(1) It's a sad fact that many people will choose flavourless, clinically uniform, gas-ripened Dutch tomatoes over fat, knobbly, variegated, juicy homegrowns.
(2) I long for a strict nanny state, to bring back rationing, so no one would be allowed to over-stuff themselves with great slabs of meat daily, or waste their crusts or peelings, reject twirly cucumbers or knobbly fruit and veg.
(3) Is handing over your hard-earned cash for knobbly produce and smaller cuts of meat enticing?
(4) As with the sectioned material, fibres in some preparations were smooth and 15-16 nm in diameter, whereas those in others were more knobbly and about 35 nm thick.
(5) By contrast, the short tunic dress I opted for, in a misguided moment of thinking I could stay aloof from all the Oscars fussiness, feels almost frumpy as the evening goes on, even disrespectful, what with my knobbly knees showing (handkerchief clutched to lips in horror).
(6) It was a cheap thing, but a pleasingly buttery colour with knobbly legs around which I used to curl my bare feet when eating breakfast.
(7) Who wants to pay £5 for a knobbly potato, served by a farmer who is probably already massively subsidised by us to start with?
(8) • Doubles from €95, +351 273 919 031, lagostaperdida.com 14 Old Portugal , Ponte de Lima Facebook Twitter Pinterest Casa De Pomarchão is a 15th-century baronial home that was enlarged in 1775 in the curly, knobbly Pombaline style.
(9) ‘Rugosa’ (from Seeds of Italy) and ‘Summer Crookneck’ (from The Real Seed Catalogue) are summer squash (essentially, they mature to have a harder skin), but, picked early, the wonderful, knobbly fruit have a great flavour and can be eaten like courgettes.
(10) The knobbly forms that rear out of the sea have been given names such as Shelagh's Head, the Giant's Head, Wishing Arch, Elephant Rock and Lion's Paw.
(11) First, a warning: if it's an impartial commentary you're after, you should probably know that you've come to the wrong palace, because I'm sitting here trying to type with a roasary beads entwined between the fingers of each hand, a pig under each arm and a knobbly stick clamped between my teeth.
(12) Knobbly carrots, wonky spuds, bent courgettes and discoloured cauliflowers will return to supermarket shelves after one of the worst growing seasons farmers have experienced in decades.
(13) It was only when my father got an allotment that I tried curly kale (so hip now, but then so unfashionable it was eaten only by those who wore socks with their Dr Scholl sandals), fresh beetroot, and a potato that was neither Maris Piper nor King Edward (the knobbly pink fir apple).
Knobby
Definition:
(a.) Full of, or covered with, knobs or hard protuberances.
(a.) Irregular; stubborn in particulars.
(a.) Abounding in rounded hills or mountains; hilly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Uninfected erythrocytes incubated in culture and erythrocytes infected with early or late forms of the knobless clones or the early forms of the knobby clone all failed to obstruct the microcirculation, although exhibiting various effects on bulk viscosity and peripheral resistance during flow.
(2) Other blebs were larger, more elongate, and less knobby, but had a similar ultrastructural organization.
(3) Indirect immunofluorescence, using affinity-purified monospecific antibodies directed against recombinant protein synthesized in Escherichia coli, localized the knob-associated histidine-rich protein to the membrane of knobby infected erythrocytes.
(4) Atypical, short, knobby mycelia with radiating projections were seen in nodular lesions in the lung.
(5) In the vas deferens, the knobby fibers, the diameters of which are multiples of that of the basic one, can be converted to single units by increasing the ionic strength.
(6) The nucleolar fibres in both the core and peripheral regions were irregular and knobby, with a diameter of about 15 nm.
(7) Binding of both knobby and knobless infected erythrocytes to autologous leukocytes including monocytes, neutrophils, lymphocytes and plasma cells was found in some of the primary in vitro cultures.
(8) The only gross morphologic change in stifle joints with a severed ligament was enlarged knobby remnants of the CaCL.
(9) Differential screening of cDNA libraries constructed from knobby and predominantly knobless Plasmodium falciparum isolates, identified the sequence SD17.
(10) These proteins appeared to be aggregated or condensed in the area of the knob, whereas the remainder of the red cell surface showed no such dense clusters; haemoglobin and the histidine-rich protein of P. lophurae could not be localized to the knobby protuberances.
(11) Erythrocytes infected with a knobby variant of Plasmodium falciparum selectively bind IgG autoantibodies in normal human serum.
(12) The change from a nucleosomal organization to bundles of smooth filaments appeared to result from a complex process involving the transitory presence of conspicuous "knobby fibers" that suggest a periodicity in the organization of the spermatidal proteins along the DNA molecules.
(13) The observed alterations in P falciparum-infected red cell membrane phospholipid distribution, which is independent of the presence or absence of knobby protuberances, might be associated with the drastic changes in cell membrane permeability and susceptibility to early hemolysis observed in the late stages of parasite development.
(14) Naturally occurring anti-band 3 autoantibodies bind to erythrocytes infected with a knobby variant of the human malaria Plasmodium falciparum (FCR-3 strain).
(15) The dendrites have knobby, nodular protuberances which give them a gnarled appearance.
(16) This unusual ornamentation consists of blunt projections rising out of an otherwise smooth surface and is termed "knobby."
(17) The projection of knobby protuberances at the cell surface (zeiosis) is a general cellular response to cytochalasin D (CD), resulting from herniation of endoplasm through undefended places of the cortex during cell contractions and displacement of microfilaments induced by CD.
(18) The lowest band (band I) was found to consist of thick rod-shaped particles (330 by 80 nm) with knobby surfaces and with occasional protrusion at one end.
(19) The genomic organization of the knob protein (KP) gene of knobby (K+) and knobless (K-) variants of the Thai isolate NT 108 and the Gambian isolate FCR-3 are compared.
(20) In this study, we used the technique of whole cell mount electron microscopy to determine if the ultrastructure of the erythrocyte cytoskeleton changed following parasitization with knobby and knobless strains of P. falciparum.