(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).
Uniaxial
Definition:
(a.) Having but one optic axis, or line of no double refraction.
(a.) Having only one axis; developing along a single line or plane; -- opposed to multiaxial.
Example Sentences:
(1) A new triaxial constitutive relation for the myocardium is presented which exhibits the observed exponential length-passive tension behavior of left ventricular papillary muscle in the limit of uniaxial tension.
(2) Thus from just beyond the chiasma the fibres had already achieved the major uniaxial rearrangement necessary to establish a normal tract distribution despite the eye translocation.
(3) Whole-tissue stress-strain behavior under uniaxial loading is predicted from an analysis of the compression of a conglomerate of cells in a simple arrangement.
(4) The normalized residual anisotropy (A infinity) is insensitive to viscosity and temperature changes, supporting the model of uniaxial rotation of the protein about the membrane normal.
(5) For larger deformation, the results were quantified using a nonlinear analysis of viscoelastic response of the spinal cord under the uniaxial experiment.
(6) A model is proposed for two conical bodies swimming in a uniaxial membrane which interact with each other through elastic coupling.
(7) Biaxial and uniaxial stress-strain curves from the literature are used to evaluate the parameters of the model.
(8) The stress and strain modes are illustrated using the representation of the stress and strain fields around a circular hole in a flat plate of cortical bone subjected to a uniaxial field of tension as the example.
(9) Natural and glutaraldehyde fixed bovine pericardium samples were mechanically conditioned by a cyclic uniaxial load procedure.
(10) We also conducted uniaxial compression tests to failure of the vertebral bodies after removal of the posterior elements, and found that vertebral compressive strength was also correlated at a high level of significance (R2 = 0.82, p less than 0.0001) with direct measurement of the trabecular apparent density.
(11) The uniaxial compression modulus for the growing direction was appreciably larger than those for the other two directions, while the anisotropy of the modulus was absent for a decalcified ligament.
(12) Uniaxial loading of human lens, zonules, ciliary muscle, and choroid shows a nonlinear relationship between stress and deformation of the specimen, and hysteresis on unloading.
(13) Anacystis nidulans cyanobacteria and their fragments embedded in unstretched, uniaxial and skew (two axes of stretching forming an angle of 40 degrees) stretched poly(vinyl alcohol) films have been investigated.
(14) Formulas were derived on the assumption that the optical properties of the axon could be represented by a model of a uniaxial crystal that was not only birefringent but also dichroic, its extinction coefficients and the angle of retardation being changed independently on excitation.
(15) The mechanical properties of human skin in vivo are studied by means of uniaxial strain measurements.
(16) The effect of increased and decreased uniaxial tissue tension on capillary blood flow, plasma volume, edema formation, and vascular permeability in myocutaneous flaps was studied.
(17) Data obtained from canine femur-medial collateral ligament-tibia complexes (FMT) and isolated chicken flexor tendons revealed that the strains on opposite surfaces of these parallel fiber soft connective tissues were similar during a uniaxial tensile test.
(18) Glutaraldehyde-fixed bovine pericardium demonstrates both relaxation of stress and hysteresis during uniaxial loading and unloading.
(19) Uniaxial load-deformation measurements were carried out with a non-invasive extensometer and utilized in formulating the model.
(20) Both Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio varied with uniaxial loading in pericardium, chemically modified free of tension.