(n.) A genus of small European and American trees; the spindle tree. The bark is used as a cathartic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Treatment of Euonymus japonica leaves with the n-butyl ester of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid causes premature senescence and leaf fall and stimulates ethylene production by the blade 5-to 25-fold.
(2) Also, an increase in the galactose content (74%) as compared with control cells (34%) is in agreement with the peanut agglutinin and Euonymus europaeus lectins agglutination results.
(3) These data were confirmed in ELISA and Western Blot assays carried out with peroxidase-labelled EE and Con A. Euonymus europaeus recognized several glycoproteins in all trypanosomatids that we tested.
(4) It was shown that precipitates formed by lectins from Ricinus communis (RCA1), Canavalia ensiformis (Con A), Euonymus europaeus (Eel) in the presence of appropriate carbohydrate-containing molecules disappeared after cysteine addition, like after addition of specific carbohydrate precipitation inhibitors.
(5) We observed a wide distribution of the carbohydrate epitopes galactosyl alpha(1-3)galactose (gal alpha1-3 gal), alpha-glucoside and alpha-mannoside in mono- and heteroxenic trypanosomatids by using fluorescein-labelled lectins of Euonymus europaeus (EE) and Concanavalin A (Con A) as well as sera from acute chagasic patients who have very high levels of anti-gal alpha(1-3)gal antibodies.
(6) The Euonymus europaeus agglutinin (EEA) is an endothelial marker in mammalia.
(7) Retinal vascular endothelial cells consistently bound ABA, ECA, PHA-E and RCA-I, but they could also bind BPA, HPA, Bandeiraea simplicifolia (BSA-I), Dolichos biflorus (DBA) and Euonymus europaeus (EEA) agglutinins in unpretreated sections, as well as MPA, PNA, soybean (SBA) and Sophora japonica (SJA) agglutinins subsequent to predigestion with neuraminidase.
(8) Using Wagner parsimony analysis, one most parsimonious tree resulted that shows the Santalales to be a holophyletic taxon most closely related to Euonymus (Celastraceae).
(9) Five of the lectins that bind to oligosaccharides containing either N-acetylglucosamine (phytohaemagglutinin, Euonymus europaeus lectin, pokeweed mitogen, and wheat germ agglutinin) or N-acetylneuraminic acid (Mycoplasma gallisepticum lectin) all had a specific effect on microvilli.
(10) Five days old promastigote culture forms of two stocks of Leishmania enriettii pathogenic and non-infective for Cavia procellus, were tested with the lectins of Canavalia ensiformis, Ricinus communis-120, Soja hispida (Glycine maxima), Arachis hypogaea, Ulex europaeus, Ulex europaeus I, Ulex europaeus II, Laburnum alpinum, Lotus tetragonolobus, Euonymus europaeus and with a monoclonal antibody against blood group H. The pathogenic stock reacted with the anti-H lectin of Lotus tetragonolobus and the monoclonal anti-H and the monoclonal anti-H but not with anti-H of U. europaeus I and E. europaeus.
(11) Macro-and microscopic characters were observed on the more popular ethnic substitutes of dutzhong derived from 21 species of Euonymus (Celastraceae).
(12) The binding of K88 fimbriae to mucus proteins was blocked using a lectin of Euonymus europeaus which specifically recognizes the Gal alpha(1-3)Gal sequence, indicating that this disaccharide forms a significant part of the receptor structure.
(13) regelii Makino and Euonymus sieboldianus Blume, using their possible inhibitory effects on the Epstein-Barr virus early antigen (EBV-EA) activation which is induced by 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) in Raji cells.
(14) A 44-year-old goldsmith suffered from rhinitis and conjunctivitis after having worked with wood dust from Euonymus europaeus (E.e.)
(15) The Spatholobus suberectus (SS) of hexue type, the Euonymus alatus (EA) of huoxue type and the Eupolyphaga sinensis (ES) of poxue type were selected and their influence on plasma lipid in the experimental hyperlipidemia quails was observed.
