(n.) In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.
(n.) That part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence including one or both of the sexual organs; an organ or combination of the organs of reproduction, whether inclosed by a circle of foliar parts or not. A complete flower consists of two essential parts, the stamens and the pistil, and two floral envelopes, the corolla and callyx. In mosses the flowers consist of a few special leaves surrounding or subtending organs called archegonia. See Blossom, and Corolla.
(n.) The fairest, freshest, and choicest part of anything; as, the flower of an army, or of a family; the state or time of freshness and bloom; as, the flower of life, that is, youth.
(n.) Grain pulverized; meal; flour.
(n.) A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation; as, the flowers of sulphur.
(n.) A figure of speech; an ornament of style.
(n.) Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.
(n.) Menstrual discharges.
(v. i.) To blossom; to bloom; to expand the petals, as a plant; to produce flowers; as, this plant flowers in June.
(v. i.) To come into the finest or fairest condition.
(v. i.) To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.
(v. i.) To come off as flowers by sublimation.
(v. t.) To embellish with flowers; to adorn with imitated flowers; as, flowered silk.
Example Sentences:
(1) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
(2) A case is presented of deliberate chewing of the flowers of henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) in the hope of producing euphoria, and an account is given of the poisoning so produced.
(3) Malvidin chloride (MC) a colouring agent from flowers of Malvaviscus conzattii Greenum was studied for male anti-fertility effects in adult langur monkeys (Presbytis entellus entellus Dufresne).
(4) At Wembley England fielded: Springett; Armfield, McNeil; Robson, Swan, Flowers; Douglas, Greaves, Smith, Haynes, Charlton.
(5) I believe Flower when he promises he would not repeat his mistake.
(6) In these tissues, the viral DNA replicated at the site of inoculation and was transported first to the roots, then to the shoot apex and to the neighboring leaves and the flowers.
(7) I salute you.” So clear-fall logging and burning of the tallest flowering forests on the planet, with provision for the dynamiting of trees over 80 metres tall, is an ultimate good in Abbott’s book of ecological wisdom.
(8) "They were the real flowers in the show - boys who I picked up in the park because they looked right."
(9) Parietaria judaica (Pellitory-of-the-Wall) is native to the U.K., flowering from June to September, but is not usually considered to be of any clinical importance by U.K. allergists.
(10) New management at Lifeline changed the expenses policy to make it legally compliant and asked Flowers to pay the money back.
(11) These are collected in her pollen baskets which she takes back to the nest to feed the young after fertilising the flowers.
(12) Angela Merkel , who turns 60 on Thursday, thanked a German reporter who sang the traditional birthday song at a news conference in Brussels, and revealed that other leaders had given her flowers.
(13) Frahm witnessed how every morning Weiwei puts a flower into the basket of a bicycle just outside his studio, which he will continue until he is free again to ride it out through the gates.
(14) It is that rare flower, a positive environmental story.
(15) Jane Baxter's stuffed courgette flowers Stuffed courgette flowers Photograph: Rob White You can't get much more summery than courgette flowers – Jane Baxter's take on these light crispy fried delights (use a vegetarian parmesan-style cheese ).
(16) This study documents a previously unrecognized potential source of occupational pesticide exposure and suggests that safety standards should be set for residue levels on cut flowers.
(17) We suggest that both vertical transmission of Ty1-copia group retrotransposons within plant lineages and horizontal transmission between different species have played roles in the evolution of Ty1-copia group retrotransposons in flowering plants.
(18) I cracked a few jokes because I thought we had been through such a terrible event we need to laugh.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A man lays flowers outside the synagogue in Copenhagen after two deadly shootings.
(19) The carcinogenic activity of petasitenine, a new pyrrolizidine alkaloid isolated from young flower stalk of Petasites japonicus, was studied in ACI rats.
(20) In both experiments, videotapes of model monkeys behaving fearfully were spliced so that it appeared that the models were reacting fearfully either to fear-relevant stimuli (toy snakes or a toy crocodile), or to fear-irrelevant stimuli (flowers or a toy rabbit).
Nasturtium
Definition:
(n.) A genus of cruciferous plants, having white or yellowish flowers, including several species of cress. They are found chiefly in wet or damp grounds, and have a pungent biting taste.
