(n.) A northern constellation, supposed to represent the mythical Andromeda.
(n.) A genus of ericaceous flowering plants of northern climates, of which the original species was found growing on a rock surrounded by water.
Example Sentences:
(1) Andromeda is the nearest large galaxy to our own Milky Way.
(2) Tom Neenan: The Andromeda Paradox Pleasance Dome, to 31 Aug Last year he made everyone jump because his show had two really scary bits in it.
(3) I don’t think an Andromeda strain will wipe out all humans.
(4) But "near" is a relative term in intergalactic space – the Andromeda galaxy is 2.5m light years away.
(5) If you take a look on a very clear night at the constellation of Andromeda, a little fuzzy patch of light is just visible with the naked eye.
(6) In addition, cosmic threats to our existence have always been with us, even thought it has taken us some time to notice: the collision of our galaxy, the Milky Way, with our nearest neighbour, Andromeda, for example, or the arrival of a black hole.
(7) "The sense that there's a bridge, that a hand can be extended, and you can step from the Earth, from the supermarket car park, into the Andromeda nebulae or whatever."
Virgo
Definition:
(n.) A sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of August, marked thus [/] in almanacs.
(n.) A constellation of the zodiac, now occupying chiefly the sign Libra, and containing the bright star Spica.
Example Sentences:
(1) We subjected individuals of four species of cranes (Anthropoides virgo, Balearica regulorum, Grus grus and Grus japonensis) to acute heat stress to investigate the effectiveness of this trait as a thermoregulatory adaptation.
(2) The HTLV-III Bio-EnzaBead (Litton Bionetics, Charleston, SC) was less sensitive and specific than the Abbott HTLV-III EIA (Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, IL) or the Virgo HTLV-III ELISA (Electro-Nucleonics Inc., Columbia, MD).
(3) The results showed that bromoacetamide was fairly effective against Ganesella virgo, the intermediate host of Dicrocoelium chinensis and Eurytrema pancreaticum.
(4) (Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands) Ms Elizabeth Virgo.
(5) Photograph: Tony Virgo Imagine There’s No Ben Target (It’s Easy If You Try) Heroes @ The Hive, to 30 Aug I hear that Ben Target is doing an art installation piece this year but it’s also comedy, that means I don’t know quite what to expect so I’m excited.
(6) It is proposed that Moraba virgo, the only all-female grasshopper, originated by hybridisation between two extant species P169 and P196.
(7) Such an origin accounts for M. virgo's peculiar karyotype and pattern of late replication.
(8) Two commercial monoclonal antibody kits (Virgo and Mikrotrak for the identification of Herpes simplex virus (HSV) have been assessed.
(9) The kits tested were 5 ELISAs: Roche Diagnostica (Basel), Hoechst Enzygnostic (Sao Paulo), Virgo Electronuclionics (Columbia MD), Organon Teknika (Boxtel, Netherlands), Salck Industria e Comercio de Produtos Biologicos (Sao Paulo), and a passive hemagglutination test, (Salck Ind), and indirect immunofluorescence IIF (Virgo electronucleonics, Columbia), a dot blot (Embrabio, Empressa Brasiliera de Biotecnologia Ltda, Sao Paolo) and Karpas AIDS cell test, Fujichemical Industries Ltd (Chokeiji, Takaoka, Japan).
(10) This study compared conventional viral isolation (VI) in cell cultures with a commercial product--Virgo antigen detection system--for the identification and typing of herpes simplex virus (HSV).
(11) November sees it speed through southern Virgo to pass 17 arcminutes N of Spica on the 18th when it may be a fifth magnitude naked eye object, though low in Britain's SE sky before dawn.
(12) This paper reports results of comparative analyses of relative variability carried out on the obligate thelytokous grasshopper Warramaba virgo (Key) and three closely related sexually reproducing species.
(13) "Nice to see, even in the heat of battle", intones John Virgo as though he's said it seventy-three billion times before.
(14) A case report on a 26-year-old virgo intacta with a long standing history of pruritus vulvi, obstructive pulmonary disease, and chronic diarrhea presenting with an invasive squamous carcinoma of the vulva in association with chronic malabsorption and T-lymphocyte deficiency.
(15) The Virgo kit identified 37 strains (57%) as HSV2, and did not identify the remaining 3 (5%).