(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.
Thistle
Definition:
(n.) Any one of several prickly composite plants, especially those of the genera Cnicus, Craduus, and Onopordon. The name is often also applied to other prickly plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was the best of the opening three as Stefan Johansen, who became a champion for the second time in sixth months after winning the Norwegian top flight with Stromsgodset, exchanged passes with Griffiths before continuing his driving run and drilling the ball into the Thistle goal.
(2) It is concluded that, of the compounds identified, solstitialin A 13-acetate and cynaropicrin have toxic potential in cell cultures, containing cells from the substantia nigra of the rat, the specificity of action to cells of the substantia nigra remains to be shown, and that a toxic action in the midbrain may contribute to the nigro-pallidal encephalomalacia, caused by the ingestion of the yellow star thistle by horses.
(3) "It may be that thistle-cutting or spraying is unnecessary this summer because the caterpillars will defoliate them for you."
(4) That’s the hardest part of our job – to know that we can’t put them where they belong.” For context, Thistle notes that there used to be 640 beds in New Hampshire for treatment.
(5) Dairy farmer Dave Lawrence took the Guardian to the spot where the beavers are usually seen, close to an island in the river thick with nettles, willow and thistles.
(6) The reverse of the new coin shows the English rose, Welsh leek, Scottish thistle and Northern Irish shamrock emerging from one stem within a royal coronet – a design created by 15-year-old schoolboy David Pearce, who won a competition to create the image.
(7) We look forward to it, the gaffer will look forward to it, he will have a game plan and will try to get into the next round.” It was Thistle’s first defeat in seven games but their defender Danny Seaborne said they had been undone by a striker enjoying a great run of form.
(8) Thistle-tube-shaped pulps in the permanent teeth were observed in five patients.
(9) The first example is liquorice root, its active principle carbenoxolone, and the drugs Biogastrone and Caved-S for the treatment of gastic, peptic and duodenal ulcers; the second example is the fruits of the milk thistle, its active principles silymarin and silybinin as well as the drug Legalon for the treatment of liver diseases.
(10) One night in the Crown and Thistle pub in Northiam, Ajao flew into a row with a local, Piers Mott.
(11) Which is all well and good, but you’re intrigued to know what’s going on at Celtic Park, where Celtic are entertaining Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
(12) In 15 patients (13 women and two men) with cholesterol stones in the gall-bladder a special (Thistle) catheter was introduced into the gall-bladder under local anaesthesia by percutaneous transhepatic puncture.
(13) MB • Aberdeen move to within a point of Celtic after comeback at Partick Thistle • Steven Pye: when Aberdeen ruled Scottish football Facebook Twitter Pinterest Mathias Pogba moved from Crawley Town to Partick Thistle last summer but has found goals hard to come by north of the border.
(14) The floral-emblem £1 coins, which began last year with a rose for England and a daffodil for Wales, will continue with the addition of coins featuring a thistle for Scotland and a flax plant for Northern Ireland.
(15) At Glasgow's Thistle Hotel on Friday night a 22-piece Gaelic choir sang Highland Cathedral.
(16) Weeds elicit two levels of allergenicity, a high level by the Ragweeds and other members of the Asteraceae, and a much lower level by members of the families Amaranthaceae (Pigweed, Western Water Hemp), Chenopodiaceae (Lamb's Quarters, Kochia, and Russian Thistle), and Plantaginaceae (Plantain) in the St. Louis, Missouri area.
(17) Aberdeen moved to within one point of Premiership leaders Celtic after battling from behind to beat Partick Thistle 2-1 at Firhill.
(18) In sensitized individuals, Russian thistle floral bracts pierced the skin and stimulated an urticarial reaction.
(19) THE MOST ANCIENT AND MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE THISTLE The Rt Hon David Alexander Cospatrick Douglas-Home, the Earl of Home CVO, CBE.
(20) He remained 'Sir' Alec because he had been created a Knight of the Thistle in 1962.