(a.) Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of America; as, Indian wars; the Indian tomahawk.
(a.) Made of maize or Indian corn; as, Indian corn, Indian meal, Indian bread, and the like.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of India.
(n.) One of the aboriginal inhabitants of America; -- so called originally from the supposed identity of America with India.
Example Sentences:
(1) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
(2) Overall length of stay found in this study (14.02 days) is considerably higher than Indian optimum.
(3) Hemoglobin British Columbia was found in an East Indian living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
(4) Abnormal albuminuria at levels not reliably detected by the usual dipstick methods was commonly observed in Pima Indians with diabetes, even those with diabetes of recent onset.
(5) The organisation initially focused on education, funding the Indian company BYJU’s, which helps students learn maths and science, and the Nigerian company Andela, which trains African software developers.
(6) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
(7) The relationships of birth weight and maternal diabetes to the development of obesity were examined at 5-19 yr of age in the offspring of Pima Indian women.
(8) The papilla incisiva of the Japanese children were a little larger than those of the Indians.
(9) n. from the body cavity of Scomber scombrus from the Indian ocean is described.
(10) The majority of the patients were Chinese (78.0%), followed by Malays (11.5%), Indians (8.1%) and other minority races (2.4%).
(11) According to the International Energy Agency, 147m Indians will remain without electricity into 2030 under a business as usual scenario emphasising coal.
(12) UPDATE II [Tues.] Two other items that may be of interest: first, Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger was the guest for the full hour yesterday on Democracy Now, discussing the paper's role in reporting the NSA stories, and the video and transcript of the interview are here ; second, marking our collaboration on a series of articles about spying on Indians, the Hindu has a long interview with me on a variety of related topics, here .
(13) Indian women are aware of our tenuous grip on our rights.
(14) In a BBC Radio 4 performance that attempts to underline his status as a normal bloke – although he admits he was too "square" to attract a girlfriend at university – Miliband's luxury item is a weekly chicken tikka masala from his local north London Indian takeaway.
(15) While winds gusting to 170mph caused significant damage, the devastation in areas such as Tacloban – where scenes are reminiscent of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami – was principally the work of the 6-metre-high storm surge, which carried away even the concrete buildings in which many people sought shelter.
(16) Theresa May to visit India in signal of trading priorities post-Brexit Read more Cable said India had been keen to expand “ Mode 4 ” market access: the ability to bring in staff – Indian IT experts, for example – as part of trading in services.
(17) A recent report indicated that an arrow poison used by the native Indians of Rondonia, Brazil, to kill small animals was associated with profuse bleeding.
(18) Massive protests in the 1990s by Indian, Latin American and south-east Asian peasant farmers, indigenous groups and their supporters put the companies on the back foot, and they were reluctantly forced to shelve the technology after the UN called for a de-facto moratorium in 2000.
(19) Lord Foster, the architect, who was ennobled in 1999, and Lord Bagri, the Indian metal magnate, resigned last night.
(20) Fifty-six (92%) of patients dying from pulmonary embolism were of African descent while 5 (8%) were of East Indian descent.
Maize
Definition:
(n.) A large species of American grass of the genus Zea (Z. Mays), widely cultivated as a forage and food plant; Indian corn. Also, its seed, growing on cobs, and used as food for men animals.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their contour lengths varied from 0.28 to 51 micron, but unlike in the case of maize, a large difference was not observed in the distribution of molecular classes greater than 1.0 micron between N and S cytoplasms of sugar beet.
(2) The optimum is 30 degrees C for the maize isolate and only 20 degrees C for the haricot bean isolate.
(3) The lambs of the second group were given 1200-1500 g of concentrate pellets and 300 g chopped wheat straw, and those of the third group were given 800 and 1050 g each of concentrate pellets, and 540 g and 720 g of pellets of whole maize plant containing 40 per cent.
(4) Fumonisins are mycotoxins produced by strains belonging to several different mating populations of Gibberella fujikuroi (anamorphs, Fusarium section Liseola), a major pathogen of maize and sorghum worldwide.
(5) Additionally, the component parts of Mu elements exist separately in the maize genome.
(6) The orf25 coding region shares greater than 85% identity with orf25 sequences from maize, tobacco and wheat, suggesting that orf25 may code for a conserved protein product.
(7) A pollen-specific cDNA clone, Zmc13, has been isolated from a cDNA library constructed to poly(A) RNA from mature maize pollen.
(8) In vivo, in vitro, and in situ plant assays are presented, and the maize wx locus assay is discussed.
(9) When electroporated into maize protoplasts from a suspension cell line not synthesizing anthocyanins, reporter genes with Bz2, Bz1, and A1 promoters are expressed only when both R and C1 expression plasmids are co-electroporated.
(10) The promoter segment of a plant gene (maize alcohol dehydrogenase 1 (Adh 1)) has been fused to two bacterial reporter genes, Ecogpt (1) and neo (2), in pSV2-derived vectors and introduced into cultured mammalian cells by DNA transfection.
(11) The primary amino acid sequence of the enzyme exhibits only 25.0% and 21.1% identity with 177 and 151 amino acid residues of maize glutathione S-transferase I and rat glutathione S-transferase Yb2, respectively.
(12) In studies with PEPC isolated from leaves of maize, an assay coupled with reduction of OAA to malate was compared with product analysis using high-performance liquid chromatography and an assay based on Pi release.
(13) The diet of pre-school children in this region of Kenya consists foremost of maize and milk.
(14) of fission neutrons for the induction of yellow-green sectors in maize.
(15) In-vitro, PAA showed the best bioadhesive properties, followed by modified maize starch and PEG with a mol.
(16) Three trials were conducted at the beginning of lactation, with maize silage, grass silage or grass silage and hay based diets.
(17) Each field is like a room: mostly wheat or pasture but occasionally barley, oilseed rape, maize or broad beans.
(18) The carboxy-terminal part of the maize homeodomain protein is related to the human Oct2 transcription factor, but homology to the POU specific domain is restricted to the POU-B subdomain.
(19) The staples of the poor consisted of one or two bulky carbohydrate meals (derivatives of different species of cocoyam, cassava, yam and maize) eaten with vegetable soup in palm oil, melon seeds, snail, occasional meat and fish.
(20) One pair of sheep was fed on the frozen grass and the other pair was fed on the grass-maize pellets.