(n.) A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Daemanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans.
(n.) Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane.
(n.) Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry.
(n.) A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one the species of cane.
(n.) A lance or dart made of cane.
(n.) A local European measure of length. See Canna.
(v. t.) To beat with a cane.
(v. t.) To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Christmas theme doesn't end there; "America's Christmas Hometown" also has Santa's Candy Castle, a red-brick building with turrets that was built by the Curtiss Candy Company in the 1930s and sells gourmet candy canes in abundance.
(2) The current floods in Australia have the potential to affect prices for commodities such as sugar and cane growers are warning of production problems for up to three years.
(3) Keeping the dietary fats (coconut safflower seed oil) at 20% level, diets containing (a) startch (54%) + cane sugar (0%), (b) starch (44%) + cane sugar 10%), (c) starch (10%) + cane sugar (44%) and (d) only cane sugar (54%) were administered to rats for 8 weeks.
(4) Fifty-five percent of the patients can walk well with one cane, 31% with two canes, and 14% require assistance to walk.
(5) All patients were functionally independent and able to ambulate using a straight cane.
(6) Britain had just joined what was then the common market and the kind of cane sugar the company processed was being challenged by French-grown sugar beet.
(7) All patients were able to walk with or without a cane.
(8) The bonus earnings of cane cutters who were found to be infected with S. mansoni were compared, retrospectively, with earnings of uninfected cane cutters during the years 1968-69.
(9) 37 Castle Street, Somerset, A5 1LN; 01278 732 266; janetphillips-weaving.co.uk East Assington Mill's rural skills courses range from cane-and-rush chair making to silk scarf dyeing– and some more unusual options, too.
(10) I know you love me and I love you,” said Jonathan, wearing his trademark fedora and carrying a gold-handled cane, in a speech punctuated by bass guitar and cymbals.
(11) Nyingi, who was detained for about nine years , beaten unconscious and bears the marks from leg manacles, whipping and caning, said: "For me … I just wanted the truth to be out.
(12) At the very top is a panoramic view as far as the southern Sri Lankan coast and a tiny cafe selling magnificent short eats, tea and jaggery (cane sugar).
(13) The patient required 19 days of prosthetic training and was discharged independent in ambulation and transfers using two straight canes.
(14) After operation the patients did not complain about pain and they walked with the aid of a cane.
(15) Twenty isolates of N2-fixing spirilla were isolated from the rhizosphere of maize and sugar cane grown in Egyptian and Belgian soils.
(16) Due to the dramatic increase in international oil prices, the ethanol production by fermentation is presently becoming an attractive and feasible project for many countries Argentina has implemented an experimental national program of ethanol use as fuel and the standard procedure of Melle-Boinot is currently employed in sugar cane molasses fermentation.
(17) Noting that an unchecked epidemic would undermine the country's development, Reid praised the awareness efforts instituted by the interim government that cane in to power February 1991, following a military coup.
(18) Intracutaneous injections of three glucan contaminants of invert sugar solutions and crude cane sugar into human skin produced localised wheals and erythema reactions.
(19) Many pictures in the book – of families cutting cane, of men shinning up coconut trees – replicate the rural sights I see when I visit.
(20) Protoplasts of susceptible cane are rendered insensitivity to the effects of the toxin in a medium deficient in K+ and Mg2+.
Twig
Definition:
(v. t.) To twitch; to pull; to tweak.
(v. t.) To understand the meaning of; to comprehend; as, do you twig me?
(v. t.) To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover.
(n.) A small shoot or branch of a tree or other plant, of no definite length or size.
(v. t.) To beat with twigs.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was also demonstrated that the plexus of the median eminence is, at its periphery, in direct communication with the systemic venous twigs.
(2) The twig was removed, and calcium-dextrose and penicillin G were administered.
(3) At least 114 of the women at UTH induce abortion themselves by inserting plants or twigs into the cervix.
(4) But let’s talk about twigs (Formerly Known As Tahliah).
(5) These findings suggest that the inflow of blood into the common carotid body artery may be regulated by its constriction, especially of its arterial cushion, and that the subsidiary branches of the common carotid body artery and the accessory twigs of the proper carotid body artery may act as bypass-routes to eliminate the excessive inflow of blood into the carotid body.
(6) All recordings showed abnormal jitter, many (75%) displayed intermittent blocking, and most had abnormal fibre density (mean 4.3), demonstrating considerable degrees of collateral sprouting supported by the fasciculating motor units, and varying degrees of functional immaturity of the new axonal twigs and the motor end plates.
(7) Responses of single muscle fibres to electrical stimulation of the tibial nerve trunk or of the intramuscular nerve twigs were detected in young volunteers without evidence of neurological disease.
(8) The double afferent arterioles arose separately from a terminal twig of the interlobular artery and reached the vascular pole of a subcapsular glomerulus which possessed a single efferent arteriole.
(9) The bulbospongiosus and the transversus perinei superficialis receive several twigs from the medial and intermediate cutaneous branches of the perineal nerve.
(10) Except for one patient the accessory renal arteries missed at angiography were tiny twigs; the small renal infarcts caused by ligating them did not impair transplant survival.
(11) The shape of the lobulus testis is indicated by the centripetal branch with its centrifugal twigs.
(12) That’s a specialised form of garden work they’re wanting,” he told me with a wink, and when I still didn’t twig, he explained that Garberville is the capital of Californian marijuana culture.
(13) A ventral twig of SO innervates the ventral snout (normally IO territory) and projects into the electroreceptive lateral line lobe in an IO pattern.
(14) Eleven months old and with a squidgy layer of puppy fat still on show, she’s busy tying me in knots with a lead and is clearly no dummy – within minutes she has twigged that I have a stash of dog-chews in my bag and is clearly hatching a plan to get at them.
(15) If the prosecutor asked the court to burn Pussy Riot at the stake, I can just picture the courtroom staff running around, gathering twigs and lighter fluid.
(16) An olfactory nerve twig produced a different magnitude of responses to the various odor stimuli.
(17) If coracoid mobilization is necessary, the musculocutaneous nerve and its twigs should be identified and protected, keeping in mind the variations in anatomy and the level of penetration.
(18) A preparation has been developed in the pigeon which allows recording of the electrical activity from an olfactory nerve twig containing the nonmyelinated axons of a small group of olfactory receptor cells.
(19) Gamma irradiation resulted in pale, foamy cytoplasmic vesicles, the separation of smooth muscle cells and changes in the structure of the luminal aspect of arterial blood vessels while neutron irradiation produced dense cytoplasmic vesicles and electron dense bodies within the substance of peripheral nerve twigs.
(20) Morphological adaptations to climbing (a scansorial mode of quadrupedal, arboreal locomotion practised on twigs and small branches) are identified by relating anatomical details of limb bones to a sample of 6,136 instantaneous observational recordings on the positional behavior and support uses of 20 different free-ranging, adult red howlers.