(n.) A bivalve mollusk, with radiating ribs, of the genus Cardium, especially C. edule, used in Europe for food; -- sometimes applied to similar shells of other genera.
(n.) A cockleshell.
(n.) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl; -- so called by the Cornish miners.
(n.) The fire chamber of a furnace.
(n.) A hop-drying kiln; an oast.
(n.) The dome of a heating furnace.
(v. t.) To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting.
(n.) A plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose (Luchnis Githage).
(n.) The Lotium, or darnel.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a series of outbreaks of food-poisoning associated with the consumption of cockles, no bacterial pathogens were demonstrable either in faeces of patients or in cockles.
(2) The cockle Cardium tuberculatum responds with a typical escape movement (jumping by foot contractions) when touched by a starfish.
(3) V. cholerae was isolated from 42 per cent of shellfish tested during the epidemic, and an epidemiologic study found that a history of consumption of raw or poorly cooked cockles was significantly more common among cholera patients than among paired controls.
(4) Judging from my records – and in this post-NSA age, you surely know that records are kept of everyone's movements – you have been corresponding with this column for more than eight years now and your steadfastness doesn't just warm my cockles, it roasts them.
(5) A decade on from that terrible night when 23 men and women lost their lives searching for cockles, Hsiao-Hung Pai questions whether a similar tragedy could occur (Remember Morecambe Bay?
(6) The difference between London and a lot of other places is that London has been through it.” Neighbouring the Olympic stadium is Stratford indoor market, where West Indian yams sell alongside Polish sausages, cockles and whelks.
(7) For every cockle-warming group hug, there's Tambor, spewing bile and condescension; for every small child bursting winsomely into song, there he is again, a snout-nosed vision of pompous self-delusion.
(8) Forty-two elements in four standard reference materials and oyster and cockle tissue were analysed by the X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF) method.
(9) The GLA was set up in 2006, in response to the Morecambe Bay tragedy two years earlier, when 23 Chinese cockle pickers drowned.
(10) An investigation was carried out over a one year period to examine jointly the occurrence of faecal bacteria, salmonella and the presence of antigens associated with the hepatitis A virus (HAV) in oysters (Crassostrea gigas), mussels (Mytilus edulis, Mytilus galloprovincialis) and cockles (Cerastoderma edule), taken from 8 shellfish farming areas or natural beds along the French coast.
(11) Consumption of raw and partially-cooked cockles has been associated with both sporadic transmission and periodic outbreaks of hepatitis A.
(12) I was looking forward to celebrating my first clean sheet on Mother’s Day, but now I think I’ll be crying into my glass of wine and I hope I don’t take this out on my grandkids.” In an opening half hour memorable mainly for the bitterness of the south coast cold, neither side created much to warm the cockles.
(13) GC-MS analysis of the sterol trimethylsilyl ethers obtained from the cockle Cerastoderma edule has established the identity and relative proportions of the eleven sterols present.
(14) Watching a flushed Michael Gove perched precariously on the edge of the Conservative front bench at PMQs, the pink petalled corn cockle irresistibly sprang to mind.
(15) It was found that consumption of partially-cooked cockles (Anadara granosa) was significantly associated with the illness (p less than 0.001).
(16) Some argue that, while members of the public should be free to pick cockles, those doing it for a business should be regulated and licensed.
(17) The menu has five white fish, served battered or breaded with chips, but also includes scallops, oysters and classics such as jellied eels, cockles, cracked crab and potted shrimp.
(18) The seafood – Cromer crab, cockles, mussels and oysters – is very local, some coming from the fishermen down on the beach, or the next-door-neighbour "mussel men" who deliver to the kitchen door.
(19) One local resident said that around 500 people a day flocked to the area to pick the cockles, the total value of which is around £6m.
(20) Cockle picking is not illegal, but locals have complained after reports that groups of fishermen from across the UK were flocking to Morecambe Bay.
Edible
Definition:
(a.) Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes.
(n.) Anything edible.
Example Sentences:
(1) Basic foodstuffs, such as flour, sugar and edible oils, are heavily subsidised.
(2) We tested semihardened blends of edible oils, suitable for commercial food manufacture, with a lower-than-conventional saturated fatty acid content, for their effects on plasma cholesterol.
(3) The insecticides did not translocate into the edible parts of the vegetables but were present in the root system of onion and lettuce.
(4) The possibility of incorporating Icacinia manni among the edible starchy plant tubers is discussed.
(5) A simple procedure for the enzymic digestion of edible tissues is described and compared with other procedures.
(6) With a long-term (1 and 4 months) introduction of an additional amount of edible fats (beef, hog fats, butter, sunflower seed oil) to intact and intratracheally quartz-dust laden sexually mature male rats an organ-specific reaction to the supply of fat, and in intact rats, also some peculiarities of the reaction depending upon the kind of the introduced fats, were discovered.
(7) The unsuspecting public may not realise that the call to avoid palm oil is nothing more than a trade ploy since in recent years palm oil has been very competitive and has gained a major share of the world's edible oils and fats market.
(8) Culture of Gambusia along with edible fish in village ponds is, therefore, recommended to get the dual benefit of fish production and control of mosquito proliferation in village ponds.
(9) The longterm solution to vitamin A deficiency is community development and increased consumption of dark green edible plants and red and orange fruits.
(10) Beacon Food Forest, Seattle, Washington, US This Seattle project, called the Beacon Food Forest, is turning public land into an edible forest where residents can forage for fruits, pumpkins and nuts.
(11) Two regions of the brain of the edible snail were stimulated.
(12) Evidence is presented which establishes that mackerel fed in captivity can, by relay from contaminated shellfish via sand eels, accumulate paralytic shellfish poisons (PSP) in the edible flesh at a level (250 micrograms saxitoxin equivalents per kg) similar to that in the contaminated shellfish.
(13) Optimal conditions were chosen for cultivation of Escherichia coli 85 cells with a rather high fumarate-hydratase activity on a cheap medium containing no edible raw material.
(14) Variously billed as edible networking, curry induced knowledge exchange, and a good excuse to eat curry and chat social care, the appetite for curry has surpassed all expectations.
(15) Loliware and WikiFoods have had relatively good success since launching their products this year, but whether people will have an appetite for edible technology as the future of sustainable packaging is yet to be determined.
(16) Runner-up: RISC edible roof garden and alternative kitchen garden Jupiter Big Idea Winner: Naturepaint Naturepaint is a totally natural paint product that comes in a powder form.
(17) separable lean, separable fet, and total edible portions of Choice grade cuts of beef is given, as well as a table acids per 100 gm.
(18) The edible mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus (with locally reported toxic properties) was identified and collected 1-4 days after raining in the city of Baghdad.
(19) Functional movement training avoidance plus edibles and praise produced about 90% attention for the three children, while edibles and praise alone were less effective (eye contact never exceeded 55%).
(20) Nutrient composition and biologic utilization of cooked, dried, and ground meals prepared from fresh and field-dried, green-seeded edible soybeans were evaluated.