(a.) Having the color of gold; as, the golden grain.
(a.) Very precious; highly valuable; excellent; eminently auspicious; as, golden opinions.
Example Sentences:
(1) The microsomal preparations from untreated Syrian golden hamster livers exhibited higher activities of N-demethylation towards the macrolide antibiotics, erythromycin and troleandomycin, than those from untreated and phenobarbital-treated rats.
(2) Fertilization of golden hamster eggs was blocked both in vitro and in vivo by antibodies produced in rabbits against specific hamster ovarian antigens (HOA).
(3) A golden toad (Bufo periglenes) in Monteverde Cloud forest reserve in Puntarenas province of Costa Rica.
(4) Malignant melanoma of the conjunctival region was induced in the golden Syrian hamster.
(5) Subcutaneous polymorphic sarcomas were induced in 8 out 27 offspring of syrian golden Hamsters after treatment of pregnant mother animals at day 15 of gestation with Adenovirus 12.
(6) Gassman and Hoffman were both given Golden Lions for life achievement.
(7) Greek police have said the 45-year old man arrested over the attack has admitted being a member of the extremist Golden Dawn Party.
(8) "Before the last election the government promised to usher in a 'golden age' for the arts.
(9) Far from securing the regime change they were seeking, the creditors now find that Syriza is being supported by all Greek political parties apart from the communists and the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn.
(10) Exposure to short daylengths arrests the oestrous cycle, provokes daily gonadotrophin surges and reduces the ability of exogenous oestradiol to trigger behavioural receptivity in golden hamsters.
(11) Skin tyrosinase levels and the eumelanin and phaeomelanin contents of the hair were measured in pubertal and adult C3H-HeA*vy mice that grow dark and golden yellow hair respectively.
(12) It sells itself to British tourists as a holiday heaven of golden beaches, flamenco dresses and well-stocked sherry bars, but southern Andalucía – home to the Costa del Sol – has now become the focus of worries about the euro.
(13) Queen's speech: the day ‘psychoactive drugs’ tripped off the royal tongue Read more The first Queen’s speech of the second term should be golden.
(14) MFH was administered in drinking water continuously for life to Swiss mice and Syrian (golden) hamsters.
(15) Flagellar movement of golden hamster spermatozoa obtained from the testis and the caput and cauda epididymides was observed by a light microscope while holding them at their heads with a micropipette.
(16) This study examined the effects of ethanol and hereditary cardiomyopathy on sodium and water excretion by golden Syrian hamsters of both sexes.
(17) And this isn’t a thrill confined to some mythical vanished golden age.
(18) The data obtained suggest a major energy power of the skeletal muscles as well as initiation of non-contractile heat production in them in the golden hamsters adapted to cold.
(19) Mammotrophs or prolactin (PRL) cells were identified in the adenohypophysis of adult golden hamsters by immunocytochemical techniques with a polyclonal anti-PRL, that was proved to be specific to PRL by the dot immunoblotting test.
(20) In a long piece on the Daily Beast, he also revealed that Mia Farrow had granted permission for her image to be used in film clips honouring Allen during the Golden Globes, and expressed surprise at her Twitter reaction.
Scuppernong
Definition:
(n.) An American grape, a form of Vitis vulpina, found in the Southern Atlantic States, and often cultivated.