(n.) The hard, white, opaque, fine-grained substance constituting the tusks of the elephant. It is a variety of dentine, characterized by the minuteness and close arrangement of the tubes, as also by their double flexure. It is used in manufacturing articles of ornament or utility.
(n.) The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc.
(n.) Any carving executed in ivory.
(n.) Teeth; as, to show one's ivories.
Example Sentences:
(1) Admirable, but will destroying ivory get that message through to poachers, ivory traffickers and the workshops in east Asia and elsewhere that buy smuggled raw ivory?
(2) Public opposition to the ivory trade has grown, and cooperation between conservationists and local communities has had a dramatic impact.
(3) 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.
(4) In the present study, serum samples were obtained from 4248 individuals from six West African countries, including Senegal, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, and Ivory Coast.
(5) With all attempts at mediation failing - Gbagbo has repeatedly rejected offers of a "safe and dignified" exit - the African Union reaffirmed its recognition of Ouattara as the rightful leader of Ivory Coast in March.
(6) Peter Knights of WildAid, a non-governmental organization (NGO) based in San Francisco, observed that people who argue against the destruction of ivory stockpiles think that having a legal supply is the answer to the poaching problem.
(7) The Ivory Coast international Sagbo had won the penalty from which Hull scored through Robbie Brady – a decision labelled "incredibly soft" by the Norwich manager, Chris Hughton – but minutes later was sent off after he clashed with Russell Martin.
(8) He is with the Ivory Coast at the Africa Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea, meaning he may be unavailable until the middle of next month.
(9) For example, the DRC reported only six ivory seizures in the past two decades, yet was implicated in 396 seizures made outside of the country.
(10) Ivory epiphyses ovvurred more often in children in the lower socio-economic class and children with hemoglobin AA.
(11) He'll miss Ivory Coast's final group game against Greece.
(12) The report contains damning evidence of the potentially toxic nature of the waste Trafigura dumped in Abidjan in the Ivory Coast .
(13) In health car facilities, systems studies are commonly conducted as ivory-tower operations with minimal impact and little practical result.
(14) Kenya's president has set fire to more than five tonnes of elephant ivory worth £10m to draw attention to poaching deaths.
(15) We’ve seen a mind-boggling 49 goals , compared with 25 at the same stage in 2010 – that's almost double, by my calculations There have been only two draws (six in 2010) A remarkable six teams have come from behind to win (Brazil, Holland, Ivory Coast, Switzerland, Costa Rica and Belgium).
(16) Their report includes the results of a survey about the sanitary protection of the children and about the respect of the ideal immunization schedule and recommended in Ivory Coast (39,9% in town and 6,2% in rural area).
(17) Consecutive man-of-the-match performances against Greece and Ivory Coast helped Colombia brush aside the lassitude that swamped the country’s World Cup preparations after injury to their talismanic striker Falcao .
(18) The analysis of these cases of elliptocytosis allow to draw the following conclusions: the frequency of the hereditary elliptocytosis varies between 0.6 to 1 per cent in Ivory Coast, the functional and structural analysis of spectrin show a high global frequency of the elliptocytosis of Model I in relation with an abnormally of alpha I domain of spectrin, all the cases detected don't give any clinical trouble.
(19) And if you want to talk about messages, what kind of message does it send to stockpile ivory like any other valuable commodity?
(20) A realistic elephant might serve as a memento to the hundred elephants killed for their ivory every day.
Poinsettia
Definition:
(n.) A Mexican shrub (Euphorbia pulcherrima) with very large and conspicuous vermilion bracts below the yellowish flowers.
Example Sentences:
(1) A soluble extract from Corynebacterium poinsettiae able to synthesize the nucleotide precursor of ite peptidoglycan was prepared.
(2) The gardenia and poinsettia are named after New World physician-botanists Alexander Garden and Joel Poinsett.
(3) A five-day total diet study of poinsettia produced no gross pathology in Sprague Dawley rats.
(4) Of 8 plant pathogenic bacteria tested against 11 naphthoquinones, Corynebacterium poinsettiae was inhibited by 6 compounds, and Pseudomonas viridiflava was weakly inhibited by one.
(5) Spectra were obtained for seven electrode separations along a Poinsettia stem.
(6) Twelve isolates of Fusarium from corn and one from poinsettias caused increases of five to eight times in weight of the uterus as compared with controls that were fed sound corn.
(7) Poinsettia induced skin photosensitivity in albino rabbits.
(8) Poinsettia latex induced no local toxicity when instilled into the buccal cavity of Sprague Dawley rats.
(9) Only weak cross-reactivity was observed with the peptidoglycans of gram-positive bacteria (Streptococcus faecium, Micrococcus lysodeikticus, Corynebacterium poinsettiae) where meso-diaminopimelic acid is replaced by L-lysine or L-homoserine.
(10) This pattern of blotting was also observed when homogenates of soybean or poinsettia leaves excised from whole plants were probed with anti-V79 gap junction antiserum.
(11) The nucleotide precursors of cell-wall mucopeptide were prepared by vancomycin inhibition of Corynebacterium insidiosum and Corynebacterium poinsettiae.
(12) It is proposed, therefore, that the primary peptide chain contains the l-isomer with its gamma-amino group blocked by acetylation and that cross-linking is achieved by means of the d-isomer, analogous to d-ornithine in C. poinsettiae.
(13) Homoserine in the nucleotide from C. poinsettiae was catalytically oxidized to aspartic acid, which was then shown to be the l-isomer by optical rotatory dispersion of the trinitrophenyl compound.
(14) said a florist, David Hudson, whose Victorian stand in the market was laden with garlands, poinsettias and swags of mistletoe.
(15) Upon repeated exposures poinsettia exhibited mild skin irritation in the albino rabbit.
(16) Only the adjuvant-active PG (extracted from Bacillus megaterium and Staphylococcus aureus) were good inducers of the CF, whereas the adjuvant inactive PG (extracted from Micrococcus lysodeikticus and Corynebacterium poinsettiae) exhibited only weak activity.
(17) Poinsettia latex induced no damage when instilled into the eyes of albino rabbits.