(1) Long and medium spines of saguaro and barrel cacti seldom result in embedded fragments, but when they do they are difficult to locate and remove.
(2) Salsolidine is reported for the first time in the cacti.
(3) The cholla cacti are particularly tenacious in the manner in which the spines stay embedded in the skin.
(4) Dirty, punk rock spaces… While working part-time as a waitress, Olsen recorded an EP, Strange Cacti , and at a little show in Chicago to celebrate its launch, she met Emmett Kelly, Oldham's guitarist and collaborator.
(5) The influences of surface appendages, such as apical pubescence and spines, on minimal temperatures near the apical meristem of cacti are predicted, such minimal temperatures influencing the geographical distribution of various species.
(6) It’s dry and monochrome with staggering rock formations – you wonder how the hell they got there – and there are enormous cacti, about 30ft tall and hundreds of years old, as far as the eye can see.
(7) Along the sandy path, there were lizards darting about my feet and birds perching on the edge of spiky cacti.
(8) I need to know whether we should be working towards farming cows, canola or cacti sooner rather than later.
(9) But after 40 years, staff and freelance, memories crowd in and old umbrages flower lie mutant cacti.
(10) The relationship is also supported by the fact that D. navojoa breeds in Opuntia cactus, an ancestral behavior, whereas the other two species breed chiefly in Stenocereus cacti, a derived behavior.
(11) El Tri travelled with the ingredients for pozole , along with chilli peppers, chipotle chillies and nopales – cacti.
(12) The 49-acre site at Rayol-Canadel-sur-Mer, Var is divided up into separate zones, including bamboos from Asia, Chilean cacti and one zone completely underwater.
(13) The desert itself is counter-intuitively productive: home to more than 500 food plants – from wild oregano and mesquite pods to all manner of edible cacti.
(14) Twice each day, we ambled along well-trodden trails through the sand, up and down rocky ridges, passing cacti and sagebrush.
(15) Emphasis in this review is on principles of wide biological applicability, with specific examples being chosen from research on agaves and cacti.
(16) A patient, employed in a plant nursery where cacti are grown, developed wide spread dyshidrotic dermatitis of the hands.
(17) Everything was so exotic: cowboys on beautiful horses trotting around, those cardon cacti with arms – it felt like being in a cartoon.
(18) Kelly took away a copy of Strange Cacti and remembered Olsen's name.
(19) Collectively, these strains caused soft rots of saguaro, organ pipe, and senita cacti, Opuntia (cactus) fruits and pads, tomato fruits, and potato slices, but only occasionally caused soft rots of slices of carrot roots.
(20) Researchers investigating reports of damage to plants in northern Israel have concluded that an aggressive parasite has attacked the cacti, causing damage and ultimately death.
Cactus
Definition:
(n.) Any plant of the order Cactacae, as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus. See Cereus. They usually have leafless stems and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of America.
Example Sentences:
(1) In February last year the BBC was forced to apologise to the Mexican ambassador after a joke made by the three presenters that the nation's cars were like the people "lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat".
(2) It's an extraordinary, sprawling world, powered by magic and steampunk technology, populated by humans, cactus-people, insectoid, amphibian and avian races, dripping with myths and monsters and menaced by repressive regimes.
(3) 3:28:05 New York Tracon: "Cactus 1529, if we can get it to you, do you want to try to land runway 1-3?"
(4) Agurell has previously detected (tlc, glc-ms) tyramine, 3-methoxytyramine, and two unknown alkaloids in the Peruvian cactus, Trichocereus peruvianus Br.
(5) 3:29:21 New York Tracon: "Cactus 1529, turn right 2-8-0, you can land runway one at Teterboro."
(6) 3:31:30 Unknown: "Was that cactus up by the Tappan Zee?"
(7) Her autopsy findings were characteristic of the damage to an immature brain during development; cactus formation of cerebellar cortex and periventricular leukomalacia.
(8) One is how, when parachuted behind enemy lines, he landed on a cactus bush and was horribly injured.
(9) 3:31:32 New York Tracon: "Uh, yeah, it was a cactus.
(10) Here we show that in contrast to the dorsal group genes, the maternal gene cactus acts as a negative regulator of the nuclear localization of the dorsal protein.
(11) In between come the honky-tonk towns of Texas, the cactus-studded desert of New Mexico and Arizona, and the dunes and mountain passes of California.
(12) The cactus alkaloid 3,4-dimethoxyphenethylamine and its naturally occurring N-methylated homologs inhibited the deamination of tyramine and tryptamine by rat brain monoamine oxidase.
(13) Coca-Cola, cactus and flight safety manual illustrations form the basis of the kitsch prints.
(14) Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus Facebook Twitter Pinterest The title of this psychedelic road trip extravaganza gives a good idea of the drug-fuelled adventures to come.
(15) He blogs at DC's Improbable Science Response on behalf of the CACTUS Study research team Dr Charlotte Paterson, Peninsula College of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Exeter.
(16) However, embryos still retain dorsoventral polarity, even if derived from germline clones using the strongest available, zygotic lethal cactus alleles.
(17) Ultrasound detected 59 of 60 foreign bodies, including all cubes of meat embedded with gravel, cactus spine, plastic, metal, and wood.
(18) Previous work showed that in cactus mutants more dorsal protein enters the nucleus in dorsal regions, resulting in a ventralized phenotype.
(19) This result implies that cactus acts via dorsal and has no independent morphogen function.
(20) Two patients are described with occupational asthma due to carmine, a natural dye extracted from the insect Coccus cactus.