(n.) A shrubby euphorbiaceous plant of the genus Manihot, with fleshy rootstocks yielding an edible starch; -- called also manioc.
(n.) A nutritious starch obtained from the rootstocks of the cassava plant, used as food and in making tapioca.
Example Sentences:
(1) Assessment of nutritional status of vitamin B components by plasma or blood levels indicated riboflavin deficiency and possibly thiamine deficiency in Nigerian patients who suffered from tropical ataxic neuropathy and neurologically normal Nigerians who subsisted on predominant cassava diet.
(2) The staples of the poor consisted of one or two bulky carbohydrate meals (derivatives of different species of cocoyam, cassava, yam and maize) eaten with vegetable soup in palm oil, melon seeds, snail, occasional meat and fish.
(3) Rural farmers like Kallon – whose rice, cocoa and cassava fields account for nearly half Sierra Leone's gross domestic production – are among the hardest-hit in the economic fallout of the world's biggest Ebola epidemic.
(4) It is working with Unilever to source cassava from small farmers in Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon, to make industrial starch.
(5) Growing dogs were divided into three groups and were fed on a control (rice) diet, a diet in which cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz; gari) was used as the carbohydrate source, and the rice diet to which cyanide (equivalent to that present in gari) was added.
(6) To ascertain the role of diet in the aetiology of mucoid vasculopathy, groups of bonnet monkeys were fed protein-deficient normal carbohydrate, or protein-deficient high-carbohydrate tapioca (cassava) starch based diets or control diets of normal protein and carbohydrate for 3 or 5 months periods.
(7) To test the hypothesis that consumption of cassava with liberation of cyanide causes diabetes in malnourished individuals.
(8) However, during the planting I noticed that farmers were still throwing two pieces of cassava stem in each hole.
(9) Epidemics in East Africa have been attributed to dietary cyanide exposure from insufficiently processed cassava but a study done in Zaire disputed such an aetiology.
(10) Cassava, maize, and rice are the staple foods that are grown.
(11) About 85% of the study population consumed cassava root at least once a day.
(12) 2,6-Diaminopimelic acid (DAPA), an indicator of bacterial mass, was highest in the cassava group.
(13) Thiocyanate overload originating from consumption of poorly detoxified cassava is such that this goitrogenic factor aggravates a relative or a severe iodine deficiency.
(14) Several other promoters and regulating sequences were tested for efficiency in cassava leaves.
(15) The method was used to survey 296 samples that included 10 cultivars of dried beans, 8 types of corn products, 3 types of cassava flour, and both polished and parboiled rice between May 1985 and June 1986 in Campinas, Brazil.
(16) A causative role for cassava and kwashiorkor is improbable.
(17) The 4- and 24-hr thyroid uptakes of mice on cassava were similar to those of mice on low iodine diets.
(18) In August, the post-harvest season, rice dominated the food pattern and often replaced the porridge made from maize or cassava.
(19) Linamarase (EC 3.2.1.21) was purified from cassava petiole, stem, and root cortex by ammonium sulfate precipitation, column chromatography on Sepharose 6B, and chromatofocusing.
(20) Ultrastructural examination of leaf tissue of Nicotiana benthamiana infected with Indian cassava mosaic virus (ICMV) revealed abnormalities in phloem and, occasionally, xylem cells.
Yucca
Definition:
(n.) See Flicker, n., 2.
(n.) A genus of American liliaceous, sometimes arborescent, plants having long, pointed, and often rigid, leaves at the top of a more or less woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms.
Example Sentences:
(1) An aqueous alcoholic extract of fresh flowers of Yucca glauca Nutt.
(2) Jaczko's decision to halt work on Yucca Mountain put him at odds with Republicans in Congress and the nuclear industry who, in the pre-Fukushima era, were hoping to build a series of new reactors, after a 30-year hiatus.
(3) A hitherto undescribed ballistosporous yeast was isolated from a dead leaf of Yucca sp.
(4) Walking through the yucca strands and mesquite branches, in the rust-and-gold shadow of the vortex site known as Cathedral Rock; listening to the sound of another traveller’s panpipes on the top of Airport Mesa; sneaking away from a tour to close my eyes and feel the scorching sun on my skin, sitting alone with a book and (mercifully strong) coffee at the Oak Creek Brewery and Grill hearing the creek murmur in the distance – all these provoke a sensation as close to mindfulness as any I’d experienced.
(5) Today, the equipment at the yucca plant is silent and rusting.
(6) At the end of a drive to Yucca, Arizona, 200 miles south-east of Vegas, we swung through the ranch gate and climbed out to a laconic “Howdy” from a cowpoke who introduced himself as Tex, the head wrangler.
(7) He is as Texan as the yucca plants growing outside his house.
(8) • Point Reyes links campsites , whale watching , hiking Joshua Tree national park Photograph: Alamy The park was named after the otherworldly trees that dot the landscape – actually an unusually tall species of yucca – but the real stars here are the rock formations: jumbled piles of outsize boulders that glitter with crystals in the southern Californian sun.
(9) The Obama administration has blocked a 22-year project to dump waste from reactors in Nevada's Yucca Mountain.
(10) Left unresolved was the government's claim that Bundy owes more than $1.1m in fees and penalties for letting some 900 cows trespass for 20 years on arid rangeland of scrub brush, mesquite, cheat grass and yucca near the rustic town of Bunkerville, about 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas.
(11) The tensions with fellow regulators began almost immediately when Jaczko, following a White House lead, began shutting down a project to bury nuclear waste in Nevada's Yucca Mountain.
(12) Yucca saponin fed in a concentration of 63 ppm to turkey poults at 6 to 14 weeks of age did not significantly improve weight gains, feed conversion, or digestive coefficients.
(13) Public opposition is high — as successive U.S. governments have discovered whenever the burial ground at Yucca Mountain in Nevada is discussed — and the cost of construction will be huge.
(14) They were encouraged to plant yucca, which would be processed in a new drying plant.
(15) • Rua Gago Coutinho 51, +55 21 2556 0638 Bar do Adão, city-wide Bar do Adão offers huge portions of Carioca (Rio) favourites, like the escondidinho (£7), a yucca-root lined dish filled with a meat (beef, chicken, shrimp, or cod) and topped with a crispy layer of parmesan.
(16) "The administration is also stuck on a solution for nuclear waste, after shutting down plans to bury the waste in the Yucca Mountain range in Nevada.
(17) But President Obama drastically cut the partnership's funding, while also halting work on the planned Yucca Mountain geological repository.
(18) The yucca flour would then be bought up by a new animal feed plant.
(19) The structures of the new steroidal saponins (tentatively named YS-XI, -XII and -XIII) have been isolated from the caudex of Yucca gloriosa and characterized as 3-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl-(1----2)-beta-D-galactopyranosyl 5 beta- (25R)-spirostan-3 beta, 12 beta-diol, 3-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl-(1----2)- [beta-D-glucopyranosyl-(1----3)]-beta-D-glucopyranosyl 5 beta- (25R)-spirostan-3 beta, 12 beta-diol and 3-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl-(1----2)- beta-D-galactopyranosyl 5 beta-(25R)-spirostan-2 beta,3 beta,12 beta-triol, respectively.
(20) Eight new steroidal glycosides, tentatively named YS-VI, -VII, -VIII, -IX, -X, -XI, -XII and -XIII were isolated from the caudex of Yucca gloriosa along with P-1, YG-2 and YG-3 previously obtained from flowers.