(n.) A genus of herbs (Chenopodium) mostly annual weeds; pigweed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Quinoa is the grain-like seed of a plant in the goosefoot family (other members include spinach, chard, and the wonderful edible weed lambs quarters ), and its appeal is immense.
(2) Allergenic active fractions of ragweed, wormwood, goosefoot and sunflower pollen with a molecular weight of 37 000, 19 000, 35 000 and 14 000, respectively, were isolated by chromatography on Sephadex.
(3) Infusions and decoctions of the leaves, roots and inflorescences of the herbaceous shrub Chenopodium ambrosioides (American wormseed, goosefoot, epazote, paico) and related species indigenous to the New World have been used for centuries as dietary condiments and as traditional anthelmintics by native peoples for the treatment of intestinal worms.
Quinoa
Definition:
(n.) The seeds of a kind of goosewort (Chenopodium Quinoa), used in Chili and Peru for making porridge or cakes; also, food thus made.
Example Sentences:
(1) Try the sweet potato falafel, quinoa, roast vegetables, harissa and sumac yogurt ($23).
(2) Some of the viruses could be differentiated from each other (especially in C. quinoa) by other characters, such as the accumulation of membranes in cell nuclei, or the type of organelle (chloroplasts, mitochondria or peroxisomes) from which multivesicular bodies developed.
(3) When it was first licensed for the European food market six years ago, baobab was – with a certain inevitability –proclaimed a superfood to rival quinoa, blueberries and kale.
(4) OKCupid knows how likely you are to put out on the first date , the NSA knows you eat a lot of quinoa, and all 962 of your Facebook friends have caught a glimpse of you in an ill-advised bikini.
(5) Become a resident of N1 (Islington), and you might live in a flat with no heating above a noisy main road, but goddammit, you're going to eat quinoa.
(6) The animal experiments showed NPU values of 75.7, BV of 82.6 and TD value of 91.7 for the protein in raw quinoa.
(7) Perhaps the powers from on high will decide that picnics in Kensington Gardens can only comprise quinoa salads and raw broccoli.
(8) A packet of quinoa insists: “Mix with chicken stir-fry.
(9) The changes in proximate composition, amino acid content and protein efficiency ratio (PER) caused by hot-water extraction of the saponins were studied in four Bolivian varieties of quinua (Chenopodium quinoa, Willd).
(10) Quinoa is the grain-like seed of a plant in the goosefoot family (other members include spinach, chard, and the wonderful edible weed lambs quarters ), and its appeal is immense.
(11) Double-stranded RNA preparations from Chenopodium quinoa leaves inoculated with two English isolates of beet soil-borne virus (BSBV), BSBV-N and BSBV-452N, a French isolate of beet necrotic yellow vein virus (BNYVV), a Swedish isolate of a tubular beet virus (86-109) or a Belgian isolate of a similar virus (1530) were compared following separation on non-denaturing polyacrylamide gels.
(12) "C an vegans stomach the unpalatable truth about quinoa?," thunders the headline of a recent Guardian piece .
(13) For example, at Dora in Poi ( Via Catania 21 ) in Vanchiglietta, the restaurant where Vassily and I work, all our base ingredients are Piemontese – such as rice, garlic and salmon – but we have created dishes with influences from northern Europe, Asia and South America, so you’ll see plenty of ceviche, dim sum, ramen-style soup and quinoa.
(14) We can’t isolate just the fact that we‘re using suqakollos but we can say that between the water management, the soil management and the fertiliser management, we are reaching double the harvest numbers.” Figures for 2013-14 indicate that s uqakollo ’s crop yields for quinoa are 3.2 tonnes per hectare, more than double the average of 1.3 tonnes per hectare for the same crop grown on the plain.
(15) To test this hypothesis, several C. quinoa isolates of BNYVV with different RNA-3 and -4 contents have been retransmitted to sugarbeet root via P. betae.
(16) The biological activity of the RNAs transcribed from these constructs was tested in Chenopodium quinoa protoplasts using a helper virus.
(17) Breads baked with 5% and 10% quinoa flour were of good quality.
(18) Among five plant species tested, only Chenopodium quinoa accumulated large amounts of viral particles.
(19) Transcripts having either six (M1R) or 29 (M3R) extra nucleotides at their 5' ends replicated in the presence of ArMV genomic RNA in manually inoculated Chenopodium quinoa plants, even though M1R also differs from the native sequence at nucleotide position 2.
(20) Cake taste improved with either 5% or 10% quinoa flour in the blend.