(n.) The Cynara scolymus, a plant somewhat resembling a thistle, with a dilated, imbricated, and prickly involucre. The head (to which the name is also applied) is composed of numerous oval scales, inclosing the florets, sitting on a broad receptacle, which, with the fleshy base of the scales, is much esteemed as an article of food.
(n.) See Jerusalem artichoke.
Example Sentences:
(1) Polyclonal antibodies were prepared against NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase purified from Jerusalem artichoke.
(2) Only trace levels of the bromopropylate residues (less than 0.01 ppm) were detected in the "hearts" of the artichokes.
(3) His charge sheet includes numerous assaults (one against a waiter who served him the wrong dish of artichokes); jail time for libelling a fellow painter, Giovanni Baglione, by posting poems around Rome accusing him of plagiarism and calling him Giovanni Coglione (“Johnny Bollocks”); affray (a police report records Caravaggio’s response when asked how he came by a wound: “I wounded myself with my own sword when I fell down these stairs.
(4) Puromycin at 10(-4)m very strongly inhibited the indoleacetic acid-induced growth of oat coleoptile and artichoke tuber sections and exerted a less powerful effect on pea stem sections.
(5) At boiling, the most utilized method, the variations of weight according to the weight before cooking are very important extending from + 10 p. 100, for Brussel sprouts and fresh flageolets at--25 p. 100 and--36 p. 100 for lettuce and endive, the last of weight being the highest for fine leaves vegetables, lesser for roots and tubers, and around zero for artichokes, french beans, cauliflower, aubergines.
(6) Official advice on low-fat diet and cholesterol is wrong, says health charity Read more Artichokes are still a Roman delicacy, and when it comes to diet in Renaissance and baroque Italian art, this is a clue.
(7) Enjoy tapas – grilled artichoke, skewers of chicken, grilled prawns, cheese or salty hot pork on warm bread – while standing at the marble bar, or raciones at a table round the back.
(8) The counters of bars and restaurants in Tudela are laden with fresh produce, from artichokes to peppers and borrage to pochas (a variety of haricot bean).
(9) It's the stuff of foodie fantasy: heaps of purple artichokes spill over piles of grooved and polished heritage tomatoes the colour of a newly painted post box.
(10) Three NADPH-cyt c reductases have been resolved from Jerusalem artichoke tuber microsomes by chromatography on Reactive Red Agarose and Concanavalin A-Sepharose.
(11) Epicoccum was recovered in the north end of the Salinas valley in low numbers throughout the year and was strongly associated with the strawberry and artichoke harvest.
(12) Whole cells of C. cladosporioides were used for batch fructose production from Jerusalem artichoke extract at several concentrations.
(13) The stimulation of succinate-cytochrome c reductase in Jerusalem artichoke mitochondria by lowering osmolarity was found to be associated with conformational changes in the inner membrane rather than with rupture of the outer membrane.
(14) Cinnamic acid 4-hydroxylase (CA4H) was purified from microsomes of manganese-induced Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus L.) tuber tissues.
(15) The French president "eats everything" except caviar, truffles and lobster, and doesn't like cabbage, artichokes or asparagus much, according to a former chef who spent 40 years cooking for six French heads of state from Georges Pompidou to the incumbent, François Hollande .
(16) The N-terminal sequence of C4H from soybean shows high similarity to the N-terminus of C4H from Jerusalem artichoke.
(17) A transfructosylase was separated from Jerusalem artichoke-tuber extracts.
(18) The oxidation of NADH or succinate by Jerusalem-artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus L.) mitochondria in the presence of chlortetracycline induced an increase in chlortetracycline fluorescence.
(19) Seventeen ambulant outpatients with familial Type IIa or Type IIb hyperlipoproteinaemia were treated with Cynarin, the 1,5-dicaffeyl ester of quinic acid, the constituent of the artichoke (Cynara scolymus).
(20) Mark Diacono Mark Diacono, River Cottage head gardener Growing edible perennials rather than annuals is probably the best move you could make: vegetables and fruit, such as rhubarb, asparagus, artichokes and green leafy veg, have their engine rooms set up and are more resilient to any changes.
Cardoon
Definition:
(n.) A large herbaceous plant (Cynara Cardunculus) related to the artichoke; -- used in cookery and as a salad.
Example Sentences:
(1) As Margaret Visser notes in The Rituals of Dinner (my go-to book on the subject of table manners), the chamber into which a medieval lord withdrew from his hall to eat his stag pie and cardoons was a forerunner of our living rooms and, by about 1450, increasingly exclusive, used by only the most important of men.