(n.) Any plant of the genus Tropaeolum, geraniaceous herbs, having mostly climbing stems, peltate leaves, and spurred flowers, and including the common Indian cress (Tropaeolum majus), the canary-bird flower (T. peregrinum), and about thirty more species, all natives of South America. The whole plant has a warm pungent flavor, and the fleshy fruits are used as a substitute for capers, while the leaves and flowers are sometimes used in salads.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the basis of the ability of the enzyme to hydrolyze xyloglucans, the kinetics of xyloglucan hydrolysis, and an experimental demonstration of a clear correlation between xyloglucan depletion and the activity in vitro of this enzyme, it is argued that the cell-wall storage xyloglucan of the nasturtium seed is its natural substrate.
(2) Nasturtium, which contains mustard oil, should be added to the list of plants capable of causing this dermatitis and must be suspected in any patient who handles plants and presents with hand dermatitis.
(3) Endo-(1----4)-beta-D-glucanase activity has previously been detected in the cotyledons of germinated nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus L.) seeds, and has been linked to the hydrolysis in vivo of storage xyloglucan (amyloid) (Edwards, M., Dea, I. C. M., Bulpin, P. V., and Reid, J. S. G. (1985) Planta (Berl.)
(4) Oils containing high levels of erucic acid (26-30%) induced the most severe cardiac necrosis, irrespective of the source of erucic acid (rapeseed oil or nasturtium oil).
(5) For comparative purposes, aspects of the structures of xyloglucans from nasturtium seeds and suspension-cultured sycamore cells have been re-examined.
(6) Since this is the only XG-cleaving enzyme that develops in nasturtium seeds during germination, it may be that its transglycosylase and hydrolase capacities are both necessary to account for the rapid and complete depolymerization of XG that takes place.
(7) Nasturtium butter Substitute 3 tablespoons of chopped nasturtium flowers (red, yellow and orange) for the parsley.
(8) The conversion of L-phenylalanine into benzoic acid and other aromatic carboxylic acids was investigated in Nasturtium officinale (watercress), Astilbe chinensis, and Hydrangea macrophylla in vivo and in vitro.
(9) Calcium absorption was measured in ten male volunteers from skimmed milk, Ca-enriched skimmed milk or watercress (Nasturtium officinale) soup.
(10) The vegetables under study consisted of 50 samples of each variety listed below: lettuce (Lactuca sativa)-oily leaves and crisphead varieties, endive (Chicorium sp) and water-cress (Nasturtium Officinale).
(11) Oligosaccharide subunits were prepared from xyloglucan (XG) by partial hydrolysis with cellulase and added back at micro- to millimolar concentrations to XG in the presence of nasturtium seed xyloglucanase (XG-ase).
(12) Proposed amino acid sequences of cytochrome c from nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus L.), box-elder (Acer negundo L.), elder (Sambucus nigra L.) and parsnip (Pastinaca sativa L.) are presented.
(13) The complexes were applied to ultrathin sections of nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus L) and tamarind (Tamarindus indica L) seeds.
(14) Only the nasturtium sequence relies on considerations of homology for a complete ordering of the peptides.
(15) However, germination of nasturtium seed, which resulted in a large increase in endo-1,4-beta-glucanase (XG-ase) activity in the cotyledons, was accompanied by comparable increases in XG-alpha-fucosidase activity.
(16) Two pure, homogeneous xyloglucan-hydrolyzing enzymes from germinated nasturtium seeds have been used to localize xyloglucans specifically in seed cell walls.
(18) beta-D-Galactosidase activity has been detected previously in the cotyledons of germinated nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus L.) seeds and has been linked to the hydrolysis in vivo of storage xyloglucan (amyloid) (Edwards, M., Dea, I. C. M., Bulpin, P. V., and Reid, J. S. G. (1985) Planta (Berl.)
(19) The vegetables under study consisted of 50 samples of each of the varieties listed below: lettuce (Lactuca sativa)-oily leaves and crisp-head varieties, endive (Chicorium sp) and watercress (Nasturtium officinale).
(20) alpha-L-Fucosidase activity was readily detected in crude enzyme extracts of growing regions of etiolated pea stems (Pisum sativum) and in cotyledons of germinating nasturtium seedlings (Tropaeolum majus) using the fucosylated XG-nonasaccharide as substrate.