(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.
Melon
Definition:
(n.) The juicy fruit of certain cucurbitaceous plants, as the muskmelon, watermelon, and citron melon; also, the plant that produces the fruit.
(n.) A large, ornamental, marine, univalve shell of the genus Melo.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gastric antral vascular ectasia ('water melon stomach') is a poorly documented cause of occult upper gastrointestinal blood loss.
(2) Female undergraduates (N = 50 and N = 46 in the two studies) were given cards containing the names of randomly-selected generic foods (e.g., cakes, melons) and were asked to "group the foods according to how you think about them when it comes to eating them".
(3) It is called falling off the swing,” said Soames, when he tried to explain all this to me, “and getting hit on the back of the head by the roundabout.” There are times, when considering Serco, that it begins to resemble Milo Minderbinder’s syndicate, M&M Enterprises, in the novel Catch-22, which starts out trading melons and sardines between opposing armies in the second world war, and ends up conducting bombing raids for commercial reasons.
(4) The staples of the poor consisted of one or two bulky carbohydrate meals (derivatives of different species of cocoyam, cassava, yam and maize) eaten with vegetable soup in palm oil, melon seeds, snail, occasional meat and fish.
(5) Under scanning electron microscopy, O. viverrini eggs looked like musk-melon skin; they had prominent shoulders and long knobs.
(6) The distinctive medium chain neutral lipids in the jaw and melon fats of this whale may be related to the postulated acoustical role of these tissues in echolocation.
(7) Alternatively, the Rudd government's radical, sudden, forced resettlement of vulnerable people has made me so angry I shall additionally preference the Australian Magical Moonbeam party, The Coalition for People Who Look Like Cats or the Australians For Putting Melons in Their Pants party – if their refugee policies are at all critical of Labor's own.
(8) While the chicken is roasting, halve the charentais melon and discard the seeds, then remove the flesh from the skin with a sharp knife and slice into thick, juicy pieces, putting them and any juice into a large mixing bowl.
(9) The heterologous in vivo translation system of Xenopus laevis oocytes was used to translate messenger RNA isolated from water-melon cotyledons.
(10) Two levels (50 and 200 kcal) of three preloads (tomato soup, melon, cheese on crackers) were given just before two different second courses (macaroni and beef casserole, grilled cheese sandwiches), allowing us to examine the effects of caloric level, energy density, and sensory-specific satiety on food intake in normal weight, non-dieting males.
(11) The fermented product (ogiri) was prepared with Aspergillus flavus-contaminated melon seeds.
(12) When the Guardian visited the melon fields, she waited elsewhere in case she was seen by company guards.
(13) Warm roast chicken salad with melon Warm roast chicken salad with melon.
(14) A proteinase from the sarcocarp of melon (Cucumis Melo L. var.
(15) Under Pinter's direction, Bates brilliantly brought out Butley's blend of rancorous wit and emotional immaturity; and it was to be the start of a long and fruitful assocation with Gray that included the lead roles in Otherwise Engaged (1975), for which Bates won an Evening Standard Best Actor award, Stage Struck (1979) and Melon (1987).
(16) In every grocery store, Kumamon smiles from every punnet of strawberries and honeydew melon wrapper.
(17) The fruit and seeds of the bitter melon (Momordica charantia) have been reported to have anti-leukemic and antiviral activities.
(18) "Royal Gala remains our most popular variety, and that's a very sweet one, but there are lots of new varieties that are becoming more and more popular: Jazz, which has a peardroppy flavour, and Rubens which has tones of melon, and Zari, which is a sweet, juicy apple."
(19) Melon condiment was the least preferred among the four products.
(20) Concentration of melon volatiles by steam distillation yielded a product identical to that obtained by hydrolysis of profenofos, identified as 4-bromo-2-chlorophenol.