(n.) A rich red or crimson color with a shade of purple.
(n.) A beautiful pigment, or a lake, of this color, prepared from cochineal, and used in miniature painting.
(n.) The essential coloring principle of cochineal, extracted as a purple-red amorphous mass. It is a glucoside and possesses acid properties; -- hence called also carminic acid.
Example Sentences:
(1) Estimated by SSST, the FAFol, which employs the stool with the highest content of 51Cr corresponding to the most carmine-colored stool, correlated closely with the FAFol based on complete stool collection (r = 0.96, n = 39, p less than 0.0001).
(2) The frequency and weight of stools significantly decreased, the stools became more solid, and carmine transit time was prolonged during loperamide therapy.
(3) The antibody can be demonstrated in the microprecipitation test on live larvae in vitro and in the agglutination test with carmine-adsorbed antigen.
(4) Among the latter, there were sensitizations, to our knowledge hitherto unreported in the literature: to indigo carmine (2 cases), monensin sodium (1 case), thiabendazole (1 case), methylchlorpindol (1 case) and amprolium hydrochloride (1 case).
(5) This selective method could be valuable in microscopic and cytochemical studies on chromatin because the carmine fluorescence is stable and preparations can be dehydrated and mounted permanently without changes in the fluorescence pattern.
(6) The PAS-reaction, the staining with Best's carmine and the reaction with alizarinblue S for the proof of glycogen were positive in all blood vessels investigated.
(7) The vacuolated liver sections were qualitatively more intense than the dense sections when stained with Best's carmine.
(8) The relative standard deviation for repeated determinations of carminic acid in a commercial strawberry-flavored yogurt was 3.0%.
(9) Oral administration of carminic acid resulted in a biphasic excretion of this dye in the feces, due to coprophagy.
(10) Bagasse supplements accelerated gastrointestinal transit when measured by the carmine marker technique.
(11) Recoveries of carminic acid added to a natural-flavored yogurt ranged from 87.2 to 95.3% with a mean of 90.2%.
(12) Paraffin sections of placentas of control and of fetuses with FAS were stained with hematoxylin and eosin, Best's carmine and PAS with and without diastase (saliva).
(13) Blood samples were taken on each of the last 3 d and faeces collected (using carmine markers) for the last 6 d of each diet period.
(14) The following staining reactions were applied (paraffin embedding or frozen sections): haemalum-eosin stain; PAS-reaction; Sudan III; Sudan black; Best's carmine (for details on the techniques see ROMEIS 1968).
(15) Transit time was determined by carmine and did not differ between groups.
(16) In the course of isolation anthocyanins, carmine, betanin, caramel and riboflavin are separated from synthetic dyes, as well as from one another, with the exception of first two, which are separated from one another by chromatography or distinguished by oxidation.
(17) Intestinal transit times in children less than 3 years old with gastroenteritis were measured using carmine suspension and radioopaque pellets.
(18) The results indicate that cochineal lacks carcinogenicity in mice and are consistent with those of in vitro short-term assays of cochineal and of carminic acid, an active principle of cochineal.
(19) When injected with indigo carmine, the vessels localized by the hydrogen-induced current impulses filled the entire anterior spinal artery from the low thoracic to the sacral region, whereas injection of the other vessels did not show filling.
(20) Andreotti was also accused of having ordered the murder of a rightwing journalist, Carmine Pecorelli, in 1979.
Fuchsia
Definition:
(n.) A genus of flowering plants having elegant drooping flowers, with four sepals, four petals, eight stamens, and a single pistil. They are natives of Mexico and South America. Double-flowered varieties are now common in cultivation.
Example Sentences:
(1) At Maní, this quintessential Brazilian fruit comes in the form of a fuchsia-coloured cold soup with a prawn steamed in cachaça.
(2) The sea has turned the quarries into lagoons, while long grasses, wild fuchsia and blackthorn have covered what the sea cannot penetrate.
(3) The gardens, visited daily by hummingbirds, are home to passionflower, fuchsia, avocado and peach trees, while the organic farm, with its aromatic herbs and vegetable garden, supplies the restaurant with seasonal produce.
(4) There are my roast tomatoes with crumbs and thyme, Russell Norman's broad bean, mint and ricotta bruschette, Fuchsia Dunlop's fragrant sea bream, and a beet bourguignon from The Green Kitchen.
(5) He’s a dominatrix’s sidekick (he calls himself Master Bobby and shouts at a businessman wearing fuchsia lingerie).
(6) Fuchsia Dunlop 6 ENGLISH FOOD Jane Grigson (Ebury Press, 1974) Buy it The great Jane Grigson, the Observer's food writer from 1968 until her death in 1990, was also the author of many wonderful cookbooks.
(7) Kate stood out against the grey morning haze in a fuchsia Mulberry coat, which she wore over a UK label Seraphine maternity dress.
(8) Sea bream in fish fragrant sauce: Fuchsia Dunlop This is my attempt to recreate, on a domestic scale, a recipe from the Bashu Weiyuan tucked away on a back street in the centre of Chengdu.
(9) From Every Grain of Rice by Fuchsia Dunlop (Bloomsbury, £25).
(10) Our panel of judges: Raymond Blanc, Bill Buford, Rachel Cooke, Monty Don, Fuchsia Dunlop, Fergus Henderson, Mark Hix, Simon Hopkinson, Atul Kochar, Prue Leith, Thomasina Miers, Tom Parker-Bowles, Jay Rayner, David Thompson and the OFM team 10 GREAT DISHES OF THE WORLD Robert Carrier (Marshall Cavendish, 1963) Buy it Good cookery books capture the culinary zeitgeist; truly great cookery books shape it.
(11) Phoebe McFadden picked up her absolute favourite toy of the moment, a sexy, spiky-fanged vampire figurine wearing a punky fuchsia miniskirt and knee-high boots.
(12) Jay Rayner 9 SICHUAN COOKERY Fuchsia Dunlop (Penguin, 2003) Buy it Before I had finished even half of Fuchsia Dunlop's introduction to her first cookbook, I was kicking myself for knowing so little about such a diverse and clearly delicious food region that's as big as France and more populous than Britain.
(13) On a dull March afternoon, a riot of municipal planting is in flower: forsythia, fuchsia, daffodils, croci, and pansies.
(14) In the foreground is a young woman with fuchsia lipstick, Jackie O-style sunglasses and a colourful headscarf.
(15) We all know that journalists are a slovenly bunch, and I'm sure no eyebrows would be raised were you to turn up at your desk in egg-stained Y-fronts and a fuchsia foulard.
(16) Photograph: Chris Terry Chinese cookery expert Fuchsia Dunlop took a shine to vegetables in her last book, explaining how to really ramp up the flavours with seasoning and spices .
(17) You could see her art school background in the attention to detail, in the way she dressed: the pastel green eyeshadow, fuchsia lipstick, neon prints.
(18) Fuchsia Dunlop's pock-marked old woman's tofu Fuchsia Dunlop's vegetarian version of pock-marked old woman's tofu.
(19) Sting and Tomelty had another child, Fuchsia, but eventually divorced in 1984, and he went on to have four children with Trudie.