(n.) A genus of liliaceous plants with woody stems and funnel-shaped flowers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Examination of Dracaena loureiri, a Thai medicinal plant possessing anti-bacterial activity, has led to the isolation of two new representatives, 1 and 2, of a rare skeleton of homoisoflavans.
(2) Shoot tips of actively growing terminals were selected as explants for Cordyline and Dracaena, and lateral buds were employed for Scindapsus and Syngonium.
(3) The first four members of a new class of natural products, the retrodihydrochalcones, have been isolated from the leaves of Dracaena loureiri.
(4) Procedures were established for clonal multiplication in vitro of Cordyline terminalis Kunth, Dracaena godseffiana Hort., Scindapsus aureus Engler, and Syngonium podophyllum Schott.
Funnel
Definition:
(v. t.) A vessel of the shape of an inverted hollow cone, terminating below in a pipe, and used for conveying liquids into a close vessel; a tunnel.
(v. t.) A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the iron chimney of a steamship or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yards away from a genuine station, he used a huge funnel to fill up a car sagging under the weight of its occupants and market produce.
(2) The ear canal molds were analyzed in terms of tortuosity, caliber, and degree of funneling.
(3) The sliding splint-staples, generally two, are placed in staggered positions behind the sternum (11 cases--funnel chest) or in front of the sternum (2 cases--pigeon chest).
(4) The completness of the lipids removal from the fish muscles and fish products was investigated by making extraction in a filtering separating funnel (FSF) formerly proposed for determining lipids in oil-bearing seeds and cereals.
(5) The availability of selective drugs (such as dihydropyridines) and natural toxins (such as omega-Conotoxin, omega-agatoxin, and funnel-web spider toxins), which bind to specific channel subtypes, has greatly helped in channel classification.
(6) The substrate binding pocket is a large funnel-shaped cleft extending some 25A into the interior of each subunit and surrounded by 28 amino acids, 26 from one subunit and 2 from the other.
(7) The inquiry has heard that NSW Liberal figures used Eightbyfive to secretly funnel more than $400,000 in donations to prospective MPs and associates in exchange for favours.
(8) It said the policy was rooted in a 1994 Clinton-era Border Patrol strategy called “Prevention Through Deterrence” which sealed off urban entry points and funneled people to wilderness routes risking injury, dehydration, heat stroke, exhaustion and hypothermia .
(9) The incidence of funnel chest is about 0.05% of the population, with the emphasis on boys.
(10) Officials say Mistral may never have existed in the first place — one of 100-120 phantom firms organised to funnel money from legitimate businesses to corrupt officials.
(11) Extensive stricture formation requires reconstruction to create a functional funnel system that empties below the cricoid.
(12) This paper demonstrates the presence of areas where endocardial cells are aligned with the blood flow in three distinct regions of the embryonic chick heart: on the inferior border of the growing septum primum, on the upper wall of the primitive ventricle above the developing interventricular septum, and on the part of the atrial floor that funnels into the atrioventricular canal.
(13) A new transtympanic aerator for medium duration of use and made of flexible silicone is presented, its funnel shape preventing stagnation of plugs or allowing their simple removal.
(14) Since previous studies have demonstrated that various expressions of dopaminergic CN activity are funnelled through the deeper layers of the superior colliculus (dl-SC), it was hypothesized that switching induced by CN application of apomorphine may also be channelled through the dl-SC.
(15) Funnel chest symptoms are the expression of anxiety in a majority of cases.
(16) The surplus heat produced by electricity generating stations, factories, server farms and public transport networks is funnelled into the network, eliminating waste, lowering carbon emissions, lowering fuel consumption and saving everybody money.
(17) Huge numbers have funnelled through Libya, where the state has all but collapsed and people traffickers operate with relative impunity.
(18) A questionnaire survey of 66 patients with funnel chest who underwent corrective surgical procedures by the sternal elevation method, with or without the application of metal strut, demonstrated that the operative result was good in 60.6% and fair in 39.4%.
(19) The ideal shape of the access cavity should be a funnel with the larger diameter towards the occlusal surface.
(20) It sends "excess" military equipment to local police departments, and combined with the Homeland Security operation that provides grants to purchase such equipment, we've got a veritable firearms sale funnelling from Washington on down to the local station house.