(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.
Succulent
Definition:
(a.) Full of juice; juicy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
(2) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
(3) Its "restaurant" in the Olympic park was decorated with words like "succulent" blown up to obesity to mislead.
(4) Up close, I see that the Culatrans coax exquisite gardens out of the sand with wildflowers, succulents, shell patterns and mad blushes of bougainvillea.
(5) Those questions will probably centre on testimony given by Torres last week – including dozens of emails that allegedly show that the king tried to help his son-in-law land potentially succulent, if legal, contracts.
(6) I try to be nice about it.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Corcoran films a strip of rocks and succulents.
(7) Mallard ducks fed a diet containing 3 ppm DDE (equal to about 0.6 ppm in a natural succulent diet) laid eggs that contained an average of 5.8 ppm DDE; ducklings that hatched from these eggs differed from controls in behavioral tests designed to measure responses to a maternal call and to a frightening stimulus.
(8) The traumatic damages of the uterine wall are described (extravascular fibrin deposits, interstitial bleeding, succulent tissue a.s.o.
(9) These mercury diets are approximately equivalent to 0.1 and 0.6 ppm mercury in a natural succulent diet.
(10) Downstairs a large bar-restaurant flows outside, serving succulent lamb, seafood and paella.
(11) A few days before the 1st dead animal was found, the drought was relieved by about 10 cm (4 in) of rainfall, resulting in the growth of young succulent grass.
(12) Published field studies indicate that these animals depend more on dry hard fruit and chitinous invertebrates during drier times and succulent fruits and caterpillars during wetter times of the year.
(13) Customers from all walks of life happily devour their succulent char-roasted morsels of goodness, while downing ice-cold beer or horchata , a milky-looking drink made from rice.
(14) The winner, however, is the rib-eye; bit pricier, but pesos well spent for tender succulence.
(15) I serve mine for breakfast with a runny egg on top, or for dinner with buttery cabbage and succulent chicken thighs.
(16) Above the roar of machinery, Stiles explains that you need some skin to keep the nuggets succulent; 15% is about right, he reckons.
(17) The meat is juicy and succulent, the smoky grilled aroma lingering until you take the next bite.
(18) thermophilus in the milk; -- in feeding greater amounts of succulent forages in the winter, spring, and autumn periods there is a retardation in the development of the same organisms in the milk.
(19) In promonocytes and in neutrophilic and eosinophilic proganulocytes, peroxidase reaction product was localized in lysosomes, in the perinuclear cisternae, all cisternae of the endoplasmic reticulum, and the Golgi succules.
(20) What people leave as forest could be sparse hill slopes, and the elephants may well prefer to move through farmlands and feed on succulent crops as they go.