(n.) A fruit allied to the plum, of an orange color, oval shape, and delicious taste; also, the tree (Prunus Armeniaca of Linnaeus) which bears this fruit. By cultivation it has been introduced throughout the temperate zone.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have determined the complete nucleotide sequence of the copia element present at the white-apricot allele of the white locus in Drosophila melanogaster.
(2) Now I’ve found some of my favourite comedy here: the anarchic young sketch groups, Stewart Lee’s Top Gear bit, James Acaster’s bit on apricots and Daniel Sloss’s unapologetically dark atheist stuff spring to mind.
(3) Her brother has the dairy-free apricot and jasmine sorbet.
(4) SF2 has a C-terminal region rich in arginine-serine dipeptides, similar to the RS domains of the U1 snRNP 70K polypeptide and the Drosophila alternative splicing regulators transformer, transformer-2, and suppressor-of-white-apricot.
(5) The activity of wa is reduced in trans by a semidominant mutation in the gene Enhancer-of-white-apricot (E(wa).
(6) The software was devised in the windows environment for the Apricot Xen for maximum speed and intelligibility.
(7) Statistically significant differences (p less than 0.05) were found among the slopes of apricot and that of grape, guava, apple, and orange.
(8) The apricot allele of the white locus results from the insertion of the retrotransposon copia.
(9) There would be really fresh salads and brochettes (kebabs) for lunch, and lavish spreads in the evening, featuring lentil and bean dishes, lamb and apricot tagine, and relishes including a particularly delicious sultana chutney.
(10) All two-way combinations of mutations in these five loci, mottler of white (mw), suppressor of forked (su(f], suppressor of white apricot (su(wa], Enhancer of whiteapricot, (E(wa] and Darkener of apricot (Doa), are additive in their effects on wa, implying that each second-site modifier locus affects a different process.
(11) A simple colorimetric method is described for determining the quantity of hydrogen cyanide produced by the spontaneous decomposition of amygdalin in apricot kernels.
(12) The introduction of the white apricot eye colour mutation (wa) however, had a pronounced and deleterious effect on competitive ability.
(13) Lentil and apricot soup A winter favourite gets a summer makeover.
(14) Click here to buy a copy from the Guardian Bookshop for £17.50 Jose Pizarro’s duck breast with sherry vinegar and olive oil mashed potatoes Facebook Twitter Pinterest Romas Foord for the Observer Serves 4 floury potatoes 900g, peeled garlic 4 whole cloves, peeled bay leaf 1 black peppercorns 10 olive oil 6 tbsp salt and pepper sugar 25g sherry vinegar 4 tbsp palo cortado sherry 6 tbsp dried apricots 50g, finely chopped arrowroot ½ tsp duck breasts 4 x 200g, kept cold in the fridge right up until the time you need to use them For the mash, cut the potatoes into large chunks and place in a large pan with plenty of cold water.
(15) Add the lentils and apricots, then cover with water and bring to the boil.
(16) Three X-ray-induced revertants of white-apricot (wa) no longer respond to mw, indicating that the transposable element must be present for mw to act.
(17) Outside Kramatorsk's aerodrome, meanwhile, at the end of a rustic rutted alley lined with sycamores and apricots, protesters had set up a new camp.
(18) The overall potential for toxin production in the dried fruit was apricot greater than fig greater than pineapple greater than raisin.
(19) The local produce includes peaches, apricots and melons, all now in season, which sold at roadside stalls.
(20) Two alleles that exhibit dosage compensation between males and females (apricot, blood) also exhibit dosage compensation in metafemales.
Seed
Definition:
(pl. ) of Seed
(n.) A ripened ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or more integuments, or coverings; as, an apple seed; a currant seed. By germination it produces a new plant.
(n.) Any small seedlike fruit, though it may consist of a pericarp, or even a calyx, as well as the seed proper; as, parsnip seed; thistle seed.
(n.) The generative fluid of the male; semen; sperm; -- not used in the plural.
(n.) That from which anything springs; first principle; original; source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice.
(n.) The principle of production.
(n.) Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of Abraham; the seed of David.
(n.) Race; generation; birth.
(v. t.) To sprinkle with seed; to plant seeds in; to sow; as, to seed a field.
(v. t.) To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus, a dietary 'no observable effect level' for subchronic ingestion of C. obtusifolia seed in rats was less than 0.15%.
(2) Cells (1 x 10(5)) were seeded in 12- x -75-mm tissue culture tubes and incubated with various doses of IL-1 beta, IL-1 alpha, TNF-alpha, and IFN-gamma, alone or in specific combinations, for 15 min, two, 12, 24, and 72 h. PGE concentrations in the media were measured by radio-immunoassay.
(3) Cissus quadrangularis was mutagenic, while 'decoctions' of cumin seeds, aniseeds and ginger were not.
(4) The major protein component in seeds is storage protein.
(5) He fashioned alliances with France in the 1950s, and planted the seeds for Israel’s embryonic electronics and aircraft industries.
(6) Furthermore, the animals did not increase their intake of sunflower seeds, a preferred diet for hamsters.
(7) Although not yet characterized, glycinin-related genes could encode other glycinin subunit families whose members accumulate in minor amounts in seeds.
(8) A procedure for cultivation of the seed material for biosynthesis of eremomycin providing an increase in the antibiotic yield by 24 per cent was developed.
(9) At 10 weeks only the seeded grafts could be assessed because all of the control grafts had occluded.
(10) Cells dissociated from 6-day rat cerebellum were seeded on glass coverslips coated with polylysine on one half and hyaluronectin on the other.
(11) The observed signals from germinating seeds of Phaseolus aures and decaying leaves of Eucalyptus are presented to show that the signals have characteristic kinetics and intensity.
(12) The accumulation of the mRNA corresponding to a rice high pI alpha-amylase gene, OSamy-c, was stimulated 20-fold by exogenous GA3 in half-seeds lacking embryos.
(13) Previous work from this laboratory had shown that Leguminosa seed extracts contain lectin-bound proteins.
(14) We therefore surveyed patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) regarding early adult consumption of fruits and vegetables usually eaten raw, with seeds that are swallowed or scraped with the teeth.
(15) Y-79 cells, seeded into a Matrigel matrix, form round colonies over a 3-week period similar to those of control, weakly metastatic murine melanoma cells.
(16) During the procedure of coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG), the release of free oxygen radicals as a result of ischemia and reperfusion which plants the seeds of post-operative low cardiac output and arrhythmias has grave consequence on the reestablishment of cardiac function.
(17) Production of the vaccine basically consists in the multiplication of the working seed under standardized, well-defined conditions guaranteeing consistency of the vaccine lots.
(18) In cereals and legume seeds the activity of chymotrypsin inhibitors is generally lower than that of the trypsin inhibitors.
(19) The amino acid sequence of the smaller subunit of conglutin gamma, the simplest of the three globulins from the seeds of Lupinus angustifolius cv.
(20) Virus in the seed lot was not identified correctly, and the titer of homologous antiserum was mistakenly considered to be low as a result of neutralization tests conducted with the aggregated virus.