(n.) The pulpy fruit of Persea gratissima, a tree of tropical America. It is about the size and shape of a large pear; -- called also avocado pear, alligator pear, midshipman's butter.
Example Sentences:
(1) ENDAFS is proposed to be a member of subgroup 1 of family E endoglucanases, of which endoglucanases from Thermomonospora fusca and Persea americana (avocado) are also members.
(2) A polypeptide with a molecular mass of 51 kDa gives in a western blot a strong cross-reaction with an antibody raised against a maturation cellulase from avocado fruit.
(3) The plus and minus RNAs of the 247 nt avocado sunblotch viroid (ASBV) undergo site specific RNA self-cleavage reactions in vitro.
(4) Unlike my little brother, who used to store his peas in his cheeks like a hamster – he would then ask to be allowed to go to the loo where he would spit and flush – I always liked vegetables as a child (and yes, I know that, technically, avocado is a fruit; but its savoury qualities are such that I am going to count it, in this instance, as a vegetable).
(5) The recent trends in the possible use of irradiation as an alternative treatment to chemical fumigants for disinfestation of citrus and avocados and the prospects for the future application of irradiation for preservation of some of these fruits are outlined.
(6) However, a segment of approximately one-third of the PLMVd sequence has the elements required to form in the RNAs of both polarities the hammerhead structures proposed to act in the in vitro self-cleavage of avocado sunblotch viroid (ASBVd) and some satellite RNAs.
(7) We propose therefore that it be placed in a separate family, P450LXXI, and that the corresponding gene from avocado be named cyp71A1.
(8) All strains examined were agglutinated by the protein-reactive agglutinins of Mangifera indica (mango) and Persea americana (avocado) and a large proportion was also agglutinated by the carbohydrate-reactive lectins of Canavalia ensiformis (Jack bean) and Triticum vulgaris (wheat germ).
(9) E4 shows 44% identity to an avocado cellulase, while E5 belongs to the Bacillus cellulase family.
(10) Avocado sunblotch viroid (ASBV) is a 247-nucleotide, single-stranded, circular RNA.
(11) In quieter moments she tends her avocado garden, which she forced her mother to transport to the hospital.
(12) A group of eight new long-chain aliphatic compounds recently isolated from the avocado and some derivatives thereof were tested for antibacterial activity on 13 different species of bacteria and a yeast.
(13) He is one of life’s natural addicts – not just drugs, but sex, work, success, avocado on toast.
(14) The range of fatty acids formed by preparations of ultrasonically ruptured avocado mesocarp plastids was dependent on the substrate.
(15) When Charlotte Roche had her debut novel published in 2008 she scandalised Germany's book world with a tale about a teenager sent to hospital for an intimate shaving injury who spends her days masturbating with an avocado stone.
(16) The effect of various avocado and soybean oils on collagen metabolism in the liver was studied in growing female rats for 8 weeks and in day-old chicks for 1 week.
(17) Avocado sunblotch viroid (ASBV) has been detected down to a level of about 20 pg per gram fresh weight of leaves by the use of a dot-blot hybridization procedure and partially purified nucleic acid extracts.
(18) To make the guacamole, peel the avocado, remove the stone, and mash in a bowl with a little salt and pepper and the lime juice.
(19) Over my week in the Netherlands, I’d tried other delicacies: locust tabbouleh; chicken crumbed in buffalo worms; bee larvae ceviche; tempura-fried crickets; rose beetle larvae stew; soy grasshoppers; chargrilled sticky rice with wasp paste; buffalo worm, avocado and tomato salad; a cucumber, basil and locust drink; and a fermented, Asian-style dipping sauce made from grasshoppers and mealworms.
(20) Instead, they call for a return to “whole foods” such as meat, fish and dairy, as well as high-fat, healthy foods including avocados, arguing: “Eating fat does not make you fat.” The report – which has caused a huge backlash among the scientific community – also argues that saturated fat does not cause heart disease while full-fat dairy, including milk, yoghurt and cheese, can actually protect the heart.
Fruit
Definition:
(v. t.) Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; -- commonly used in the plural.
(v. t.) The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3.
(v. t.) The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it.
(v. t.) The spore cases or conceptacles of flowerless plants, as of ferns, mosses, algae, etc., with the spores contained in them.
(v. t.) The produce of animals; offspring; young; as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body.
(v. t.) That which is produced; the effect or consequence of any action; advantageous or desirable product or result; disadvantageous or evil consequence or effect; as, the fruits of labor, of self-denial, of intemperance.
(v. i.) To bear fruit.
Example Sentences:
(1) The recent rise in manufacturing has been welcomed by George Osborne as a sign that his economic policies are bearing fruit.
(2) 4) Parents imagined that fruit drinks, carbonated beverages and beverages with lactic acid promoted tooth decay.
(3) Severe fruit rot of guava due to Phytophthora nicotianae var.
(4) Instead, they say, we should only eat plenty of lean meat and fish, with fruit and raw vegetables on the side.
(5) Fruiting revertants of these strains accumulate wild-type levels of alpha-mannosidase-1 activity, suggesting that both the enzymatic and morphological defects are caused by single mutations in nonstructural genes essential for early development.
(6) Further evidence showing that the fruit of the black nightshade contains acetylcholine was obtained by chromatographic separation of the aqueous extract.
(7) Strong positive associations were found in both sexes for low fruit and vegetable consumption, high intake of salted meat and "mate" ingestion.
(8) 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.
(9) Phil Barlow Nottingham • Reading about the problems caused by a lack of toilets reminded me of the harvest camps my father’s Birmingham school organised in the Vale of Evesham during the war, where the sixth-formers spent weeks picking fruit and vegetables on farms.
(10) Scott insisted he was an abstract painter in the way he felt Chardin was too: the pans and fruit were uninteresting in themselves; they were merely "the means of making a picture", which was a study in space, form and colour.
(11) It is not likely that this is going to be fruitful.
(12) Dietary recommendations for cancer prevention advise reduced intake of fat; increased intake of fruits, vegetables, and grains; and moderate intake of alcohol and salt-cured, salt-pickled, and smoked foods.
(13) The latest filed accounts show Coates and her family have started to enjoy the fruits of their labour, sharing almost £75m in dividends over three years.
(14) During development of tomato fruit, most DNA-protein interactions in the rbcS promoter regions disappear, coincident with the transcriptional inactivation of the rbcS genes.
(15) Four years on from that speech, his strategy is bearing fruit – in a less than palatable way.
(16) (2) The Bunsen-Roscoe Law of Reciprocity was found to hold for the photoinduction of fruiting bodies for the interval 36 to 2000 sec with light of 448 nm.
(17) However, the tip cells are slow to differentiate, and hence immature fruiting bodies contain a small population of undifferentiated tip cells.
(18) The data suggest that a learning approach to the origins of attentional biases in anxious subjects might be fruitful.
(19) From Tuesday, the Neckarsulm-based grocer will be the official supplier of water, fish, fruit and vegetables for Roy Hodgson’s boys under a multimillion-pound three-year deal with the Football Association.
(20) In order to uncover the role of G proteins in the integrative functioning and development of the nervous system, we have begun a multidisciplinary study of the G proteins present in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.