(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).
Seed
Definition:
(pl. ) of Seed
(n.) A ripened ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or more integuments, or coverings; as, an apple seed; a currant seed. By germination it produces a new plant.
(n.) Any small seedlike fruit, though it may consist of a pericarp, or even a calyx, as well as the seed proper; as, parsnip seed; thistle seed.
(n.) The generative fluid of the male; semen; sperm; -- not used in the plural.
(n.) That from which anything springs; first principle; original; source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice.
(n.) The principle of production.
(n.) Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of Abraham; the seed of David.
(n.) Race; generation; birth.
(v. t.) To sprinkle with seed; to plant seeds in; to sow; as, to seed a field.
(v. t.) To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus, a dietary 'no observable effect level' for subchronic ingestion of C. obtusifolia seed in rats was less than 0.15%.
(2) Cells (1 x 10(5)) were seeded in 12- x -75-mm tissue culture tubes and incubated with various doses of IL-1 beta, IL-1 alpha, TNF-alpha, and IFN-gamma, alone or in specific combinations, for 15 min, two, 12, 24, and 72 h. PGE concentrations in the media were measured by radio-immunoassay.
(3) Cissus quadrangularis was mutagenic, while 'decoctions' of cumin seeds, aniseeds and ginger were not.
(4) The major protein component in seeds is storage protein.
(5) He fashioned alliances with France in the 1950s, and planted the seeds for Israel’s embryonic electronics and aircraft industries.
(6) Furthermore, the animals did not increase their intake of sunflower seeds, a preferred diet for hamsters.
(7) Although not yet characterized, glycinin-related genes could encode other glycinin subunit families whose members accumulate in minor amounts in seeds.
(8) A procedure for cultivation of the seed material for biosynthesis of eremomycin providing an increase in the antibiotic yield by 24 per cent was developed.
(9) At 10 weeks only the seeded grafts could be assessed because all of the control grafts had occluded.
(10) Cells dissociated from 6-day rat cerebellum were seeded on glass coverslips coated with polylysine on one half and hyaluronectin on the other.
(11) The observed signals from germinating seeds of Phaseolus aures and decaying leaves of Eucalyptus are presented to show that the signals have characteristic kinetics and intensity.
(12) The accumulation of the mRNA corresponding to a rice high pI alpha-amylase gene, OSamy-c, was stimulated 20-fold by exogenous GA3 in half-seeds lacking embryos.
(13) Previous work from this laboratory had shown that Leguminosa seed extracts contain lectin-bound proteins.
(14) 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.
(15) Y-79 cells, seeded into a Matrigel matrix, form round colonies over a 3-week period similar to those of control, weakly metastatic murine melanoma cells.
(16) During the procedure of coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG), the release of free oxygen radicals as a result of ischemia and reperfusion which plants the seeds of post-operative low cardiac output and arrhythmias has grave consequence on the reestablishment of cardiac function.
(17) Production of the vaccine basically consists in the multiplication of the working seed under standardized, well-defined conditions guaranteeing consistency of the vaccine lots.
(18) In cereals and legume seeds the activity of chymotrypsin inhibitors is generally lower than that of the trypsin inhibitors.
(19) The amino acid sequence of the smaller subunit of conglutin gamma, the simplest of the three globulins from the seeds of Lupinus angustifolius cv.
(20) Virus in the seed lot was not identified correctly, and the titer of homologous antiserum was mistakenly considered to be low as a result of neutralization tests conducted with the aggregated virus.