What's the difference between cupreous and russet?
Cupreous
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of copper or resembling copper; coppery.
Example Sentences:
(1) The enzyme activation by cupreous ions is countered by the enzyme inhibition by cupric ions, the rate of inhibition being determined by the level of cupric ions.
Russet
Definition:
(a.) Of a reddish brown color, or (by some called) a red gray; of the color composed of blue, red, and yellow in equal strength, but unequal proportions, namely, two parts of red to one each of blue and yellow; also, of a yellowish brown color.
(a.) Coarse; homespun; rustic.
(n.) A russet color; a pigment of a russet color.
(n.) Cloth or clothing of a russet color.
(n.) A country dress; -- so called because often of a russet color.
(n.) An apple, or a pear, of a russet color; as, the English russet, and the Roxbury russet.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the setting was spectacular : the Disney domes of St Basil’s Cathedral loomed over Nemtsov’s left shoulder, the Kremlin’s russet battlements over his right.
(2) The carboxypeptidase inhibitor from Russet Burbank potatoes (C. A. Ryan et al.
(3) A temporary exhibition opens this week in the Guildhall, near the site, and next year a permanent new visitor centre will open, possibly on the same day that the russet bones are re-interred in a newly designed tomb in the cathedral.
(4) Despite Australians’ sentimental and cultural attachment to those vast expanses of uninhabited outback, stock runs, russet fields and verdant crop lines that we romantically generalise as “the bush”, Australians have always predominantly been most comfortable dwelling and working on the coastal, urban plains where most big cities and centres are.
(5) Serves 2-4 For the filling 1 medium russet potato 50g cheddar, grated 50g cottage cheese 1 onion, sliced then caramelised in 2 tbsp butter Salt and black pepper 4 tbsp butter, for frying For the dough 260g flour ½ tsp salt 2 eggs 1 tbsp vegetable oil 4-5 tbsp water, or as needed to bring the dough together 1 Peel, then boil, the potato until tender, then mash with the cheese, onion, salt and pepper.
(6) The Egremont russet [with its characteristic matt brown skin] has a quirky nutty flavour and is great with cheese, but young consumers wouldn’t pick them up.
(7) With a sleek ebony bob, russet red lipstick and mildly unconventional outfits, Eve Ensler looks like a hippy Anna Wintour.
(8) But he confounds expectation and theatrically blows it out, at which we cut to the desert, a russet band of sand and an orange band of sky, between which the sun begins to appear.
(9) We transformed a major commercial cultivar of potato, Russet Burbank, with the coat protein genes of PVX and PVY.
(10) A low molecular weight protein inhibitor of serine proteinases from Russet Burbank potato tubers, polypeptide chymotrypsin inhibitor-1 (PCI-1), has been crystallized in complex with Streptomyces griseus proteinase B (SGPB).
(11) Gaskill would later reunite with Allio, designing in russet and ochre, and Smith, as a disgruntled, tremulous Mrs Sullen, in 1970 for a production of Farquhar’s The Beaux’ Stratagem.
(12) Proteinase inhibitor II, an inhibitor of chymotrypsin and trypsin, is a heat-stable protein with a dimeric molecular weight of 21 000 that is a component of Russet Burbank potato tubers.