(n.) A small and beautiful species of orchid, having a flower variegated with purple, pink, and yellow. It grows in cold and wet localities in the northern part of the United States. The Calypso borealis is the only orchid which reaches 68¡ N.
Example Sentences:
(1) Calypso star Glenroy "Sullé" Caesar composed a song called Reparations, which has since become an anthem of the movement.
(2) Ukip’s claim that they are not a racist party gets more and more incredible with every scandal.” Read defended his song after some objected to his appropriation of calypso music to promote an anti-immigration argument.
(3) Remarkably, when Kitchener disembarked, Pathe News caught the "king of calypso" on camera.
(4) With its wit and side order of double entendre – "Oh mister, don't touch me tomatoes" – calypso fitted easily into the national psyche.
(5) It was The Banana Boat Song, a Jamaican work chant, that broke calypso to an international audience.
(6) Ukip has attracted criticism over its new calypso theme tune sung in a fake Caribbean accent, with lyrics about “open borders” and “illegal immigrants in every town”.
(7) I flew down there with my grandfather to spend two weeks on his boat, the Calypso, when I was nine.
(8) As the 50s teetered into the 60s, calypso was still popular.
(9) In his youth, when he was a Boston-based calypso singer, they used to call him The Charmer.
(10) But it was never meant to be remotely racist … It’s an old-fashioned political satire … you can’t sing a calypso with a Surrey accent.” The song’s second line addresses the issue of immigration, saying: “Leaders committed a cardinal sin, open the borders let them all come in; illegal immigrants in every town, stand up and be counted Blair and Brown.
(11) However, Calypso Sun Lotion SPF30, at £1.20 per 100ml is around a 10th of the cost of Piz Buin lotion – passed both tests.
(12) The first breach took place on 2 August last year, when the votes cast by five Irish viewers in Cricket AM's Car Park Calypso competition were not registered because of a technical fault.
(13) They are funny because David Silvester said gay marriage had caused flooding in the Thames basin ; because Godfrey Bloom assaulted a reporter with a conference brochure and condemned aid to “bongo bongo land” ; because their celebrity Mike Read sang a pro-Ukips calypso in a West Indian accent ; because William Henwood said Lenny Henry should emigrate to a “black country” ; because Winston McKenzie has the fame-crazed air of a man who would join a Skrewdriver tribute band if he thought it would get him on Channel 5 news; and because the Ukips’ deputy leader, Paul Nuttalls, is so pleased to be the centre of attention he sports the perpetual expression of a baby that has just used a potty for the first time, holding up his arse muck delightedly for his parents to coo over.
(14) Tidy lines of classic blue-and-white or pastel pink beach huts called Calypso and Aquarius sit on sea defences at Chapel Point, a few miles from Skegness.
(15) As a new book devoted to the label's cover art illustrates, Studio One also branched out into gospel, calypso and mento recordings, and even sessions by Indian devotional musician Sri Chinmoy.
Orchid
Definition:
(n.) Any plant of the order Orchidaceae. See Orchidaceous.
Example Sentences:
(1) The presence of flat feet and excessive laxity of the joints, associated with the characteristic facies, macro-orchidism, and behavior, justifies a referral for developmental and genetic evaluation.
(2) The discovery that drones of the Japanese honeybee (Apis cerana japonica) pollinate the oriental orchid (Cymbidium pumilum) is reported.
(3) Pat MacNamara, our host at the excellent Orchid House B&B, shows us the way.
(4) the mannose-specific lectins from the orchid species Cymbidium hybrid (CA), Epipactis helleborine (EHA) and Listera ovata (LOA) were highly inhibitory to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and type 2 (HIV-2) in MT-4, and showed a marked anti-human cytomegalovirus (CMV), respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and influenza A virus activity in HEL, HeLa and MDCK cells, respectively.
(5) A case of hypersensitivity pneumonitis is presented which was associated with exposure to Cryptostroma corticale from non-maple bark chips used to grow orchids.
(6) And if you believe her and Behan's rhetoric, it seems clear that the CQC would never again treat an Orchid View with such kid gloves.
(7) Severe testicular hypogonadism accompanied bilateral macro-orchidism, normal penis, and unilateral hydrocele.
(8) Here, the Liberty print of the orchid set is replaced by the cobra lily ( Darlingtonia californica ) , the CPS logo.
(9) I guess some jokes are like those rare orchids that appear only once in a generation, then disappear again.
(10) Every force had its own way of recording things, if a boy had gone missing a few times they wouldn’t even report it, and sometimes they would have a missing-person report and it was never followed up.” Stoodley said all the information from Operation Orchid should be within Scotland Yard.
(11) Protocorm pieces of the orchid Cymbidium were aseptically cultured either without phytohormones, or with one of the growth promoting substances, auxin cytokinin, and gibberellin.
(12) She was a formidable woman who liked orchids and postcards, her older sister, Jacqueline, told the newspaper.
(13) Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi for the Guardian On the wall of the Orchid project , a London charity dedicated to ending FGM, is a series of newspaper cuttings that reveal how the movement to stamp out the practice – which affects more than 130,000 women in England and Wales, according to new figures – has gained momentum.
(14) "A number of the concerns identified in the recent past with hospital services in the NHS have been echoed at Orchid View and it is right that the scrutiny and demands for improvement in the NHS are also expected from the independent sector."
(15) Collings said she welcomed a further criminal investigation into the running of Orchid View and called the inquest a "wake-up call" for the industry.
(16) The Guardian can reveal that intelligence linking a member of Cooke’s gang, Lennie Smith, to the Elm House guest house came into the Orchid inquiry, but was never followed up.
(17) Following the case, Judith Charatan, whose mother Doris Fielding died of natural causes, said: "I quickly realised that everything that had appealed to me about Orchid View being a safe place for my mum was just cosmetic.
(18) Vis has orchards of 1,000-year-old carob trees, rare orchids, plants and herbs that are dying out elsewhere in the Mediterranean, the most densely developed and visited tourist region in the world.
(19) The Guardian asked the Metropolitan police on Wednesday for the whereabouts of the Orchid files, but they refused to comment.
(20) Most of them are delicate orchids who won’t say anything.” He said British businesses would benefit from leaving the EU in the long run through increased democratic accountability.