(n.) The fruit of a tree (Artocarpus incisa) found in the islands of the Pacific, esp. the South Sea islands. It is of a roundish form, from four to six or seven inches in diameter, and, when baked, somewhat resembles bread, and is eaten as food, whence the name.
(n.) The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two bands of the same size (12 and 15 kD) as the jacalin subunits were the major components in breadfruit seed extract.
(2) There's a path, but I stuck to the road, which wound its way past the favelas, with glimpses down to Sugar Loaf, the islands and sea beyond, and into the forest, with its huge, old breadfruit trees and the kind of plant life I'd only ever seen in the 1970s.
(3) In mice experimentally invaded by H. nana it was shown that the water extraction of breadfruit tree substance is rather less effective than its ethanol extraction and has some purgative action, which increases the therapeutic effect.
(4) Breadfruit trees have been destroyed, the soil isn’t good enough to grow crops.
(5) In vitro bioassay of (a) aqueous methanol extracts (AME) of the green leaves of mimosa (Mimosa pudica), love weed (Cuscuta americana), vervine (Stachytarpheta jamaicensis), chicken weed (Salvia serotina) and breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis); (b) methanol-water fraction (MWF) of breadfruit leaves, and (c) commercially available drugs albendazole, thiabendazole and levamisole were assayed for nematode inactivating potential, using filariform larvae of Strongyloides stercoralis.
(6) We had curried squash, callaloo, a spinach dish, chicken rice pilau, and "oil down", which you rarely see outside of the Caribbean; breadfruit and salt cod cooked for hours in coconut milk – you just keep adding it until the fruit has absorbed as much as possible.
(7) It50 (time for inactivation of 50% of larvae) values read: levamisole and mimosa extract less than 1 hour; love weed extract, approximately 2 hours; breadfruit (MWF), 9.5 hours; chicken weed, 20 hours; albendazole, 35 hours; breadfruit (AME), 49 hours; thiabendazole, 74 hours and vervine extract, 81.5 hours.
(8) Both cakes and isolates were assessed in a rat bioassay while breadfruit, cassava, and corn starch were also investigated as sources of carbohydrate.
(9) The breadfruit lectin displayed the same IgAl and IgD precipitation specificity as jacalin in gel double diffusion experiments.
(10) In simulated weaning diets, cassava-sucrose-melon-soybean protein isolate based diet performed better (weight gain 33.4 g, PER 1.63, NPR 2.23) than a commercial weaning food (weight gain 30.6 g PER 1.57, NPR 2.18) while replacement of sucrose and cassava at 30% by breadfruit yielded a cost effective diet with good performance (weight gain 29.4 g, PER 1.51, NPR 2.12).
(11) With melon protein isolate, cassava and breadfruit were better carbohydrate sources than corn starch.
(12) Aquous extracts from seeds of Artocarpus altilis (breadfruit) and Artocarpus heterophyllus (jackfruit) were compared by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
(13) And Alex Connell, principal tutor at the Vegetarian Society's cookery school, Cordon Vert, is currently helping students to discover the Caribbean, and its novel use of fresh chilli, spices and sweet ingredients: "It's a good source of new and interesting ingredients, like ackee, callaloo, cassareep and breadfruit."
(14) The effect of treatment and supplementary value of corn (C) or crayfish (CR) on the protein quality of breadfruit (Treculia Africana) flours were studied in eighteen young rats.
(15) Other containers held herbs, or more exotic items, labelled jackfruit and breadfruit.
(16) Breadfruit tree preparations impair in vitro the motility of the cestodes Hymenolepis nana causing their motor excitation, contracture and death.
(17) Diets where soybean protein served as the sole source of protein or breadfruit, white and yellow maize 'ogi' served as the main source of carbohydrate performed only moderately.
(18) These other crops – including baobab, amaranth, breadfruit and the spider plant – have long been neglected by researchers and are often known as 'orphan crops'.
