(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.
Canada
Definition:
(n.) A British province in North America, giving its name to various plants and animals.
Example Sentences:
(1) King also described how representatives of every country at this month's G7 meeting in Canada seemed to be relying on an export-led recovery to revive their economies.
(2) Hemoglobin British Columbia was found in an East Indian living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
(3) October 23, 2013 3.55pm BST Another reason to be concerned about the global economy - Canada's central bank has slashed its economic forecasts for the US.
(4) The conference was held from December 3 to 5, 1990 in the Washington, DC area and was sponsored by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, US Food and Drug Administration, Federation International Pharmaceutique, Health Protection Branch (Canada) and Association of Official Analytical Chemists.
(5) Guy Jobbins, a Cairo-based British water scientist who heads Canada's International Development Research Centre climate change adaptation programme for Africa, says understanding of the issue has rocketed in the past few years.
(6) According to research by Tiga, the trade body representing the UK games industry, women make up just 12% of the development workforce in Britain – a percentage reflected by similar surveys in the US and Canada.
(7) A ten-year study of the sexual behavior of college students in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, shows that students choose among three sexual subcultures: celibacy, monogamy, and free experimentation.
(8) The sensitivity is, now that this is official, it will make things worse.” Like Australia, Canada weathered the financial crash of 2008 well, avoiding the banking crises suffered by the US, UK and the eurozone, instead growing fast on the back of exports of abundant natural resources.
(9) A registry, established by the Committee on Prevention of Spinal Cord Injuries Due to Hockey, of major injuries to the spine or spinal cord sustained while playing ice hockey contains 117 cases entered between January 1966 and March 1987; 112 of these injuries were sustained in Canada.
(10) Students of three different levels and the chairman of the MD-Program evaluated the educational system of McMaster University, Canada, using the six criteria of the case method as defined by Renschler.
(11) Opposition to Harper is evenly divided between two major opposition parties – the Liberals and the New Democrats – so the one-third of voters who vote Conservative are set once again to choose Canada’s national government.
(12) It stated that, at the Place du Canada rally, prime minister Pierre Trudeau pleaded with Quebecers to vote no.
(13) It is hypothesized that more understanding and progress may come from an insightful review of the historical development of Canadian Mental Health Services and the goals of organized Psychiatry in Canada than will result from developing a defensive and confrontational attitude towards current events in the field.
(14) Yasuni is among the most biodiverse regions on Earth, with each hectare containing more tree species than the US and Canada combined.
(15) A total of 922 postsecondary students enrolled in 6 health-care disciplines in Ottawa, Canada were surveyed for hepatitis-B immunization status.
(16) Who wants to be seen with that narrow, ungenerous and (to the rest of Canada) irritating thing, a separatist?
(17) A survey of 5300 allergists was conducted to determine the number and geographic distribution of patients receiving immunotherapy for imported fire ant (IFA) allergy in the United States and Canada.
(18) The present report is described the histopathological findings of the gastrointestinal lesions with Cronkhite-Canada syndrome and discussed with literature.
(19) It is difficult to accept lectures on outsourcing from the party that introduced the North American Free Trade Agreement – an outsourcers' charter liberalising trade between the US, Mexico and Canada.
(20) Scott Walker says building Canada border wall is a 'legitimate issue' Read more The governor, who is running well behind among the 17 contenders in the Republican White House race, sought to draw a distinction between his proposal and what he called Donald Trump’s “simplistic” idea on how to deal with an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the US.