(16) Furthermore, the lectins Euonymus europaeus (EE) specific for the carbohydrates gal alpha 1-3 gal present a similar lytic activity against T. cruzi at the same concentrations of purified anti-gal antibodies.
(17) Euonymus Sieboldiana seeds possess a lectin for human erythrocytes with anti-B specificity.
Vine
Definition:
(n.) Any woody climbing plant which bears grapes.
(n.) Hence, a climbing or trailing plant; the long, slender stem of any plant that trails on the ground, or climbs by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing anything with its tendrils, or claspers; a creeper; as, the hop vine; the bean vine; the vines of melons, squashes, pumpkins, and other cucurbitaceous plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) The education secretary's wife, Sarah Vine, a columnist, said her son William, nine, and daughter Beatrice, 11, now realise how much their father is hated for his position in government because other children tell them in the playground.
(2) It is Vine who initiated this latest assault on Ed’s character.
(3) Vine's short-notice inspection report on border security checks at Heathrow's terminals 3 and 4, published on Thursday ,says that many of those who are being drafted in are ex-UK Border Agency employees who are being rehired, or staff who have been working elsewhere in the Home Office but have only been given basic training to work on the airport passport desks.
(4) I consider that lengthy delays in publishing reports risk reducing the effectiveness of independent inspection, which depends to a large extent on timely publication of findings, and it is contributing to a sense that the independence of my role is being compromised.” Vine disclosed in his letter that he was so perturbed by the proposals that he sought a legal opinion.
(5) John Vine, the chief inspector of immigration, who is conducting the official inquiry into who, including ministers, knew what when in a row which has put the home secretary's political reputation on the line, is to publish an interim report as early as next week.
(6) These may involve either nutrition, as in calcium deficiency in some lettuce varieties, tomato, and bell peppers, or direct toxicity (chloride or sodium toxicity, or both) in tree and vine crops.
(7) Vine also criticises the searching priorities of the Border Force and HM Revenues and Customs by highlighting that 68% of freight consignments targeted for checks at the border are actually undergoing a physical examination while 43,000 low-risk cargoes were being checked.
(8) Sources said that some of Vine’s previous reports had been delayed for months by May and then released en masse.
(9) Photograph: Rex Feeding into this narrative, an email from Sarah Vine, Gove’s wife, was accidentally sent to a member of the public, leaking details of her reservations about Johnson’s popularity with members and media bosses.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Vine about the Scottish independence referendum.
(11) Mr Vine said: "Some time ago I decided I would have to leave Newsnight if I went to Radio 2 and that's a wrench, but no journalist could turn down such a magnificent offer from what is the UK's most successful radio station.
(12) I first had stuffed vine leaves at my grandad's guesthouse in Southend, and deeply regret not pilfering his recipe before he passed away.
(13) You're like Tarzan, swinging from vine to vine" – Pete Campbell Sterling Cutler Cooper Gleason Draper Holloway Chaough Campbell.
(14) Vine says the files in these "complex" cases, which go back to 2003, were discovered in boxes that had been transferred last March from a UKBA unit in Croydon to their offices in Sheffield where they had not been dealt with at the time of the inspection.
(15) • He listed journalists who were close friends , including the Times's Daniel Finkelstein and Sarah Vine, the wife of education secretary and former Times journalist Michael Gove.
(16) House Democrats’ Vine British politics has been much slower to get involved.
(17) It has been a principle of successive governments that under-subscribed state schools should wither on the vine, so why not apply the same principles to the private sector?
(18) Add your own advisory lines from Shakespeare on the comment thread below – or share them on Instagram, Vine or Twitter with the #gdnbard hashtag.
(19) ― A Fatal Inversion, as Barbara Vine (1987) Our children, when young, are part of ourselves.
(20) I’ve got vines of them going all up my other arm and round my shoulder,” he says proudly.