(a.) Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume.
Example Sentences:
(1) The booming Bollywood music beckoned a stream of families, wearing ornate saris and sharp kurtas, fragrant plates of samosa chaat in hand, toward the stage, replete with an extravagant display of lights and visuals.
(2) Recipe supplied by Patrick Hanna, L'Entrepot, lentrepot.co.uk Clams with leek, fennel and parsley Though you could add a twirl of al dente spaghetti or linguine to this dish, it is the fragrant, briny broth that delights – better with a crusty loaf and a spoon.
(3) I like the challenges that come with those that thrive in such adverse conditions, and there are plenty: woodland species that make the most of what little sunlight hits the leaf litter; ferns that like dripping cave mouths and cliff faces cast in gloom; and small shrubs that eke out a living under bigger things, such as butcher’s broom ( Ruscus aculeatus ) and fragrant sweet box ( sarcoccoca ).
(4) Photograph: Pasona Group At the Tokyo headquarters of the Pasona Group , a staffing company, tomatoes dangle from the ceiling, herbs grow fragrantly in meeting rooms and a rice paddy is the lobby centerpiece.
(5) He appeared to be saying that everyone who worked for HBOS was decent, honest and fragrant.
(6) The ASP drink is not only effective but also fragrant, tasty, refreshing and thirst quenching, and it appears to have no side effects.
(7) Intranasal injections of a fragrant solution of 2-methyl-2-thiazoline elicited significant heart rate decelerations in late pregnancy fetal sheep, while the injection of a control fluid (isotonic saline) had no effect.
(8) "So you are the fragrant Mrs Copperfield's incumbrance," he said to me.
(9) Toast the coriander, cumin and fennel seeds in a dry frying pan until fragrant.
(10) The broth is glorious: fragrant but subtle, rich but not oily, and the perfect balance between spicy, sour and sweet.
(11) Satire can provide a fragrant drop of vanilla essence to the custard pie of protest.
(12) After that, let’s start to seriously clean up periods, and I don’t mean fragrantly.
(13) Add the chilli bean paste and stir-fry for a minute or so until the oil is red and fragrant.
(14) Serves 4 1 tbsp vegetable oil 1 tsp crushed garlic 4 tomatoes, quartered 1 tsp gia vi (or a mix of 2 parts sugar, 1 part black pepper, 1 part salt and 1 part garlic powder) 1.5 litres water 3 rhubarb stalks, cut into 3cm chunks 2 tbsp fish sauce 50g okra, halved, deseeded and cut into 1cm rounds ½ pineapple, cut into 2cm chunks 1 tsp sugar 1 spring onion, chopped 1 tbsp chopped coriander 1 In a saucepan, heat the oil and stir in the garlic, cooking until fragrant.
(15) Surrounded by sea and hills, rowan trees, hawthorn and holly, it had a fragrant compost loo-with-a-view.
(16) 3.20am BST Heat 85-87 Spurs, 6:43 remaining in the 4th quarter Parker crumples to the floor on what's a clear flagrant foul on Mario Chalmers, a deliberate dirty elbowing, upheld as fragrant 1 by Danny Crawford, but the Spurs might be out their best player here.
(17) 2 Add the ginger, onion and green chillies, and fry until fragrant.
(18) There are my roast tomatoes with crumbs and thyme, Russell Norman's broad bean, mint and ricotta bruschette, Fuchsia Dunlop's fragrant sea bream, and a beet bourguignon from The Green Kitchen.
(19) The Clonakilty black pudding – relatively dry, crumbly, full of oatmeal, fragrantly spiced – is very tasty.
(20) With a toddler in tow, après ski for me meant a quick beer then a swim at our hotel – the Lechtaler Hof, smallest and sweetest of Warth’s handful of family-owned hotels – followed by fantastic five-course dinners that might include fragrant dumpling-and-wild-chive soup, roast lamb and divine fruit tarts.
Groundnut
Definition:
(n.) The fruit of the Arachis hypogaea (native country uncertain); the peanut; the earthnut.
(n.) A leguminous, twining plant (Apios tuberosa), producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste.
(n.) The dwarf ginseng (Aralia trifolia).
(n.) A European plant of the genus Bunium (B. flexuosum), having an edible root of a globular shape and sweet, aromatic taste; -- called also earthnut, earth chestnut, hawknut, and pignut.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the first two trials, groundnut meal was used, with and without supplementary methionine and lysine.
(2) An improved energy digestibility was observed when wheat flour was supplemented with groundnut flour, and groundnut flour plus gram flour, i.e.
(3) The efficacy of detoxication by ammoniation of aflatoxin-contaminated groundnut oil cakes was determined in long-term (18 months) feeding experiments with rats.
(4) 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.
(5) The technique of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was used for serological identification of peanut Rhizobium strains both in cell suspension of pure culture and in single root nodules of groundnut (Arachis hypogaea) plants.
(6) Nutritionally adequate diets containing 20% groundnut (GNO), coconut (CO), safflower (SO), or mustard oil (MO) were fed to weanling CFY rats for 4 months.
(7) A gene from groundnut (Arachis hypogaea) coding for stilbene synthase was transferred together with a chimaeric kanamycin resistance gene.
(8) Samples of home-grown maize and groundnuts from the endemic area of Mseleni joint disease (MJD) during four seasons (1980-1983) were examined mycologically.
(9) Four groups of male weanling Charles Foster Young rats were fed diets containing 20% of groundnut, coconut, safflower or mustard oil for 16 weeks.
(10) It is concluded that in the developing groundnut seed, sn-glycerol 3-phosphate is synthesized essentially by the pathway dihydroxyacetone phosphate----glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate Pi----glyceraldehyde NADPH----glycerol ATP----glycerol 3-phosphate.
(11) A probe that represented a portion of the particle protein gene also detected beet western yellows luteovirus (BWYV), with which it has 69% nucleotide sequence homology, and an English strain of the RPV form of barley yellow dwarf luteovirus, and reacted weakly with extracts from plants infected with groundnut rosette assistor luteovirus or carrot red leaf luteovirus.
(12) An example of the general use of these methods for the detection of plant virus infections is demonstrated with groundnut rosette virus (GRV) dsRNAs.
(13) Clambering on the steps with a handful of groundnuts is little Ezra, 15 months old, the only child in the village with shoes and the son of Loyce's daughter Brenda Achao - who unusually has her mother's surname.
(14) Percent digestibility of energy for the other two experimental diets was 81.07% when wheat flour was supplemented with groundnut and "masur" flour.
(15) Blood samples were obtained from 70 healthy gobra zebu from three different farms each one with a different feed (natural pasture, concentrates and groundnut hay) to exhibit the influence of type of feeding.
(16) Liver lipids of rats fed bran oil were also markedly lower than their groundnut oil fed counterparts.
(17) In the unsupplemented group, the levels of linoleic and arachidonic acids were low as compared to the groundnut oil fed group.
(18) Possibilities for identifying groundnut varieties partially resistant to aflatoxin production are discussed.
(19) The comparative utilization of cottonseed cake (CSC) diet supplemented with varying levels of oyster shell (0.00, 1.50, 3.00 and 4.50%) as a source of calcium, and groundnut cake (GNC) based diet were evaluated in a feeding trial using 100 day-old HYPECO broiler-chicks.
(20) The quantity of oxalate and tannin in acha, bambara groundnut, guinea corn, millet, sesame seed, soybean and tiger nut were chemically analyzed.