(n.) A genus of plants, mostly of tropical America, many species of which are grown as ornamental plants. The leaves are curiously one-sided, and often exhibit brilliant colors.
Example Sentences:
(1) The branched trisaccharide, 2-O-(beta-D-glucopyranosyl)-6-O-(alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl)-D-glucopyranos e (2), is regarded as the sugar moiety of an anthocyanin pigment isolated from the fruits and flowers of certain Begonia, Clivia, Rubus, Prunus, and Ribis species.
(2) In a big plant nursery and in hobby gardeners we found 8 cases of pollinosis to cyclamens, 3 to begonia, 1 to gloriosa rothschildiana and 1 to several kinds of lilies.
(3) Using single linkage method of association, the strains fall into a major group formed by pathovars undulosa, translucens, secalis, hordei, pelargonii, hederae, pruni, cucurbitae, zinniae, citri, holcicola, vesicatoria, juglandis, campestris and begoniae, clustered at a similarity level of 76.5%.
(4) Antiserum to human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) caused marked inhibition of adventitious rooting of Begonia semperflorens and Chrysanthemum morifolium stem cuttings.
(5) His wife, Susan Olley, who was buying begonias, geraniums and verbenas for her beds, feared the time may come for the watering can.
(6) Back home, if you do move a snail the full 20 metres from your garden, how long will it take to return to munch on your prize begonias?
(7) Two evenings later on Taksim Square, the anti-government protest movement, battered but unbowed after being tear-gassed, beaten and hosed out of the adjacent Gezi Park to make way for freshly planted begonias, adopted a new peaceful ruse.
Trowel
Definition:
(n.) A mason's tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
(n.) A gardener's tool, somewhat like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring the earth, etc.
(n.) A tool used for smoothing a mold.
Example Sentences:
(1) In organ culture systems using the Trowell setup, morphogenetic differentiation (which largely mimics the development reached in vivo within 2--3 days) can be obtained in limb buds of mouse embryos during a culture period of 6 days.
(2) They have buckets and trowels as they're going clamming, and Popeye leaves first, navigating the sand with a gratifyingly bandy gait.
(3) Anything, really, to trowel vaseline over the lens for a soft ESPN Sunday NFL Countdown segment.
(4) Molar tooth germs from 17-d-old mouse embryos were cultivated in a Trowell-type culture, and different culture media were tested for their ability to support enamel formation.
(5) Based on the morphologic and physiologic findings, it became evident that this organ culture system using Trowell T8 medium at 25 degrees C can be successfully used as an in vitro experimental model for as long as 24 h. The organ culture system could be a useful tool, from the structural integrity of ceca observed in this study, in investigating mucosal function and mucosal response to drugs, carcinogens, trophic factors, and pathogens.
(6) Photograph: Martin Godwin for The Guardian Not that he wants to harp back to the days when he went to work with a trowel.
(7) We incubated mouse calvaria explants in Trowell-type organ culture dishes for one h and then added [14C]-glycine for two h. We dissected the interparietal sutural tissues for collagen solubilization by limited pepsin digestion.
(8) This rate is similar to that reported for Trowell's-type cultures with IMEM:F12 medium and 1% FBS.
(9) Colons from chickens, four weeks old, can best be maintained for 48 hours in a serum-free organ culture system using Trowell T8 medium-agar sheet at 25 degrees C. As determined by light microscopy as well as scanning and transmission electron microscopies, mucosal architecture involving classical ultrastructure of chicken colonic mucosa was preserved.
(10) Both series were incubated in BGJb medium according to the Trowell method.
(11) The cartoon shows a menacing looking Netanyahu wielding a blood-splattered trowel, bricking screaming Palestinians into the wall's structure.
(12) Finance minister Mathias Cormann lays it on with a trowel.
(13) Pancreatic explants from perinatal or 1-week-old rat circumfusion organ cultured with an insulin-free variant of Trowell's Medium T8 survive functionally, as judged from tissue amylase content, for about 3 days.
(14) We used Trowell's T8 medium and conventional Hank's balanced salt solution to obtain high yields of islets with morphologically-intact cells.
(15) This study was carried out to investigate the efficacy of cyclosporine to prolong islets isolated by collagenase in Trowell's T8 medium and Ficoll gradient separation.
(16) In this study, explants from 19 canine prostate glands were cultivated for a minimum of 9 days in Trowell's T-8 medium.
(17) The blood drips off Netanyahu's trowel and oozes between the laid bricks, like wet concrete.
(18) The six concrete floor test pads with different surface treatments (fine and coarse sand, fine and coarse broom, wood float and steel trowel) were evaluated for friction coefficient (skid resistance value) using a British pendulum tester both before and after pig tests.
(19) Results reveal that the islets isolated by Trowells T8 medium were less fragmented and had better fine-structural integrity than those isolated by the conventional medium.
(20) He wasn't even sure the bone was human until he carefully scraped away with his trowel, found a second, parallel bone, and knew he had a pair of buried legs.