(n.) A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results are consistent with an action of banana tree juice on the molecule responsible for excitation-contraction coupling in skeletal muscle, resulting in a labilization of intracellular Ca2+.
(2) By simultaneously pushing the foot bar and pulling the hand bar, the monkey lifts a weight and triggers a microswitch which releases a banana-flavored food pellet into a well close to the animal's mouth.
(3) "The UK is not a banana republic and we do ourselves no favours whatsoever by appearing to behave like one".
(4) He told one journalist to “visit the ear doctor” and threw a banana skin at the head of a cameraman.
(5) In short, it is alleged that under his rule Sri Lanka is becoming a nasty, authoritarian quasi-rogue banana republic.
(6) The amount of banana starch not hydrolyzed and absorbed from the human small intestine and therefore passing into the colon may be up to 8 times more than the NSP present in this food and depends on the state of ripeness when the fruit is eaten.
(7) Bananas are a staple crop in the region and so controlling the disease would directly enhance food security.
(8) Responding by squirrel monkeys was maintained under a 30-response fixed-ratio schedule of food presentation; during different sessions responding produced either sucrose-flavored or banana-flavored food pellets.
(9) Ahmed Dirie, independent research consultant, San Jose, US Release Africa's farmlands from cash crops : East Africa exports coffee, tea, flowers, banana and livestock but faces recurrent droughts and food shortages.
(10) This article examines a remarkable case of massive sterilization of approximately 1,500 workers in Costa Rica, due to exposure to a toxic nematicide called DBCP 1,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane), applied in large commercial banana plantations.
(11) It’s worth resisting the allure of unnecessary online purchases, one banana at a time.
(12) With the Gulf of Cádiz and the Atlantic beyond being among Europe’s most fertile marine areas, and a climate where mangoes and bananas thrive, visitors eat extremely well – and surprisingly cheaply – here.
(13) The foundation's chief executive, Michael Gidney, compared the price of a banana that has been shipped in from the Caribbean or Central America to the 20p paid for an apple grown in Britain.
(14) Look, you can see it here," he says, pointing to a long, low, flat plateau that barely rises above the palms, banana plants and rubber trees that skirt the road and hug the traditional stilted timber houses dotting the lush emerald-green countryside.
(15) The school's new campus opened last September as part of the – now abolished – Building Schools for the Future programme, and a distinctive Super Lamb Banana statue stands outside the reception.
(16) I often find a pile of banana skins in my car at the end of the week.
(17) Histamine, tyramine, noradrenaline, serotonin and other pressor amines occur in fruits and fermented foods such as bananas, pineapples, cheese and wine.
(18) Gidney said banana farmers had suffered because they were less able to publicise their plight from far overseas.
(19) She reminds me of the time David was ridiculed for being photographed grinning inanely with a banana.
(20) Ticketed attractions include the small zoo (family ticket £29) and “ banana bikes ” for hire (£10 an hour).
Cake
Definition:
(n.) A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.
(n.) A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.
(n.) A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.
(n.) A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake.
(v. i.) To form into a cake, or mass.
(v. i.) To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate.
(v. i.) To cackle as a goose.
Example Sentences:
(1) "With hyperspectral imaging, you can tell the chemical content of a cake just by taking a photo of it.
(2) Okawa, who became the world's oldest person last June following the death at 116 of fellow Japanese Jiroemon Kimura , was given a cake with just three candles at her nursing home in Osaka – one for each figure in her age.
(3) The physical effects of chlorination as demonstrated by experiments with batters and cakes and by physicochemical observations of flour and its fractions are also considered.
(4) You’d be staggered by the number of dimwitted debutantes who stand for photos next to cakes iced with the famous double-C. You know how you wanted a Spider-Man cake when you were little, and your mum made you Spider-Man cake, and it was the happiest birthday of your life?
(5) About 35 million were egg-laying hens that provided 80% of the eggs for the breaker market – eggs broken then liquefied, dried or frozen to be used in processed foods like mayonnaise and pancake mixes, or sold to bakeries to make cakes, cookies and other products.
(6) On the programme, the bakes begin to become divorced from their function as food; they become symbols, like the cardboard cakes that were sometimes used at British weddings during the war when shortages ruled out the real thing.
(7) Layer Cake was credited as Craig’s audition for James Bond.
(8) There's squash and cake, and the atmosphere is a bit like a staff meeting, something the teenagers don't have much experience of.
(9) The Norwegian researchers looked at all the sources of caffeine ingested by the pregnant women, including coffee, tea and fizzy drinks, along with cakes and desserts containing cocoa (which has lots of caffeine).
(10) When it comes to Donald Trump, the cake is baked, and almost everything that happens – negative or positive – only serves to reinforce existing perceptions of the candidates.
(11) Female undergraduates (N = 50 and N = 46 in the two studies) were given cards containing the names of randomly-selected generic foods (e.g., cakes, melons) and were asked to "group the foods according to how you think about them when it comes to eating them".
(12) At stake: rice cakes, a gift basket, and a somewhat condescending hockey puck.
(13) In general, healthy panelists evaluated the cakes as sweeter, crust bitterness as greater, and overall eating quality as higher than the panel members with carbohydrate metabolic disorders.
(14) To make the ricotta cakes, separate the egg yolks from the whites, putting the whites into a bowl large enough to beat them in.
(15) But what started out as a simple, easy to collect tax – a low, flat rate imposed on most goods and services – has become increasingly complex, with exemptions for everything from children's clothes to Jaffa Cakes.
(16) Today, with published documents augmented by journalistic and academic research, we can see exactly how the Maastricht cake was baked.
(17) Percentage dry matter of the litter and a subjective evaluation of general litter conditions (moisture and caking) were scored weekly, with the percentage nitrogen and total quality of litter produced in each chamber measured at the conclusion of the study.
(18) Sensory evaluation indicated no significant differences (P less than 0.05) between the control and 10 per cent bran cakes for moistness, flavor, and overall acceptability.
(19) Bonus recipe: stress-free custard I was taught how to make this by Claire Ptak, who runs Violet Cakes in east London.
(20) At a recent rally in Dresden, Bachmann’s hometown, he told his followers that while asylum seekers enjoyed luxury accommodation, many impoverished German pensioners were “unable to even afford a single slice of Stollen” (German Christmas cake).