(n.) An evergreen leguminous tree (Ceratania Siliqua) found in the countries bordering the Mediterranean; the St. John's bread; -- called also carob tree.
(n.) One of the long, sweet, succulent, pods of the carob tree, which are used as food for animals and sometimes eaten by man; -- called also St. John's bread, carob bean, and algaroba bean.
Example Sentences:
(1) The length of small intestine, large intestine and caeca and the weight of gizzard expressed per kg of body weight increased with an increase in the level of carob pods meal, which is rich in fibre, in the diets.
(2) Fusarium moniliforme was cultured semicontinuously on a carob medium in a 14-liter fermentor (8.5-liter working volume).
(3) The extent to which tea, cocoa and carob (foods rich in polyphenols) influence fecal nitrogen (N) excretion was investigated in rats.
(4) With extracts of tea and carob, however, the increased excretion of N in feces resulted either from a decreased digestibility of other dietary protein, through interaction with their polyphenols, or from a stimulation of the excretion of endogenous (body) nitrogen.
(5) 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.
(6) The gums studied were tragacanth, karaya, ghatti, carob, guar, arabic and xanthan gum.
(7) The quinta, whose name means “estate of the carob tree”, lies a mile outside the village, on top of a sandy hill.
(8) spectroscopy has been used to investigate the carob galactomannan-kappa carrageenan binary gels.
(9) Fortunately the dog seems miraculously OK after his chocolate liqueur (it was probably carob).
(10) The central Algarve coastline has been relentlessly developed, but even here there are havens of old Portugal with its carob, fig and almond trees, where time treads softly and slowly and life’s pleasures are priced with locals in mind.
(11) The diets contained 10% of gum guar (GG), carob bean gum (CBG), Na-alginate (Na-A), agar-agar (AA) or carrageenan (C), respectively.
(12) X-ray fibre diffraction studies of furcellaran-carob, furcellaran-tara, and furcellaran-konjac mannan mixed gels have failed to reveal any evidence for the predicted intermolecular binding between the algal polysaccharide helix and the galactomannan or glucomannan (konjac) mannan).
(13) From tofu and tamari to carob and chickpeas, the axis of the vegetarian shopping list is heavily skewed to global.
(14) We tasted varieties from the vats – heady orange blossom, rich carob, lavender, and thyme – and drank several shots of melosa , a honey-infused medronho , the local liquor made from the fruit of the strawberry tree.
(15) Digoxin was given together with a formula diet containing as admixture, respectively, wheat bran, microcrystalline cellulose, pectin, carrageenan, and carob seed flour.
(16) A simple assay procedure for beta-D-mannanase enzyme has been developed which employs carob D-galacto-D-mannan dyed with Remazolbrilliant Blue.
(17) In 11 normal female subjects, ages 19 to 22 years, the postprandial serum vitamin A concentration was measured 3, 5, 7, and 9 hr after oral administration 300,000 IU vitamin A-palmitate given with a formula diet to which was added 40 g wheat bran, 40 g microcrystalline cellulose, 15 g apple pectin, 15 g guar flour, 15 g carob bean flour, or 20 g carrageenan.
(18) Birds flitted in and out of the olive trees and shadows drowsed around the swimming pool beneath the ancient carob tree.
(19) After carob seed flour, the concentrations were significantly (P less than 5%) higher, as compared to the control.
(20) The growth medium provided 2.4% carob sugar, 0.72% NH4H2PO4, and 0.03% MgSO4-7H2O.
Mediterranean
Definition:
(a.) Inclosed, or nearly inclosed, with land; as, the Mediterranean Sea, between Europe and Africa.
(a.) Inland; remote from the ocean.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Mediterranean Sea; as, Mediterranean trade; a Mediterranean voyage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Six marine bacteria which synthesize macromolecular antibiotics were isolated from neritic waters on the French Mediterranean coast, and their frequency recorded over two successive years.
(2) The authors report a resurgence of this disease during the last years, with a 5 human cases per 100,000 annual prevalence and a 6 per cent of rate death, the most active part of mediterranean area appears to be the region of Grand-Kabylie.
(3) It is now recognized that dwarfism in males is frequent around the Mediterranean, where wheat is the staple of life and has been grown for 4,000 years on the same soil, thereby resulting in the depletion of zinc.
(4) Among possible causes for the increase in deaths in the Mediterranean this year, the agency cited a worsening quality of vessels and smugglers’ tactics to avoid detection by authorities, such as sending many boats out at the same time, which makes the work of rescuers harder.
(5) The functional and phyletic significance of this material reveals a complex pattern of behavioral and phyletic diversity among large-bodied catarrhines in Europe and suggests that this diversity evolved in situ from circum-Mediterranean middle Miocene ancestors.
(6) Mediterranean countries, parts of southern Africa and South America would experience 20% to 30% less water availability.
(7) This condition is a genodermatosis, seen chiefly around the shores of the Mediterranean, characterised by early pigment disturbances which progress virtually inexorably towards a diffuse epitheliomatosis which usually results in death before the age of 20 years.
(8) A variety of sources can account for marine pollution by genotoxic, carcinogenic, and teratogenic compounds, but there is a relative paucity of analytical data concerning the Mediterranean.
(9) Vigils have been held in Cairo for the victims of EgyptAir flight 804 as a French navy ship headed to join the deep-sea search in the Mediterranean for the main wreckage and flight recorders.
(10) Novel structural changes in members of the serum amyloid A (SAA) gene family have been found in four patients of varied ethnic backgrounds with familial Mediterranean fever.
(11) Up to 100 children may have died in the weekend’s catastrophic shipwreck in the Mediterranean, a relief agency has said as prosecutors in Sicily arrested the alleged commander of the wooden fishing vessel and a member of his crew.
(12) This was equivalent to nearly nearly half the number rescued last May, a month which saw an unprecedented level of migration in the Mediterranean.
(13) Cases of cystic echinococcosis (E. granulosus) diagnosed in Central Europe are often imported from mediterranean countries.
(14) Anything that good for you might be expected to smell foul and come in a medicine bottle, but the Mediterranean diet is generally considered to be delicious, except by those who hate olive oil.
(15) Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) died young, had a public career for only 10 years, had no workshop, bequeathed no drawings and left no pupils, and the only places he travelled to outside mainland Italy were the Mediterranean speck of Malta and, briefly, Sicily.
(16) About one-third of our postmastectomy patients are corpulent, middle-aged women with "Mediterranean" body structures.
(17) The northern Mediterranean has been Europe's soft underbelly during the crisis.
(18) They belonged to two ethnic groups--Mediterranean and Asian--and 53% were under the age of 6 years, the oldest being 20 years.
(19) Mediterranean patients (N = 16) had features intermediary between the two other groups.
(20) A C----T mutation at nucleotide 563 of G6PD Mediterranean has been identified by Vulliamy et al., and the same mutation has been found by De Vita et al.