(v. t.) Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; -- commonly used in the plural.
(v. t.) The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3.
(v. t.) The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it.
(v. t.) The spore cases or conceptacles of flowerless plants, as of ferns, mosses, algae, etc., with the spores contained in them.
(v. t.) The produce of animals; offspring; young; as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body.
(v. t.) That which is produced; the effect or consequence of any action; advantageous or desirable product or result; disadvantageous or evil consequence or effect; as, the fruits of labor, of self-denial, of intemperance.
(v. i.) To bear fruit.
Example Sentences:
(1) The recent rise in manufacturing has been welcomed by George Osborne as a sign that his economic policies are bearing fruit.
(2) 4) Parents imagined that fruit drinks, carbonated beverages and beverages with lactic acid promoted tooth decay.
(3) Severe fruit rot of guava due to Phytophthora nicotianae var.
(4) Instead, they say, we should only eat plenty of lean meat and fish, with fruit and raw vegetables on the side.
(5) Fruiting revertants of these strains accumulate wild-type levels of alpha-mannosidase-1 activity, suggesting that both the enzymatic and morphological defects are caused by single mutations in nonstructural genes essential for early development.
(6) Further evidence showing that the fruit of the black nightshade contains acetylcholine was obtained by chromatographic separation of the aqueous extract.
(7) Strong positive associations were found in both sexes for low fruit and vegetable consumption, high intake of salted meat and "mate" ingestion.
(8) We therefore surveyed patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) regarding early adult consumption of fruits and vegetables usually eaten raw, with seeds that are swallowed or scraped with the teeth.
(9) Phil Barlow Nottingham • Reading about the problems caused by a lack of toilets reminded me of the harvest camps my father’s Birmingham school organised in the Vale of Evesham during the war, where the sixth-formers spent weeks picking fruit and vegetables on farms.
(10) Scott insisted he was an abstract painter in the way he felt Chardin was too: the pans and fruit were uninteresting in themselves; they were merely "the means of making a picture", which was a study in space, form and colour.
(11) It is not likely that this is going to be fruitful.
(12) Dietary recommendations for cancer prevention advise reduced intake of fat; increased intake of fruits, vegetables, and grains; and moderate intake of alcohol and salt-cured, salt-pickled, and smoked foods.
(13) The latest filed accounts show Coates and her family have started to enjoy the fruits of their labour, sharing almost £75m in dividends over three years.
(14) During development of tomato fruit, most DNA-protein interactions in the rbcS promoter regions disappear, coincident with the transcriptional inactivation of the rbcS genes.
(15) Four years on from that speech, his strategy is bearing fruit – in a less than palatable way.
(16) (2) The Bunsen-Roscoe Law of Reciprocity was found to hold for the photoinduction of fruiting bodies for the interval 36 to 2000 sec with light of 448 nm.
(17) However, the tip cells are slow to differentiate, and hence immature fruiting bodies contain a small population of undifferentiated tip cells.
(18) The data suggest that a learning approach to the origins of attentional biases in anxious subjects might be fruitful.
(19) From Tuesday, the Neckarsulm-based grocer will be the official supplier of water, fish, fruit and vegetables for Roy Hodgson’s boys under a multimillion-pound three-year deal with the Football Association.
(20) In order to uncover the role of G proteins in the integrative functioning and development of the nervous system, we have begun a multidisciplinary study of the G proteins present in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.
Mulberry
Definition:
(n.) The berry or fruit of any tree of the genus Morus; also, the tree itself. See Morus.
(n.) A dark pure color, like the hue of a black mulberry.
Example Sentences:
(1) Intravascular "mulberry-like" bodies in a stillborn female infant with moderate maceration are reported.
(2) Forty-eight intact male pigs were used to investigate the influence of source of protein supplement, corn moisture content, and supplemental vitamin E-selenium survived the cidence of mulberry heart disease, hepatosis dietetica and associated lesions.
(3) The first two approaches permitted classification of deposits into globular deposits, "Mulberry-like growths", opaque deposits, protein films and red spots.
(4) Kefalonia (near Sami) Where to stay: Karavomilos Beach Camping Not far from Sami – the old capital of the island, where much of Captain Corelli was filmed – this campsite is set on a good beach and the pitches are nicely shaded by eucalyptus and mulberry trees.
(5) Cowhide and goatskin are used to make Mulberry goods, as well as ostrich leather and alligator skins.
(6) When you can't afford a Mulberry mac, a Mac lipstick in mulberry might be just the ticket.
(7) Pharmacological studies were done on the root bark of mulberry tree and pharmacological effects were compared with the clinical effects of "Sohakuhi" in Chinese medicine.
(8) The second type is an easily recognized opaque, white, elevated, multinodular calcified lesion that is frequently described as resembling a mulberry.
(9) Mulberry has partnerships with manufacturers in Turkey, Spain, Portugal and China, but Speed is keen to highlight the company’s credentials as a British manufacturer.
(10) You know, sweet little British labels such as Mulberry, Betty Jackson, Whistles – labels that pretty much bellow, "Nothing to fear her!
(11) It is concluded, that intravascular "mulberry-bodies" most likely represent artifacts due to red blood cell autolysis.
(12) Photograph: Anna Gordon The crossbench peer, who founded Cobra Beer, appears as one of more than 100 shareholders in a Virgin Islands company called Mulberry Holdings Asset Limited.
(13) Like his 16 family members, and almost every other Afghan ensconced under the mulberry trees of Athens’ Victoria Square, his motto is “move, move, move”.
(14) Where Burberry also wins points over Mulberry is through story-telling and opportunity for personalisation, especially across digital channels.
(15) High power and oil immersion microscopy showed that the surface of the nuclei in the neoplastic cells were convoluted in form of cerebral gyrus or mulberry.
(16) n-Butanol- and water-soluble fractions of mulberry root had similar effects except for those on the cadiovascular system.
(17) The crystals grew by appositional layering into microliths and then by aggregation into mulberry-shaped stones.
(18) Zoe Lagadec, a solicitor at Mulberry’s Employment Law Solicitors, said the searches “should be considered working time and therefore paid in accordance with the national minimum wage provisions”, while the penalties were “arguably a breach of the national minimum wage, which carries both criminal and civil sanctions”.
(19) There appears to be a correlation between the experimental pharmacological results and the clinical applications of mulberry root found in the literature on Chinese medicine.
(20) These are highly skilled people and this will never be taken over by a machine, that’s for sure.” Back at head office, Godfrey Davis will be hoping that it is not just supermodel collaborations but skilled staff in Somerset that can reignite the British love affair with Mulberry.