(n.) A creeping plant, and its fruit, of several species of the genus Cucumis, esp. Cucumis sativus, the unripe fruit of which is eaten either fresh or picked. Also, similar plants or fruits of several other genera. See below.
Example Sentences:
(1) The antibiotic is effective in control of cucumber root rot under hydroponic cultivation conditions.
(2) One of the precipitating MAbs recognized an epitope which appears to be common to AMV and cucumber mosaic virus.
(3) Soft organic material (meat, cucumber peels) was found in four patients, chicken bones in six, pins and needles in six, other nonorganic materials (toys, stone, broken thermometer) in six.
(4) The cucumber malate synthase (MS) gene, including 1856 bp of 5' non-transcribed sequence, has been transferred into Petunia (Mitchell) and Nicotiana plumbaginifolia plants using an Agrobacterium binary vector.
(5) Six amino acid sequences for trypsin inhibitors isolated from squash, summer squash, zucchini, and cucumber seeds were determined.
(6) To determine the structural requirements for cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) satellites to elicit lethal tomato necrosis, three satellite variants D, S and Y were used in the construction and cloning of chimeric cDNAs.
(7) As examples the conformational transitions of viroids, double-stranded RNA from reovirus, double-stranded satellite RNA from cucumber mosaic virus and repressor-operator complexes have been studied.
(8) Thylakoid membranes of cucumber, a typical chilling-sensitive plant, have been found to have a higher proportion of motionally restricted lipids and a different lipid selectivity for lipid-protein interaction, as compared with those of pea, a typical chilling-resistant plant.
(9) 4 Put the lettuce leaves in another bowl, cucumber sticks in another and bamboo shoots in another.
(10) Customers prefer Guatemalan vegetables because "they are bigger, cleaner and last longer" than local produce, says market seller Pedro Antonio Morales as he sprinkles the broccoli, cabbage, cucumber and tomatoes with water to combat the afternoon heat.
(11) Turkish Samsun NN plants were transformed with a modified and truncated replicase gene encoded by RNA-2 of cucumber mosaic virus strain Fny.
(12) Coelomic cells from the sea cucumber Caudina (Molpadia) arenicola contain four major globins, A, B, C and D. The hemoglobins from this organism show unusual ligand-linked dissociation properties.
(13) Control of the flowering habit simplifies the production of hybrid seed and offers the possibility of enhancing cucumber yields.
(14) Designations which can be used to describe distinct viroids within the four groups include (i) CEVd-g, a grapevine isolate of citrus exocortis viroid, (ii) GVd-c, a grapevine viroid recovered from cucumber, and AGVd, Australian grapevine viroid, (iii) GYSVd-1 and GYSVd-2, two viroids inducing yellow speckle disease and (iv) HSVd-g, a grapevine isolate of hop stunt viroid.
(15) The relationship of these 3 viruses to cucumber mosiac virus proved to be more distant.
(16) The in vitro translation products directed by cucumber necrosis virus (CNV) RNA were analysed in both rabbit reticulocyte lysate and wheatgerm extract cell-free translation systems.
(17) These metabolic differences are explained by the presence of strong biosynthetic interconnections between the divinyl and monovinyl monocarboxylic routes, prior to divinyl protochlorophyllide formation, in barley but not in cucumber.
(18) This similarity may be involved in one or more of the biological properties these two viruses share, such as the ability to infect cucumbers naturally and to be transmitted by the soil-inhabiting fungus Olpidium radicale.
(19) The sequence of lx-satRNA, a CMV-satRNA necrogenic for tomato that shows the unusual property of accumulating in cucumber and in squash to levels similar to those in tomato and in tobacco, was determined.
(20) Reduction process of cucumber ascorbate oxidase with L-ascorbate was investigated in detail through absorption and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectra under anaerobic condition.
Gherkin
Definition:
(n.) A kind of small, prickly cucumber, much used for pickles.
(n.) See Sea gherkin.
Example Sentences:
(1) A putative non-diffusible inhibitor isolated from dark-grown gherkin hypocotyls inhibited the homogeneously purified mustard lyase.
(2) It will certainly become – is already – a London landmark and will take its place on T-shirts and tourist shows along with Tower Bridge and the Gherkin.
(3) Equally, the award made to Norman Foster's striking 30 St Mary Axe (aka the Gherkin) was at a time when there was great excitement about the latest development in new City skyscrapers, an excitement somewhat deflated now that City money appears to be as trustworthy as a Bob Maxwell pension scheme.
(4) Swiss Re spent about £238m building the Gherkin on the site at St Mary Axe of the Baltic Exchange shipping market, which was badly damaged by an IRA bomb attack in 1992.
(5) London Live has unveiled a series of five 25-second trails, which will be used as an intro to news coverage and shows on the channel, featuring locations including Boxpark in east London , Oxford Circus and the Gherkin building in the City.
(6) The Gherkin, voted London's favourite tower, has been put into receivership 10 years after its completion helped transform the capital's skyline.
(7) The inhibitor preparations inhibit phenylalanine ammonia-lyase isolated from a number of plant tissues and also cinnamic acid-4-hydroxylase (trans-cinnamate, NADPH:oxygen oxidoreductase (4-hydroxylating), EC 1.14.13.11) from gherkins and peas, but not a wide range of other enzymes.
(8) Cameron said: "We need thousands of offshore turbines in the next decade and beyond – each one as tall as the Gherkin [the Swiss Re skyscraper in London].
(9) The Gherkin office tower in the City was bought by Brazilian billionaire banker Joseph Safra for more than £700m last month, while the Qatari Investment Authority acquired HSBC tower in Canary Wharf for more than £1.1bn.
(10) Swiss Re spent about $400m (£238m) building the Gherkin on the site of the Baltic Exchange, which was badly damaged by an IRA bomb attack in 1992.
(11) The Gherkin, which has won multiple awards, has run into trouble at a time when dozens of new skyscrapers are planned.
(12) Picture the Cheesegrater strapped to the Walkie-Talkie , with most of the Gherkin thrown in, all bundled up in a great glass shroud.
(13) Today, London's skyline is dominated by such sights as the Cheese-grater in Leadenhall, the Walkie-talkie in Fenchurch Street, the Gherkin in Aldgate and the Razor at Elephant and Castle.
(14) Climb the steps and you are treated to a glorious panorama of the Shard, the Gherkin and Canary Wharf – a whole spread of city from Westminster to the Isle of Dogs and north to the humped ground of Highgate, shimmering in the smog like a mirage.
(15) Glyn Mummery, a partner at FRP Advisory, which helps with financial restructuring, said the multi-currency financial arrangements in place at the Gherkin were not uncommon in big London property deals and there could be further casualties.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy 1 The Gherkin One of London’s most recognisable silhouettes, the 180m Gherkin was last week bought by Brazilian banker Joseph Safra in a deal thought to be worth more than £700m.
(17) In December Guardian reporter Paul Lewis was stopped and searched while taking pictures of the Gherkin building in London and Grant Smith, an architecture photographer, was apprehended around the corner while photographing Sir Christopher Wren's Christ Church.
(18) We're high up in the Gherkin in the City of London and Garry Sidaway, director of security strategy at Integralis, a firm which advises government agencies, pharmaceutical and financial services multinationals, is giving my computer a security MOT.
(19) Close to, familiar and not-small objects, such as the Gherkin and HMS Belfast, look like large toys.
(20) I had some sympathy for the PC, who it turned out had been at the Gherkin by coincidence.