(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.
Nut
Definition:
(n.) The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing a kernel.
(n.) A perforated block (usually a small piece of metal), provided with an internal or female screw thread, used on a bolt, or screw, for tightening or holding something, or for transmitting motion. See Illust. of lst Bolt.
(n.) The tumbler of a gunlock.
(n.) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
(v. i.) To gather nuts.
Example Sentences:
(1) The prevalence of kola nut chewing and the effects attributed to it are briefly reviewed.
(2) It also hydrolyzes (Man)2-GlcNAc from the urine of an alpha-mannosidosis patient, 1,4-D-mannobiose and mannotriose isolated from ivory nut mannan, 4-O-beta-D-mannopyranosyl-L-rhamnose, 6-O-beta-D-mannopyranosyl-D-galactose and 4-O-beta-D-mannopyranosyl-N-acetylglucosamine.
(3) But she noticed Mohamed getting smaller and sicker, until she eventually brought him to the centre, where the nuns give him F-75 – an enriched formula adapted for malnourished children, fortified porridge, plumpy nut, and soup with meat and fish.
(4) Boric acid, propionic acid and potassium metabisulphite were used for the control of aflatoxin B1 on betel nuts.
(5) Increased slippage torques of approximately 100 per cent were noted in all interfaces at low values of tightening torque (6 and 8 N m) of the wing-nut clamp and improvements of not less than 50 per cent were obtained at higher tightening torques (10 and 12 N m) on the wing-nut clamp.
(6) The effects of addition of ethanol to diets containing rapeseed or ground nut oil on the metabolic conversions of 14 14C erucic and 9-10 3H oleic acid were studied in the rat liver.
(7) Twenty-three fruits, 33 vegetables, 41 grain products, 7 legumes, 4 nuts, and 9 miscellaneous foods were analyzed by an accurate chemical method to determine their dietary fiber content and composition.
(8) Woodcock said: “The way [Miliband] was trying to appeal to people … was nuts.
(9) Electrophoresis of the piñon nut extract demonstrated 30 bands, three of which (in the 66 to 68,000 dalton range) bound IgE in the patient's serum in an immunoblot.
(10) Nuts, tomatoes, milk, eggs and cereals were most frequently involved.
(11) Powdered slaked lime applied to the chewed Areca nut with Piper betle inflorescence at the corner of the mouth causes the mean pH to rise to 10, at which reactive oxygen species are generated from betel quid ingredients in vitro.
(12) So should we indulge our nut cravings or will that just add inches to the waist?
(13) Peter Spence (@Pete_Spence) Haldane, Goodhart, and more on "Is this nuts?"
(14) Because there is no known nut site cis to 'trpA, we suggest that the 'trpA segment itself fortuitously contains a nut sequence that is able to function with excess N of any of the types tested and with either NusAEc or NusASal.
(15) Onto one of the harder nuts to crack this season is best foreign film .
(16) My mum thought it was a bad idea, because the chefs were nuts, always drunk.
(17) In the Russian gallery, for example, the courageous Vadim Zakharov presents a pointed version of the Danaë myth in which an insouciant dictator (of whom it is hard not to think: Putin) sits on a high beam on a saddle, shelling nuts all day while gold coins rain down from a vast shower-head only to be hoisted in buckets by faceless thuggish men in suits.
(18) Toxicological study was carried out in rats with chloroform-soluble fraction of the nuts of Semecarpus anacardium to determine its safe non-toxic dose.
(19) The specificity and cross-reactivity of IgE antibodies to different nut antigens was investigated by RAST inhibition with serums from 5 patients having high levels of IgE antibody.
(20) Fresh fruit and vegetable sales rose by about 5% while fish, poultry and nuts saw similar growth.