(n.) A genus of iridaceous plants, with pretty blossoms rising separately from the bulb or corm. C. vernus is one of the earliest of spring-blooming flowers; C. sativus produces the saffron, and blossoms in the autumn.
(n.) A deep yellow powder; the oxide of some metal calcined to a red or deep yellow color; esp., the oxide of iron (Crocus of Mars or colcothar) thus produced from salts of iron, and used as a polishing powder.
Example Sentences:
(1) The likes of almond, blackberry and crocus first made way for analogue, block graph and celebrity in the Oxford Junior Dictionary in 2007, with protests at the time around the loss of a host of religious words such as bishop, saint and sin.
(2) The hay was heavily contaminated by autumn crocus (colchicum autumnale)--about 1.48% of total mass.
(3) When the imaging circumstances are such that a high signal level is available, CROCUS imaging can be an effective means of reducing imaging time.
(4) Antitumor activity of saffron (Crocus sativus) extract a commonly used spice in India was studied against intraperitoneally transplanted sarcoma-180 (S-180), Ehrlich ascites Carcinoma (EAC) and Dalton's lymphoma ascites (DLA) tumours in mice.
(5) There are carnations, tulips and a tub of spring crocuses.
(6) It’s a far cry from the streets of San Diego, but for Artur, the early morning trip to Moscow’s Crocus Centre is a pilgrimage like no other.
(7) Bulbs of Crocus sativus variety Cartwrightianus were found to contain both a platelet aggregation inducer and inhibitor.
(8) A concentrated extract of saffron was prepared from the flowers of Crocus sativis.
(9) A circular hike around these seemingly barren peaks reveals unexpected treasures: twisted oak trees, carpets of red and blue anemones in the spring, crocuses and cyclamen, even field mushrooms in the autumn, an ancient temple dedicated to Demeter and an abandoned monastery with beautiful Byzantine frescoes.
(10) Trump did collect a a share of the $14m paid by investors including Aras Agalarov, a Azerbaijani-Russian billionaire property developer and close Putin associate, for bringing Miss Universe to Agalarov’s 7,500-seat Crocus City Hall.
(11) The conjugate reconstruction by off-center under-sampling (CROCUS) method samples only every other phase-encoded line in raw data space and uses the conjugate symmetry of the data to reconstruct a real image.
(12) In September we walked through a carpet of purple crocuses and exuberant thistles.
(13) Extract of saffron (Crocus sativis) has previously been shown to inhibit colony formation and cellular DNA and RNA synthesis by HeLa cells in vitro.
(14) The CROCUS method incorporates a correction technique, similar to that used in other half-Fourier methods, which uses low-resolution phase-shift information obtained from a few extra lines of phase-encoded data.
Powder
Definition:
(n.) The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust.
(n.) An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder. See Gunpowder.
(v. t.) To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder; to comminute; to pulverize; to triturate.
(v. t.) To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder; to be sprinkle; as, to powder the hair.
(v. t.) To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat.
(v. i.) To be reduced to powder; to become like powder; as, some salts powder easily.
(v. i.) To use powder on the hair or skin; as, she paints and powders.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sift the cocoa powder over the top and lightly but thoroughly fold it in with the metal spoon.
(2) Thus, enhancers are required to obtain significant nasal absorption of glucagon and calcitonin and powders and spray solutions did not differ in terms of systemic availability.
(3) On the other hand, immunofluorescence in anterior pituitary cells was faint and detected in only 2 of 28 patients with Graves' disease (7.1%) after absorption of their sera with rat liver aceton powder.
(4) High intensity ultrasound also enhances the heterogeneous catalysis of alkene hydrogenation by Ni powders.
(5) Rat heart acid acetone powder was subjected to ion exchange chromatography on CM-cellulose.
(6) The conformational similarity between tubules, sheets, and the dry powder is corroborated by calorimetry, which reveals a cooling exotherm at the same temperature where tubules form upon cooling hydrated sheets.
(7) Eight patients were seen within 15 minutes of intranasal self-administration of large amounts of pure D-lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) tartrate powder.
(8) As soon as the component with the lower mechanical stability is percolating the powder system, tablet hardness is controlled entirely by this component.
(9) During powder compaction on a Manesty Betapress, peak pressures, Pmax, are reached before the punches are vertically aligned with the centres of the upper and lower compression roll support pins.
(10) Plasma cholesterol concentrations in F1b-generation rats were elevated, but cocoa powder did not affect this parameter consistently across multiple generations.
(11) In a trial with rams, application of polyethylene powder (PE) as a marker for determination of feed passage rate through the digestive tract and three methods of its determination in feed and feces were tested.
(12) Physical and technological parameters of carfecillin powder and carfecillin with auxiliary substances in the form of the powder mixture and granulate were studied comparatively.
(13) Treatment animals had the anastomoses and graft sealed with a suspension of N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate and 1.2 g tobramycin powder (antibiotic glue, ANGL) after contamination.
(14) A suspension of 0.6 mg polyvinyl alcohol foam powder per milliliter of normal saline was found to be optimum.
(15) The allogenic implantation of demineralized bone powder induces the formation of new bone tissue or osteoneogenesis.
(16) The ICSAs were significantly absorbed with mouse islet cells but hardly absorbed with spleen cells or liver powder.
(17) Thus, with elution by either ATP or pyrophosphate, actin has been purified in one step from extracts of acetone-dried muscle powder.
(18) An analysis of variance of saliva levels and urinary excretion as well as an analysis of variance of peak concentration and the area under the curve from 0 to 24 hr for the saliva levels showed no significant difference between the powder and products, but a significant difference between subjects.
(19) In contact toxicity tests with water dispersible powder deposits on plywood, propoxur was highly active initially but lost its effectiveness after only a few weeks, whereas tetrachlorvinphos was less active initially but more persistent.
(20) Completely demineralized root powder was subjected to solutions of varying pH and ionic strength: (a) 0.1 M acetic acid, pH 4.0, (b) 0.1 M acetic acid + 0.15 M KCl, pH 4.0, (c) 0.1 M Hepes, pH 7.0 or to (d) 0.1 M Hepes + 0.15 M KCl, pH 7.0 at 37 degrees C. The surfaces of intact root specimens were exposed to 0.1 M acetic acid, pH 4.0 (which resulted in erosive lesions) or to 0.1 M lactic acid, 0.2 mM methane hydroxy diphosphonate, pH 5.0 (which produced subsurface lesions) at 37 degrees C. After incubation, the extracts were analysed for soluble collagen and the insoluble matrices were treated with trypsin at 15 degrees C to determine the denatured collagen.