What's the difference between aril and yew?

Aril


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Arillus

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Aril 3 kg of fenitrothion per ha is necessary, if tick control is to be ensured until the appearance of the new generation, i.e.
  • (2) The first mass blood pressure screeing in a major metropolitan area was conducted in New Orleans on Aril 28 and 29, 1973.
  • (3) (Leguminosae) (arils) were acquired as part of a continuing search for high-intensity natural sweeteners of plant origin.
  • (4) To determine the source of contamination, the HG-A content in the ackee fruit components (aril, seeds, and husks) at various stages of ripeness was determined by a method using an amino acid analyzer.
  • (5) From February to Aril thickening of the seminiferous epithelium and appearance of spermatozoa in the caput epididymidis signalled re-establishment of sperm production.
  • (6) Between Aril 1975 and December 1976, the second nationwide survey of Meniere's disease in Japan was made by the 17 members of the Meniere's Disease Research Committee of Japan.
  • (7) The present paper reports the chemopreventive action of mace (aril covering the testa of the seed of Myristica fragrans) on 3-methylcholanthrene (MCA)-induced carcinogenesis in the uterine cervix of virgin, young adult, Swiss albino mice.
  • (8) Mace which is the aril of the fruit of Myristica fragrans HOUTT, has been used in Indonesian folk medicine as aromatic stomachics, analgesics, a medicine for rheumatism, etc.
  • (9) Callus cultures of Taxus cuspidata and Taxus canadensis were induced using different tissue explants including green and red arils, seed contents, young stems and needles.
  • (10) The protease has also been identified in crude aril extracts by affinity labelling with iodo[14C]acetate.
  • (11) A mixture of isophytohemagglutinins has been isolated from the fleshy arils of the spindle tree seeds (Evonymus europaea L.) by fractional precipitation of the saline extract of the arils by (NH4)2SO4 at a 0.40% saturation.
  • (12) Thaumatopain has been purified by ion-exchange chromatography from arils, and is a monomeric protein of Mr 30,000.
  • (13) To remove the arils, roll the fruit firmly over a hard surface, then cut in half, push up the base slightly to loosen, then hold over a large bowl and whack sharply with a wooden spoon to dislodge the seeds.
  • (14) Aqueous extracts of the aril of the seed of Thaumatococcus daniellii contain, in addition to the intensely sweet protein thaumatin, a cysteine protease that we have termed thaumatopain.
  • (15) The present paper reports the chemopreventive property of mace (aril covering the seed of Myristica fragrans) on DMBA-induced papillomagenesis in the skin of male Swiss albino mice.

Yew


Definition:

  • (v. i.) See Yaw.
  • (n.) An evergreen tree (Taxus baccata) of Europe, allied to the pines, but having a peculiar berrylike fruit instead of a cone. It frequently grows in British churchyards.
  • (n.) The wood of the yew. It is light red in color, compact, fine-grained, and very elastic. It is preferred to all other kinds of wood for bows and whipstocks, the best for these purposes coming from Spain.
  • (n.) A bow for shooting, made of the yew.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to yew trees; made of the wood of a yew tree; as, a yew whipstock.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lee Kuan Yew with Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington in 2009.
  • (2) The investigational antineoplastic agent, taxol, a natural product from the yew, Taxus sp.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lee Kuan Yew, right, and his wife, Kwa Geok Choo, second left, posing with the Japanese Emperor Hirohito and his wife Empress Nagako, in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in 1968.
  • (4) A 40-year-old patient attempted suicide by drinking an extract made from 120 g of yew needles.
  • (5) One feels alone but not lonely amid the tall centuries-old ash, beech, birch, oak and yew, and the woodland is well preserved and conserved.
  • (6) Christine Cole Northampton • I think Philip Bowring almost completely misses the point in his obituary of Lee Kuan Yew.
  • (7) Lee Kuan Yew’s grip on Singapore | Letters Read more Ethnic prejudice lurked just under Lee’s image of technocratic rationalism.
  • (8) Presently, taxol is derived from the bark of the Pacific yew, Taxus brevifolia, a small, slow-growing evergreen tree native to the northwestern United States.
  • (9) Standing in the shade of a 1,000-year-old yew tree at the front of St Mary's church in Harmondsworth, Ken Hughes says he knows how locals will react if the latest extension plans at Heathrow come to fruition.
  • (10) The whole “father of Singapore” image has often been taken far too literally, but Lee Kuan Yew’s governing style was nothing if not paternalistic.
  • (11) Four prisoners drank a decoction of yew (Taxus baccata) needles containing the toxic alkaloid taxine++ B.
  • (12) Taxol is a chemotherapeutic drug which acts by stabilizing microtubules, preventing normal mitosis and resulting in a block of the cell cycle at G2 and M. The drug is isolated from the yew, Taxus sp.
  • (13) Data from the literature concerning the toxicity of yew and some (traditional) uses of yew are reported.
  • (14) In Singapore, however, where a hodgepodge mix of ethnic Chinese, Malay and Indian residents actively aim to maintain what the nation's "founder", Lee Kuan Yew, has termed "racial harmony", supporters are hard to come by.
  • (15) Lee Kuan Yew’s grip on Singapore | Letters Read more Voting in Singapore is compulsory.
  • (16) To many Singaporeans, and indeed others too, Lee Kuan Yew was Singapore ,” he said.
  • (17) Songbirds chatter in the intertwining branches of a yew walk planted over 500 years ago.
  • (18) Singapore’s founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, who led the city-state for more than three decades, has died aged 91.
  • (19) Few have demonstrated such complete commitment to a cause greater than themselves.” This article was amended on Monday 23 March 2015 to correct a misspelling of Lee Kuan Yew’s name and to correct the time of the announcement of his death.
  • (20) The passing of a giant like Lee Kuan Yew is the end of an era,” Bishop told Sky News.

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