(n.) Those parts of a picture in which the human body or any part of it is represented in full color; the flesh tints.
(n.) A species of Dianthus (D. Caryophyllus) or pink, having very beautiful flowers of various colors, esp. white and usually a rich, spicy scent.
Example Sentences:
(1) The method was used to analyze the free amino acid pool in carnation petals.
(2) People brought flowers, and large piles of roses, lilac, tulips and carnations lay by the blackened doors.
(3) • Céline Cousteau is ambassador of the TreadRight Foundation ( treadright.org ), a not-for-profit body established by TTC ( ttc.com ) to encourage sustainable tourism within its family of brands, including Contiki, Trafalgar, Insight Vacations, Uniworld and Red Carnation Hotels
(4) The next day Istanbulus lay carnations on Istiklal.
(5) The sequence of a circular RNA from carnation has been determined and found to consist of 275 nucleotide residues adopting a branched secondary structure of minimum free energy.
(6) Dermal exposure of hands and forearms to pesticides during cutting of carnations can be predicted from measurements of DFR.
(7) In 1988, Nestlé (absent from the US infant formula industry since the 1940s) acquired the Carnation Company and launched an advertising campaign to the general public for its formula products.
(8) The genome organization is very similar to that of carnation mottle virus (CarMV) and turnip crinkle virus (TCV).
(9) A visit to his Scottish high school brought back memories of art classes spent dissecting, examining and drawing buttercups and carnations.
(10) Comparative sequence analysis has revealed that the circular RNA from carnation shares similarities with some representative members of the viroid and viroid-like satellites RNAs from plants, suggesting that it is a new member of either these two groups of small pathogenic RNAs.
(11) The programmed senescence of carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus L.) petals requires active gene expression and is associated with the expression of several senescence-related mRNAs.
(12) Data on 13 traits of 11,260 progeny of 775 sires in the Carnation Genetics linear type appraisal program were analyzed to determine the association between sire dystocia transmitting ability and progeny linear type traits.
(13) There are carnations, tulips and a tub of spring crocuses.
(14) The postulated amino acid sequence of CMeV capsid protein had 36% homology to turnip crinkle virus and 26% homology to carnation mottle virus in the arm and S domains, but western blots showed no serological relationship to either.
(15) The DNA-binding activity was present in nuclear extracts from both presenescent and senescing carnation petals.
(16) This PCR product was used to screen a cDNA library prepared from mRNA isolated from senescing carnation flower petals.
(17) Ten years ago today, a man emerged from prison to be greeted by a crowd of his supporters embracing him with carnations and a crowd of his enemies drawing their fingers across their throats.
(18) Carnation latent virus was shown to direct the synthesis of virus-specific polypeptides in both reticulocyte lysate and wheat germ in vitro translation systems.
(19) It was wrapped in a flag, pink carnations beside a pale, unshaven cheek Later they carried out his body.
(20) Respiratory exposure and dermal exposure of the hands and forearms to the pesticides chlorothalonil, thiophanate-methyl, thiram, and zineb during application and during crop activities have been measured on 18 farms for carnation culture in glass-covered greenhouses in the Netherlands.
Pimpernel
Definition:
(n.) A plant of the genus Anagallis, of which one species (A. arvensis) has small flowers, usually scarlet, but sometimes purple, blue, or white, which speedily close at the approach of bad weather.
Example Sentences:
(1) Even if Clegg's ideas are proving changeable, the party faithful will ensure he remains a yellow rather than a scarlet or blue pimpernel – any decision that affects party independence will have to be agreed by three-quarters of their MPs.
(2) She had secret interviews with Nelson Mandela , then known as the "Black Pimpernel", while he was underground in 1961.
(3) Though Mandela shares little with master spy George Smiley, he earned the nickname "the Black Pimpernel" as he evaded the authorities, Irvin noted.
(4) In the new BBC mockumentary W1A he is known as "his Tonyship, Lord Director General'' and is as elusive as the Scarlet Pimpernel.
(5) Political commentators such as David Marquand have dubbed him the Scarlet Pimpernel.
(6) Straight after the verdict, Mandela went underground, earning himself a reputation as the "black pimpernel" as he stayed one step ahead of the authorities.
(7) An attempt to pin down the Pimpernel by asking him to define his enemies and allies is only partially successful.
(8) Snowden, the most significant whistleblower of modern times, briefly amused London when he turned scarlet pimpernel in the summer; then the capital was intrigued when David Miranda was seized by Heathrow police on bogus "terrorism" charges.
(9) Pimpernel) exhibits a low specificity for the organic moiety of synthetic pyro- and triphosphates.
(10) He was the pimpernel, the odd man out, the great escaper, the prisoner of Rio, the lovable rogue on the run.