(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).
Kangaroo
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of jumping marsupials of the family Macropodidae. They inhabit Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands, They have long and strong hind legs and a large tail, while the fore legs are comparatively short and feeble. The giant kangaroo (Macropus major) is the largest species, sometimes becoming twelve or fourteen feet in total length. The tree kangaroos, belonging to the genus Dendrolagus, live in trees; the rock kangaroos, of the genus Petrogale, inhabit rocky situations; and the brush kangaroos, of the genus Halmaturus, inhabit wooded districts. See Wallaby.
Example Sentences:
(1) After injection of tranylcypromine (a MAO inhibitor), spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) which had been previously infused with norepinephrine (NE) for 14 days displayed stroke-related behaviour including kangaroo-like posture, seizures and death.
(2) Chromosome orientation and behavior during prometaphase of mitosis in PtK1 rat kangaroo cells were investigated by cinémicrography and electron microscopy.
(3) Middle ear morphology and behavioural observations of kangaroo rats jumping vertically to avoid predation by owls and rattlesnakes support this view.
(4) Water-perfused thermodes were chronically implanted around the preoptic nuclei and hypothalamus (POH) of kangaroo rats (Dipodomys ingens).
(5) A tooth fragment from the kangaroo traversed the orbit, lodging intracranially.
(6) It was about defending their right to practise and teach culture, like hunting kangaroo.
(7) Myoglobin(IV), the derivative of myoglobin at the formal oxidation state IV, prepared from kangaroo (Megaleia rufa), horse, or sperm whale myoglobin, when cooled to liquid nitrogen temperature, assumes acid and alkaline forms with different optical spectra.
(8) We conclude that, for its size, the kangaroo rat has disproportionately large hindlimb muscles, tendons and bones to withstand the large forces associated with rapid acceleration to avoid predation, which limits their ability to store and recover elastic strain energy.
(9) In the present study we measured the bleeding times in fourteen Aborigines (10 diabetic, 4 non-diabetic) before and after 2 weeks on a diet of tropical seafood (rich in both arachidonic acid and the omega 3 PUFA), followed by 3 weeks on a diet in which kangaroo and freshwater fish (linoleic and arachidonic acid-rich) were the major fat sources.
(10) Occasionally, I have been invited to try exotic meats, ostrich say, or kangaroo or alligator.
(11) Serial histological sections of kangaroo rats of postnatal ages 0-, 3-, 7-, 10-, and 14-days were prepared and studied.
(12) If we can show that renewable energy is technically and economically viable for Kangaroo Island, it would be a powerful precedent for communities around Australia who are seeking to develop their own renewable energy.
(13) Autoimmune serum from a patient with scleroderma was shown by indirect immunofluorescence to label nucleoli in a variety of cells tested including: rat kangaroo PtK2, Xenopus A6, 3T3, HeLa, and human peripheral blood lymphocytes.
(14) TeBG in the kangaroo substantiates the primitiveness of the protein in the mammal line and its absence in certain orders and species of eutherian mammals must represent a secondary loss.
(15) There is evidence that the plains kangaroo, though generally abundant at the present time, is vulnerable to competitive displacement by sheep, cattle, rabbits, and, in one region, by the hill kangaroo when it invades the plains.
(16) They were Red and Grey Kangaroos, Wallaroo, Tammar Wallaby, Brush-tailed possum, Potoroo, and Brown Marsupial Mouse.
(17) Kangaroo, the online TV joint venture with BBC Worldwide and Channel 4, is "unlikely to contribute meaningful revenue until 2009", according to Lehman Brothers.
(18) n. is described from the red kangaroo (Macropus rufus) from New South Wales, Australia.
(19) DNA from the kangaroo rat, Dipodomys ordii, contains a 3.3-kb, highly repeated sequence that is interspersed throughout the genome in small tandem clusters.
(20) Authentic involucrin protein was expressed in Chinese hamster ovarian (CHO) cells (fibroblasts), PtK2 rat kangaroo kidney cells (simple epithelial), and rat epidermal keratinocytes (stratifying squamous epithelial).