(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).
Powder
Definition:
(n.) The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust.
(n.) An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder. See Gunpowder.
(v. t.) To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder; to comminute; to pulverize; to triturate.
(v. t.) To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder; to be sprinkle; as, to powder the hair.
(v. t.) To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat.
(v. i.) To be reduced to powder; to become like powder; as, some salts powder easily.
(v. i.) To use powder on the hair or skin; as, she paints and powders.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sift the cocoa powder over the top and lightly but thoroughly fold it in with the metal spoon.
(2) Thus, enhancers are required to obtain significant nasal absorption of glucagon and calcitonin and powders and spray solutions did not differ in terms of systemic availability.
(3) On the other hand, immunofluorescence in anterior pituitary cells was faint and detected in only 2 of 28 patients with Graves' disease (7.1%) after absorption of their sera with rat liver aceton powder.
(4) High intensity ultrasound also enhances the heterogeneous catalysis of alkene hydrogenation by Ni powders.
(5) Rat heart acid acetone powder was subjected to ion exchange chromatography on CM-cellulose.
(6) The conformational similarity between tubules, sheets, and the dry powder is corroborated by calorimetry, which reveals a cooling exotherm at the same temperature where tubules form upon cooling hydrated sheets.
(7) Eight patients were seen within 15 minutes of intranasal self-administration of large amounts of pure D-lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) tartrate powder.
(8) As soon as the component with the lower mechanical stability is percolating the powder system, tablet hardness is controlled entirely by this component.
(9) During powder compaction on a Manesty Betapress, peak pressures, Pmax, are reached before the punches are vertically aligned with the centres of the upper and lower compression roll support pins.
(10) Plasma cholesterol concentrations in F1b-generation rats were elevated, but cocoa powder did not affect this parameter consistently across multiple generations.
(11) In a trial with rams, application of polyethylene powder (PE) as a marker for determination of feed passage rate through the digestive tract and three methods of its determination in feed and feces were tested.
(12) Physical and technological parameters of carfecillin powder and carfecillin with auxiliary substances in the form of the powder mixture and granulate were studied comparatively.
(13) Treatment animals had the anastomoses and graft sealed with a suspension of N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate and 1.2 g tobramycin powder (antibiotic glue, ANGL) after contamination.
(14) A suspension of 0.6 mg polyvinyl alcohol foam powder per milliliter of normal saline was found to be optimum.
(15) The allogenic implantation of demineralized bone powder induces the formation of new bone tissue or osteoneogenesis.
(16) The ICSAs were significantly absorbed with mouse islet cells but hardly absorbed with spleen cells or liver powder.
(17) Thus, with elution by either ATP or pyrophosphate, actin has been purified in one step from extracts of acetone-dried muscle powder.
(18) An analysis of variance of saliva levels and urinary excretion as well as an analysis of variance of peak concentration and the area under the curve from 0 to 24 hr for the saliva levels showed no significant difference between the powder and products, but a significant difference between subjects.
(19) In contact toxicity tests with water dispersible powder deposits on plywood, propoxur was highly active initially but lost its effectiveness after only a few weeks, whereas tetrachlorvinphos was less active initially but more persistent.
(20) Completely demineralized root powder was subjected to solutions of varying pH and ionic strength: (a) 0.1 M acetic acid, pH 4.0, (b) 0.1 M acetic acid + 0.15 M KCl, pH 4.0, (c) 0.1 M Hepes, pH 7.0 or to (d) 0.1 M Hepes + 0.15 M KCl, pH 7.0 at 37 degrees C. The surfaces of intact root specimens were exposed to 0.1 M acetic acid, pH 4.0 (which resulted in erosive lesions) or to 0.1 M lactic acid, 0.2 mM methane hydroxy diphosphonate, pH 5.0 (which produced subsurface lesions) at 37 degrees C. After incubation, the extracts were analysed for soluble collagen and the insoluble matrices were treated with trypsin at 15 degrees C to determine the denatured collagen.