas waxy plants did not exhibit a similar band.
(16) The molecular basis for the unusual phenotype conditioned by the waxy(Wx)-m5 Ds allele has been elucidated.
(17) We demonstrate that these gene products are altered in rice strains containing mutant waxy genes.
(18) This tradition of what academics call "dark tourism" endures today: there is something morbid about peering at Amy Winehouse's skinny but healthily waxy arms.
(19) Eight patients developed a syndrome marked by features of catatonia (including posturing, waxy flexibility, withdrawal and regression) and parkinsonism (including bradykinesia and rigidity) while receiving high-potency neuroleptic drugs.
(20) Advanced cheiroarthropathy with shining waxy skin was diagnosed in 41 patients (group I).