(n.) A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services.
(n.) The projecting part of a Classic cornice, the under side of which is cut with a recess or channel so as to form a drip. See Illust. of Column.
(n.) The upper surface of some part, as of a tooth or the skull; a crown.
(n.) The shelly skeleton of a sea urchin.
(n.) A peculiar luminous appearance, or aureola, which surrounds the sun, and which is seen only when the sun is totally eclipsed by the moon.
(n.) An inner appendage to a petal or a corolla, often forming a special cup, as in the daffodil and jonquil.
(n.) Any crownlike appendage at the top of an organ.
(n.) A circle, usually colored, seen in peculiar states of the atmosphere around and close to a luminous body, as the sun or moon.
(n.) A peculiar phase of the aurora borealis, formed by the concentration or convergence of luminous beams around the point in the heavens indicated by the direction of the dipping needle.
(n.) A crown or circlet suspended from the roof or vaulting of churches, to hold tapers lighted on solemn occasions. It is sometimes formed of double or triple circlets, arranged pyramidically. Called also corona lucis.
(n.) A character [/] called the pause or hold.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study, data obtained by observations on the loss of association between the oocyte (with karyosphere) and corona radiata cells are evaluated.
(2) Oocyte maturity was graded on a scale from 1 to 5 based on the morphology of the ooplasm, cumulus mass, corona radiata, and membrana granulosa cells.
(3) Immediately before in vitro insemination, the oocytes were divided into three types with different follicle cells: denuded and corona- and cumulus-enclosed oocytes.
(4) The definition of anatomic and clinical correlates to AchA stroke is aided by CT-MRI findings and reveals an unexpected superior extension of infarct to include the periventricular caudate nucleus and inferior corona radiata.
(5) In the present study a 13.5-kV corona discharge ionizing generator was used in order to investigate the effect of ions on the microbial air pollution of the dental clinic.
(6) These results confirm the previous suggestion that NPDLL arises from a cell type that is a normal constituent of follicular centers, whereas MZL arises from the lymphocytic corona.
(7) Follicular development was induced by human menopausal gonadotropin, and maturation of retrieved oocytes was assessed by the degree of cumulus mucification and corona dispersal.
(8) Parasites labeled with periodate and fluorescein-thiosemicarbazide and then transformed had a corona of fluorescence containing microvilli, much of which was shed onto the slide.
(9) Most of the fecal samples, containing corona viruses, agglutinate mice, rat and hamster erythrocytes.
(10) CT scan revealed an abnormal high density area protruding into the right lateral ventricle, and a low density area at the right corona radiata.
(11) Central arteries from the anterior spinal artery and penetrating vessels from the vasa coronae provide blood directly to the cord.
(12) Any tariff we can levy they can levy.” Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) Simply put, any policy proposal which drives up costs of Corona, tequila, or margaritas is a big-time bad idea.
(13) Corona viruses belong to a group of not yet well known viruses isolated in patients with infections of the upper respiratory organs, especially in winter months.
(14) This microvillous arrangement greatly increases contact between the oocyte and corona cells, and suggests a coordinated reciprocal control of the activities of both cell types.
(15) The 12 radiologic signs of the corona complex have each been produced experimentally in vitro in animals and in vivo in humans during electrochemical treatment of cancers.
(16) Astrocytes were first detected at E(embryonic day) 18, forming a corona of processes around the optic disc.
(17) Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a lesion in the right corona radiata.
(18) Following an infarction involving the left putamen and corona radiata, a 58-year-old right-handed man developed micrographia with the right hand, right facial palsy, right hand clumsiness and slight aphasia.
(19) Microtubules and tubulin subunits will associate with kinetochores in vitro after extraction with 150 mM KI, suggesting that other functionally significant, corona-associated molecules remain unextracted.
(20) Corona markedly improved intraobserver (p less than 0.005) and interobserver (p less than 0.001) reproducibility.
Daffodil
Definition:
(n.) A plant of the genus Asphodelus.
(n.) A plant of the genus Narcissus (N. Pseudo-narcissus). It has a bulbous root and beautiful flowers, usually of a yellow hue. Called also daffodilly, daffadilly, daffadowndilly, daffydowndilly, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) They were a small bunch of daffodils and now they're blooming.
(2) I never saw daffodils so beautiful they grew among the mossy stones about & about them, some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness & the rest tossed & reeled & danced & seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the Lake Wordsworth’s I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud set a new world record for mass recitation in 2004, when 250,000 school children across the UK read his poem inspired by the daffodils.
(3) They've sought fossils in Charmouth, learned to swim at Lulworth Cove, charged up Golden Cap and danced in the daffodils at the top of Colmers Hill.
(4) Wildflowers burst forth again in November, and in December there have been reports of daffodils budding and blooming in sheltered areas, while growers in south-west England are already harvesting brassicas like cauliflower which they would expect to mature in spring.
(5) A report this week about a strawberry grower’s fears over his seasonal workforce was yet more evidence that the corporation is giving too much airtime to “Bremoaners”, when readers of the Daily Mail and other newspapers know that a post-Brexit Britain will be all sunshine and daffodils.
(6) To one side of the house a large grassy bank, covered with daffodils at this time of year, sloped down to the lane.
(7) In the car park outside, busloads of oblivious Japanese and American tourists pulled in for their 20-minute tour of the Wordsworth residence and a visit to the gift shop to stock up on daffodil memorabilia.
(8) Around 50% of the trust's annual £1.4m budget is self-generated, coming from the daffodil mugs and tea towels as well as admission prices.
(9) She has posted a recipe on her husband's website and, campaigning with Mitt on St David's Day in Georgia, wore a dress detailed with daffodils and publicly delighted in a 'care package' of the griddle cakes, sent to her by her daughter-in-law, also of Welsh descent.
(10) The floral-emblem £1 coins, which began last year with a rose for England and a daffodil for Wales, will continue with the addition of coins featuring a thistle for Scotland and a flax plant for Northern Ireland.
(11) A personal favourite is Warkworth, best experienced when the Daffodils are in full bloom.
(12) In the last year I've been a sheep, a farmer, a daffodil, a schoolgirl and a Disney princess.
(13) The fields around the town of Spalding are as green and fertile as ever, the verges are smothered in daffodils and the vast sky that sits above it all is the treacherous blue-grey of the early English spring.
(14) On the other hand, all branched trisaccharides exhibited very similar inhibitory potencies toward the daffodil lectin (NPA)-D-mannan interaction, whereas alpha-D-Manp-(1----3)-[alpha-D-Galp-(1----6)]-alpha-D-ManpOMe++ + and alpha-D-Manp-(1----3)-[alpha-D-Manp-(1----6)]-alpha-D-Man pOMe were somewhat better inhibitors than the other branched trisaccharides of the amaryllis lectin (HHA)-D-mannan precipitation reaction.
(15) Daffodils and tulips and flowering trees.” Clinton isn’t running against a credible Democratic opponent.
(16) They trailed past a row of daffodils and through the dented metal door back into their school.
(17) I still had a job but found myself in a field of daffodils on the Sassoon Estate at Middlesex Trent Park where I made the best decision of my life, to get myself an education.
(18) The qualitative and quantitative distribution of carotenoids of the floral parts of three monocotyledons, the narcissus Scarlet Elegance, the daffodil King Alfred and the tulip Golden Harvest, were studied.
(19) Christine is showing off her mental arithmetic and that daffodil is trying to build its part up.
(20) Death "I had a letter from her about four days before she died in which she said she was going to compere a poetry reading at the Roundhouse , she'd been invited to be on The Critics, and she'd be back at Court Green 'in time for my daffodils'.