(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.
Hat
Definition:
(a.) Hot.
() sing. pres. of Hote to be called. Cf.
(n.) A covering for the head; esp., one with a crown and brim, made of various materials, and worn by men or women for protecting the head from the sun or weather, or for ornament.
Example Sentences:
(1) The result of this study demonstrates that both the "hat" and "inverted" type grafts are highly successful and satisfactory procedures.
(2) On the other hand the TUC says people should also be prepared to be out in the sun for several hours and bring sunscreen and if possible a hat.
(3) When you score a hat trick in the first 16 minutes of a World Cup Final with tens of millions of people watching across the world, essentially ending the match and clinching the tournament before most players worked up a sweat or Japan had a chance to throw in the towel, your status as a sports legend is forever secure – and any favorable comparisons thrown your way are deserved.
(4) Which certainly isn't a charge you can level at Sony – in recent years, it has conspicuously championed indies (winning a hatful of Baftas for Journey and The Unfinished Swan in the process).
(5) It’s not going to change whether I score a hat-trick or don’t score at all.
(6) Never had I heard anything about what I saw documented so unsparingly in Evan’s photographs: families sleeping in the streets, their clothes in shreds, straw hats torn and unprotecting of the sun, guajiros looking for work on the doorsteps of Havana’s indifferent mansions.
(7) "On 22 May," reads the legend above their black fedora hats, "Jens and Sedsel will choose who's in charge in Europe .
(8) But that Monday night, I went to bed and decided to throw my hat in the ring."
(9) That is the question facing Major League Baseball pitchers who are faced with the horrendous looking but protective hat that made its debut this week.
(10) In the present study, the clinical value of handgrip-apexcardiographic test (HAT) for identifying patients with new ischemia by the assessment of LV diastolic abnormalities during HG was prospectively investigated.
(11) Now, you have to put on a producer's hat, a director's hat, a writer's hat.
(12) It was his second hat-trick in four games and he has now scored 10 times in seven.
(13) Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) in Zaïre is a medical problem of first importance, particularly in endemic areas where sleeping sickness threatens about 10 millions of human beings almost the third of the whole population.
(14) It is proposed that the acceleration of 3-HAT oxidation leads to the enhancement of the 3-HAT toxicity.
(15) Christian Benteke has been revitalised under Sherwood and he followed up his hat-trick in last Tuesday’s 3-3 draw with Queens Park Rangers by scoring the winner here.
(16) He had to watch her score a hat-trick and lift the trophy on television instead.
(17) Girls loved him, his flouncy lace sleeves, tight trousers, big hats, curly hair.
(18) Highlight: Mike Magee’s opening day hat-trick against the team he ended the season with.
(19) "What I realised is that the most important thing is China," he says, cradling a beer and still wearing his trademark cowboy-style wide-rimmed hat.
(20) There was more magic on ITV at 9.10pm with The Illusionists, but it was unable to pull an overnights rabbit out of the hat, with just under 2 million viewers, an 8.5% share.