(v. t.) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the superfluous mordant.
(v. i.) To void excrement.
Example Sentences:
(1) A total of 202 cultures of yeasts were isolated and characterized from king crab and Dungeness crab meat.
(2) 15 species were found on dung pellets of wild living herbivorous mammals.
(3) dives females oviposited in a medium of rat dung and water.
(4) Dorian Lucas, a nuclear specialist at energy consultancy, Inenco, made his comments after it was revealed that power group, EDF, had won permission to change the rules for its Dungeness B station.
(5) The result of this investigation indicated that probably the majority of the indoor catches are due to the migration of outdoor-produced sandflies specially in close surroundings where dried cow dung droppings were left.
(6) It was in the US that things really kicked off, when Giuliani declared: “The idea of, in the name of art, having a city subsidise art, so-called works of art, in which people are throwing elephant dung at a picture of the Virgin Mary, is sick.” He threatened to remove funding from the Brooklyn Museum unless “the director comes to his senses”.
(7) The only site rejected in the draft document was Dungeness, chiefly because of its "unique ecosystem".
(8) The composition of the myxobacterial flora depends on ecological factors (kind of dung pellets, rock, bark and pH).
(9) A smaller group of 9 horses showed a subacute course while 22 horses had chronic enteritis with intermittent diarrhoea--often semisolid like cow's dung--increased peristalsis, weight loss and, in some cases, hypoproteinaemia with subcutaneous edema.
(10) The dung of both the white rhinoceros, Ceratotherium simum, and the black rhinoceros, Diceros bicornis, is considered to be a possible alternative site for the immatures of C. kanagai.
(11) Also featured are the puffer fish, dung beetle, veiled chameleon and moon jellyfish.
(12) Among dairy cows, wet cattle dung and all that, he was in a tie and jacket.
(13) Clifford Newbold, an architect who was involved in the design of Milbank Tower and Dungeness Lighthouse, had hoped to restore the palace to its Georgian splendour, but he died last year.
(14) The adults, puparium and 3rd instar larva of a dung-breeding fly, Musca nevilli sp.
(15) Predictions for this model are tested using all available data from the dung fly, Scatophaga stercoraria.
(16) The incidence of extensive damage to natural dung pats within five days of deposition, caused by biotic factors, another possible cause of D viviparus third stage larvae dispersal, varied from 0 to 92 per cent of the pats depending on their degree of dryness.
(17) Invasion by the recently defined dung beetle, Maladera matrida, is a new phenomenon which causes extreme distress, usually starting after invasion by the insect in the early morning hours.
(18) The quantitative and comparative analysis of the Purkinje cells indicates the higher mean linear density in the anterior lobe, with regard to posterior lobe, in the cerebellum of the dung cook, Gallus gallus.
(19) In 1999 Rudy Giuliani, the then mayor of New York City, tried to shut down Charles Saatchi's Sensation exhibition after taking offence at Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary, which featured a portrait of the Virgin Mary created partly from elephant dung.
(20) The transmission of Johne's disease was possibly promoted by furnishing the shelters with a scraper system to remove the dung, which system also reached the compartment housing young cattle.
Mung
Definition:
(n.) Green gram, a kind of pulse (Phaseolus Mungo), grown for food in British India.
Example Sentences:
(1) Studies with the mung bean enzyme revealed that the anti-alpha immunoreactive component was more sensitive to trypsinization than the anti-beta immunoreactive component of the Mr 60,000 protein band.
(2) A 73 kDa polypeptide cross-reacted with the antibody against inorganic pyrophosphatase of mung bean vacuoles.
(3) From Pakistan to Bangladesh, from Sri Lanka to the West Indies, red lentils, green lentils, split peas, mung beans, kidney beans, chick peas and others are being turned into dhals.
(4) In the present work, mung bean b-566 is shown to undergo an ATP-induced reduction similar to that observed for b-566 in animal mitochondria.
(5) Some physicochemical properties of the mitochondrial DNAs (mtDNA) from plants of flax, broad bean and mung bean, and from tissue culture cells of jimson weed, soybean, petunia and tobacco were determined.
(6) Feeding the high level of mung beans decreased (P less than .05) weight gain during gestation and reduced (P less than .05) weight loss during lactation compared with gilts fed the control diet or the moderate level of mung beans.
(7) A new p-coumaric acid (4-hydroxycinnamic acid) hydroxylase was detected in mung bean seedlings treated with tentoxin, a fungal toxin, in which polyphenol oxidase that hydroxylates a wide variety of monophenols in vitro was completely eliminated.
(8) Energy utilization was studied in human volunteers using different diets containing wheat flour supplemented by groundnut (Arachis hypogaea), "masur" (Lens culinaris), mung (Phaseolus aureus) and gram (Cicer arietinum) flour.
(9) The anti-cellulose synthase antibodies crossreact with a similar set of peptides derived from other cellulose-producing microorganisms and plants such as Agrobacterium tumefaciens, Rhizobium leguminosarum, mung bean, peas, barley, and cotton.
(10) In mung bean there were four unlinked genomic regions accounting for 49.7% of the variation for seed weight.
(11) Using pharmacological and chromatographic techniques, it was shown that acetylcholine was present in all organs of both light- and dark-grown mung bean seedings (Phaseolus aureus).
(12) Kinetic analysis revealed that (i) the activity of snake venom phosphodiesterase was unaffected by a dimer 5' to a phosphodiester linkage, (ii) the action of calf spleen phosphodiesterase was partially inhibited by a dimer 3' to a phosphodiester bond, and (iii) Escherichia coli phr B-encoded DNA photolyase reacted twice as fast with d-T less than p greater than TpT as with d-TpT less than p greater than T. Mung bean nuclease, nuclease S1, and nuclease P1 all cleaved the 5'-internucleotide linkage, but not the intradimer phosphodiester bond, in d-TpT less than p greater than T. Both phosphate groups in d-T less than p greater than TpT were refractory to mung bean nuclease or nuclease S1.
(13) Mung bean nuclease was used to probe for DNA unwinding in torsionally-stressed chimeric plasmids containing two micron plasmid sequences and the yeast LEU2 gene in a pBR322 vector.
(14) Thus, mung bean vacuolar H(+)-ATPase seems to consist of nine distinct subunits.
(15) A region of stably bent DNA was identified and shown not to be reactive in the mung bean nuclease unwinding assay at either acid or neutral pH.
(16) RNase A or T1 digestion eliminated anti-Z-RNA IgG binding to cytoplasmic determinants; however, DNase I or mung bean nuclease had no effect.
(17) At temperatures close to those of liquid helium, first derivative spectra corresponding to Center S-3 (gmax = 2.017) and a signal split around g = 2.00 (major features of peaks and troughs at g values of 2.045, 2.03, 1.985, 1.97 and 1.96) were observed in mung bean (Phaseolus aureus), Arum maculatum spadix, Sauromatum guttatum spadix and tulip bulb (Tulipa gesnerana) mitochondria.
(18) Both have an N-acetylated ;tail' of eight amino acids and two in-N-trimethyl-lysine residues, as also reported for wheat germ (Delange, Glazer & Smith, 1969) and mung-bean cytochrome c (Thompson, Laycock, Ramshaw & Boulter, 1970).
(19) There is a somewhat larger proportion of middle repetitive DNA in those inverted repeat duplexes which are resistant to digestion by Mung Bean Endonuclease I.
(20) The addition of 0.1-1.0 mM calcium to mung bean mitochondria supplemented with succinate gave no stimulation of state 4 respiration even in the presence of inorganic phosphate and the ionophoretic antibiotic A-23187.