(19) On the other hand, when crayfish was the only source of supplementary protein (30%) to breadfruit cooked without 'akanwu' there were increases in all parameters tested over those with added 'akanwu' except for the N intake, wt.
(20) The drought has also affected the food supply, hitting crops such as breadfruit, bananas and taro.
Evergreen
Definition:
(a.) Remaining unwithered through the winter, or retaining unwithered leaves until the leaves of the next year are expanded, as pines cedars, hemlocks, and the like.
(n.) An evergreen plant.
(n.) Twigs and branches of evergreen plants used for decoration.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hopefully there can be some really great performances which will try to blow away the shadow that programme has caused.” But Kilty will face a strong field in the men’s 100m that includes five athletes who have gone under the 10 second barrier in 2015, including the Frenchman Jimmy Vicaut, the American Mike Rodgers and the evergreen Kim Collins.
(2) C. minuticornis was found in these and in tropical evergreen and semi-evergreen rain forests of S. Thailand and N.W.
(3) A popular theme in Shin's films - not unlike the Hollywood weepies of the 1950s - concerns the plight of women chafing under the limits of society's expectations, such as The Evergreen Tree (1961), in which Choi played a reform-minded woman struggling against provincialism to teach rural children how to read and write.
(4) riversi was confined to evergreen forest and its adjacent area.
(5) Presently, taxol is derived from the bark of the Pacific yew, Taxus brevifolia, a small, slow-growing evergreen tree native to the northwestern United States.
(6) The three greatest concerns for Australia in the recent draft include provisions that would further entrench secondary patenting and evergreening, lock in extensions to patent terms, and extend monopoly rights over clinical trial data for certain medicines.” The lead author of the report and a public health lecturer at La Trobe University, Dr Deborah Gleeson, said the consequence was the extra cost of medicines could get passed on to the consumer through increasing the co-payment on government-subsidised drugs, or by restricting access to expensive drugs to those who could afford them.
(7) Her pragmatism is unusual, but then Liu is director of Evergreen, a state-owned old people's home in north Beijing.
(8) But the Evergreen State is not known for its clear days; rain and fog are persistent here year round.
(9) From the sociopathic capitalist machine by way of Mr Burns and the relentless religious optimism of Ned Flanders to the working-class, tense but sometimes faux-sexual interracial relationship between Lenny and Carl, for anyone that wants to look at America under a comedy microscope, you have to start with 742 Evergreen Terrace.
(10) Efforts to prevent sporotrichosis among persons handling evergreen seedlings should include the use of alternate types of packing material (e.g., cedar wood chips or shredded paper) and protective clothing such as gloves and long-sleeved shirts.
(11) It seems impossible – surely she was ageless, like one of those very old, tiny, trees in the Arctic, gnarled and tough as a nut, but nonetheless evergreen.
(12) The evergreen Churchill Arms on Kensington Church Street becomes one enormous conifer each December.
(13) Minnelli has been out of fashion for a while, despite having directed – alongside Meet Me In St Louis – some of the truly evergreen musicals of the middle 20th century, especially at MGM under Arthur Freed.
(14) Stephanie Coontz, a faculty member at the Evergreen State College in Washington state and a frequent contributor to publications including the New York Times, agrees, saying that writing for the public forces researchers to work in unfamiliar ways.
(15) Evergreen striker Paul Ifill, playing his 100th game for the Phoenix, provided an injection of pace and guile when he came on after 65 minutes but, although opportunities were created, the finishing wasn't there.
(16) The antimicrobial activities of seven Epicoccum purpurascens strains isolated either from evergreen oak leaves (Quercus ilex) collected over a period of one year, or from the atmosphere were compared in vitro.
(17) 66,000), central Finland, was carried out in 1990 as part of the EVERGREEN-project.
(18) But even if you can afford Evergreen's fees of up to 5,100 yuan (£510) each month, it has just 600 beds, and a waiting list of 1,300.
(19) Evergreening could delay generic competition for up to 20 years, the report found.
(20) While, for many, work might become redundant, its value and the virtues it can cultivate are evergreen.