(a.) Headlike in form; also, having the distal end enlarged and rounded, as the stigmas of certain flowers.
(a.) Having the flowers gathered into a head.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said the 8.13am train from the French capital to London reached Calais before suffering “network problems”.
(2) An unexpected result of the Greek crisis has been a flight of capital into British government bonds, which has seen gilt prices fall.
(3) The deep green people who have an issue with the language of natural capital are actually making the same jump from value to commodification that they state that they don’t want ... They’ve equated one with the other,” he says.
(4) There are currently more than 380,000 households on local authority waiting lists in the capital – and the number is growing every day.
(5) James Cameron, vice-chairman of Climate Change Capital , an environmental investment group, and a member of the prime minister's Business Advisory Group , says: "I think the UK has, in essence, become a better place for green investors.
(6) But late last month, Amisom pushed them out of Afgoye, a strategic stronghold 30km from Mogadishu, where Amisom officials say the militants used to manufacture explosives used in attacks on the capital.
(7) It was only up to jurors to decide if the hotel owner, West End Hotel Partners, and former operator, Windsor Capital Group, should share in the blame.
(8) She lived and worked in the German capital and since 2014 had been employed by a logistics company there, according to her Facebook profile.
(9) There is a European Investment Bank, a Nordic Investment Bank and many others, all capitalised by states or groups of states for the purpose of financing mandated projects by borrowing in the capital markets.
(10) You can tell them that Deutsche Bank remains absolutely rock solid, given our strong capital and risk position.
(11) The mayor of London had said in a Twitter exchange in July that it was a “ludicrous urban myth” that Britain’s premier shopping street was one of the world’s most polluted thoroughfares, saying that the capital’s air quality was “better than Paris and other European cities”.
(12) Stray bottles were thrown over the barriers towards officers to cheers and chants of: “Shame on you, we’re human too.” The Met deployed what it described as a “significant policing operation”, including drafting in thousands of extra officers to tackle expected unrest, after previous events ended in arrests and clashes with police across the centre of the capital.
(13) There must also be strict rules in place to reduce the risks they take with shareholders' funds.Yet the huge cost of increasing capital and liquidity is forgotten when the Treasury urges them to increase lending to small and medium businesses.
(14) At least 10,000 civilians took refuge in UN compounds in the capital, said one UN official who asked not to be named.
(15) They were granted “extraordinary leave” and left with their military equipment to be captured or killed on the streets of the Chechen capital.
(16) The attitudes and practices of 96 doctors toward spousal assault victims in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia, were investigated by questionnaire surveys distributed to general practitioners.
(17) It’s likely Xi’s brand of smart authoritarianism will keep not just his party in power but the whole show on the road If all this were to succeed as intended, western liberal democratic capitalism would have a formidable ideological competitor with worldwide appeal, especially in the developing world.
(18) A dam Johnson's point may need proving towards Roberto Mancini rather than Manuel Pellegrini, but Manchester City will still be aware of a Sunderland player with a cause in the Capital One Cup final.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Syrians queue for water at a shelter in Hirjalleh, a rural area near the capital Damascus.
(20) China's best-known artist Ai Weiwei has been detained at Beijing airport this morning and police have surrounded his studio in the capital.
Clavate
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Clavated
Example Sentences:
(1) The anterior kinetosome of each pair bears a clavate cilium, only 0.5-0.7 micron in length and with a 9 + 0 axoneme while the cilium of the posterior kinetosome is even shorter.
(2) Uninucleate clavate spores were formed in Apocyclops sp.
(3) It was distinguished by the production of clavate microconidia in chains from proliferating phialides.
(4) Taxonomic studies of the producing organism revealed that it has morphologically characteristic aerial mycelia in which two to three spores are borne usually on short and clavate side branches.
(5) Ultrastructural changes noted in both dehydrated and vasopressin treated animals included: the frequent occurrence of choroidal "dark" cells, dilatation of the lateral and basal intercellular spaces, increased vacuolization of the apical cytoplasm, and a change in microvillar conformation from the normal clavate type to those with a filiforma shape.
(6) As clavate ascospores are unknown in yeasts, a new genus, Clavispora, is proposed with Clavispora lusitaniae spec.
(7) Cells of the opposite mating types conjugate and form asci with one to four clavate spores.
(8) Young growing cultures of this organism were found to be very polymorphous: along with rod-like cells of various dimensions (0.6--0.8x1.0--3.0 mcm) which were predominant, coccoid, pyriform, clavate and dumbbell-like cells were also encountered.
(9) Growth cone configuration varied widely but fell into five general categories: complex with both filopodia and veils, filopodia only, lamellipodia only, clavate, and fusiform.
(10) The spermatozoon is clavate anteriorly and tail-like posteriorly.
(11) In wild-type animals allowed free access to water light cells with clavate microvilli (secretory cells) predominated whereas, following water deprivation there was a preponderance of dark cells with filiform microvilli, abundant mitochondria, multivesicular bodies and osmiophilic droplets (resorptive cells).
(12) Growth cones of Rohon-Beard central ascending axons were fusiform or clavate, while those of sensory ganglion axons showed several fine filopodia at their tips.
(13) The present morphochemical analyses indicate that (1) the mucosubstances of the epidermis are found within two well differentiated cell types, goblet and clavate cells which elaborate a neuraminic acid containing mucosaccharide with vicinal hydroxyl, sulfate and carboxyl groupings and a glycoprotein respectively and (2) the mucosubstances of the gill and intestinal epithelia are found within goblet cells which elaborate a mucosaccharide with histochemical properties comparable to those of mucosaccharide within the epidermal goblet cells.
(14) Each cusped clavate labial denticle adheres, by means of a thin peduncle, to a similar labial denticle fixed in the lip and formed by a group of three or four cells that keratinize gradually and thus present remarkable differences in their morphology.
(15) Locust campaniform sensilla and clavate hair projections of crickets terminate locally.
(16) Mating is observed in Bullera alba and B. variabilis, resulting in the formation of dikaryotic mycelium with clamps, haustorial branches, and lateral and terminal dikaryotic, clavate, lageniform or subglobose cells.
(17) These clavate forms may represent specialized cells during the life-cycle.
(18) Microsporum magellanicum is characterized by verrucose or verruculose clavate macroconidia predominantly uniseptate, 4-87-2micronx14-4-21-6micron.
(19) It differs from similar species in the adult female by having the coxal setae formula 2-1-2-0, sensillae clavate but not globose or subglobose, and interior seta on coxa I reduced in size but not vestigial.
(20) Side branching and terminal clavate forms were also present.