(n.) A kind of food used by the natives of Western Africa, made of millet flour with flesh, and leaves of the baobab; -- called also lalo.
Example Sentences:
(1) Head chef Christopher Gould (a UK Masterchef quarter-finalist) puts his own stamp on traditional Spanish fare with the likes of mushroom-and-truffle croquettes and suckling Málaga goat with couscous.
(2) The director, best known for his 2007 film, Couscous , said he would be willing to contemplate some cuts in Blue is the Warmest Colour to allow the widest possible audience to see the work.
(3) Dates, Medjool or not, are fantastic in tagines of lamb or chicken, chopped into couscous or sliced into salads, particularly those containing some salty cheese and perhaps a bit of citrus.
(4) On the table are large and tasty sharing plates of Moroccan dishes such as tagine and couscous.
(5) Though that's another brilliant thing about MN, where else would you find instructions for fixing a broken leg using only drinking straws and a bowl of stale couscous?
(6) Just yesterday I found some three-day-old cod, and within minutes of asking I had 20 recipes, the couscous and olive one I would absolutely have tried, except there was an online chat with Vince Cable, a bit humourless when borntorun told him she'd had an erotic dream about him literally five hours earlier, but he did sign up to MN's Let Pants Be Pants campaign, fighting for no frills on girls' underwear *fist punch*.
(7) Serve on a bed of couscous with the parsley scattered over and a dollop of yoghurt on the side.
(8) Photograph: Kate Berry A handful of vegetables, early garlic, eggplant, zucchini, onion and pasata make a simple veg stew; add some fresh-cut parsley to a generous serving of couscous and you’ll soon see a happy man.
(9) Here are instructions for Iraqi date-filled pies, Tunisian couscous cakes and quinces in wine.
(10) In a second time 6 IDDM patients have eaten in a randomised order a meal made of pasta with tomato sauce (P = 11%, F = 30%, G = 59%) or couscous with vegetables and sauce (P = 10%, F = 37%, G = 53%).
(11) A dish of chicory with grapes that makes a perfect side order for air-dried ham and yet could be served as a principal dish; a bunch of spring carrots with a spicy dressing that could be considered as an accompaniment to grilled lamb or a main course with couscous.
(12) So on the menu there are wines and oysters from the temperate south of the country and new strains of rice (one a mini variety that looks a bit like couscous, another black and crunchy) that he has developed with a farmer in São Paulo state.
(13) After the photocall, the two had private talks then strolled to a separate tent for a lunch of olives and salad, followed by fish couscous.
(14) And anyway, according to surveys, France’s favourite dish is couscous.
(15) The male African lion, a four-year-old male named Couscous, had been raised from a cub at Cat Haven, said Tanya Osegueda, a spokeswoman for Project Survival, the nonprofit organisation that operates the animal park.
(16) Uncooked couscous in water, couscous incorporated in a meal, and partially cooked macaroni given as a meal behaved as semilente carbohydrates as compared with uncooked cornstarch and glucose.
(17) After a feast of harira, tagine, couscous and copious wine, histories were shared and stories told.
(18) There's traditional couscous on Thursday lunchtimes too.
(19) In the bare kitchen of their home in the overcrowded Beach refugee camp, Amal Sharif, 45, bends over a steaming pan of maftoul – stewed chicken with couscous – as the younger of her 10 children run in and out in excited anticipation.
(20) The influence of a diet of couscous with chickpeas, a traditional Tunisian meal, or one providing iron as ferrous sulfate, on the utilization of 59Fe was evaluated in studies with rats.
Origin
Definition:
(n.) The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.
(n.) That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain; the spring; the cause; the occasion.
(n.) The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; -- in contradistinction to insertion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our results suggest that the peripheral sensitivity to hypoxia declined more than that to CO2, implying a peripheral chemoreceptor origin for hypoxic ventilatory decline.
(2) These immunocytochemical studies clearly demonstrated that cells encountered within the fibrous intimal thickening in the vein graft were inevitably smooth muscle cell in origin.
(3) The nuclear origin of the Ha antigen was confirmed by the speckled nuclear immunofluorescence staining pattern given by purified antibody to Ha obtained from a specific immune precipitate.
(4) The origin of the aorta and pulmonary artery from the right ventricle is a complicated and little studied congenital cardiac malformation.
(5) The origins of aging of higher forms of life, particularly humans, is presented as the consequence of an evolved balance between 4 specific kinds of dysfunction-producing events and 4 kinds of evolved counteracting effects in long-lived forms.
(6) These cells contained organelles characteristic of the maturation stage ameloblast and often extended to the enamel surface, suggesting a possible origin from the ameloblast layer.
(7) We conclude that chloramphenicol resistance encoded by Tn1696 is due to a permeability barrier and hypothesize that the gene from P. aeruginosa may share a common ancestral origin with these genes from other gram-negative organisms.
(8) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(9) Plasma NPY correlated better with plasma norepinephrine than with epinephrine, indicating its origin from sympathetic nerve terminals.
(10) Interadjudicator agreement was stronger on 'originality' than on 'aesthetic pleasingness'.
(11) One rare case of blind-ending branch originating in the upper third of the ureter are described.
(12) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(13) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
(14) The condition is compared to extrahepatic and intrahepatic biliary atresia of man and evidence is presented for regarding this case to be one of extrahepatic origin.
(15) The position of the cyst supports the theory that branchial cysts are congenital in origin.
(16) heterografts of GW-39, a CEA-producing colonic tumor of human origin, was demonstrated in radioimmunoassay using radioiodinated CEA purified from GW-39.
(17) The committee reviewed the history, original intent, current purpose, and effectiveness of meetings held on the unit; when problems were identified, suggestions for change were formulated.
(18) The relative strength of the progressions varies with excitation wavelength and this, together with the absence of a common origin, indicates the existence of two independent emitting states with 0-0' levels separated by either 300 or 1000 cm-1.
(19) Sickle and normal discocytes both showed membrane elasticity with reversion to original cell shape following release of the cell from its aspirated position at the pipette tip.
(20) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.