(n.) An aromatic plant of the genus Lavandula (L. vera), common in the south of Europe. It yields and oil used in medicine and perfumery. The Spike lavender (L. Spica) yields a coarser oil (oil of spike), used in the arts.
(n.) The pale, purplish color of lavender flowers, paler and more delicate than lilac.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effect of volatile oils of lavender, monarda, and basil on the course of experimental atherosclerosis was studied in rabbit experiments.
(2) People often come to Provence just to see the lavender."
(3) The sedative properties of the essential oil of Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia Miller) and of its main constituents--linalool and linalyl acetate--were investigated in mice followed up in a series of experimental procedures.
(4) Perhaps they'll have to CGI old footage of Lavender into the scenes with Jones and Nighy.
(5) It looked like a banana split to me,” Lavender told the Birmingham Mail .
(6) I’m just working through my hobbies.” In the meantime, he’s just finished filming a one-off drama about the making of Dad’s Army , in which he plays Ian (Private Pike) Lavender.
(7) The culprit is a mini cicada called a cicadelle which French lavender producers believe has proliferated because of hotter, drier summers, blamed on global warming.
(8) I sat quietly wearing it and nobody really noticed.” Lavender, one of the few surviving cast members from the original series, has a small role as Brigadier Pritchard in the film , which stars Toby Jones as Captain Mainwaring and Bill Nighy as Sergeant Wilson.
(9) Examinations of the basic material for removable dentures, coated with rose, lavender, sage wax evidence that such coating essentially reduces residual methylmetacrylate migration and its side effect on the denture bed tissues, and improves the hygienic characteristics of dentures.
(10) On set to shoot a cameo in the movie, Lavender, 68, was struck by lemon additions on the scarf worn by Blake Harrison, who plays Pike.
(11) Lavender was 22 in 1968, when he got the part of Pike, joining a cast of already venerable and respected thesps – including Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Clive Dunn and John Laurie – in his first substantial professional role.
(12) Some of them may now house galleries and ice-cream parlours that sell strawberry and lavender sorbet, but family businesses such as Schicketanz butchers and Seidel’s bakery will keep the area grounded.
(13) She was a querulous and bad-tempered country woman who was required to admire the hub of empire from the dispiriting vantage of a house in Lavender Gardens, at the top of Battersea Rise.
(14) There are around 30 types of lavender, producing flowers of varying colours including purple, pink and white.
(15) Scientists are now looking for lavender varieties resistant to the micro-bacterium.
(16) A succession of winners made amusing and self-deprecating speeches – Lord Falconer (Oldie slimmer of the year) , Ian Lavender (Stupid Oldie Boy of the year) – though the warmest applause was for Bridget Riley (Stripe Artist of the year) who won everyone’s heart by her touching sincerity.
(17) France has 1,700 lavender producers working 16,000 hectares of lavandin, along with another 4,000 hectares of strictly controlled "pure" lavender.
(18) Returning to the world of Harry Potter, the character of Lavender Brown was recast from a black actor in the first films to a white actor just in time for her to become a romantic prospect for Ron Weasley.
(19) This mummy's boy, along with a bunch of doddery gents, may have constituted Blighty's laughable last line of defence against Nazi invasion, but there is nothing wimpish about Lavender's handshake.
(20) After playing Herbert Pocket, in Lean's Great Expectations (1946), and Fagin, in Oliver Twist (1948), Guinness went on to a series of glorious Ealing comedies - perhaps most memorably as the bankteller-turned-robber Henry Holland in Charles Crichton's The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), for which he was nominated for an Oscar, and as the criminal Professor Marcus, in Alexander Mackendrick's The Ladykillers (1955).
Plant
Definition:
(n.) A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule.
(n.) A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
(n.) The sole of the foot.
(n.) The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a railroad.
(n.) A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick.
(n.) An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
(n.) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
(n.) To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize.
(n.) To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots.
(n.) To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest.
(n.) To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
(n.) To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony.
(n.) To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen.
(n.) To set firmly; to fix; to set and direct, or point; as, to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a standard in any place; to plant one's feet on solid ground; to plant one's fist in another's face.
(n.) To set up; to install; to instate.
(v. i.) To perform the act of planting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
(2) A phytochemical investigation of an ethanolic extract of the whole plant of Echites hirsuta (Apocynaceae) resulted in the isolation and identification of the flavonoids naringenin, aromadendrin (dihydrokaempferol), and kaempferol; the coumarin fraxetin; the triterpene ursolic acid; and the sterol glycoside sitosteryl glucoside.
(3) Herbalists in Baja California Norte, Mexico, were interviewed to determine the ailments and diseases most frequently treated with 22 commonly used medicinal plants.
(4) This paper has considered the effects and potential application of PFCs, their emulsions and emulsion components for regulating growth and metabolic functions of microbial, animal and plant cells in culture.
(5) Labour MP Jamie Reed, whose Copeland constituency includes Sellafield, called on the government to lay out details of a potential plan to build a new Mox plant at the site.
(6) Plaque size, appearance, and number were influenced by diluent, incubation temperature after nutrient overlay, centrifugation of inoculated tissue cultures, and number of host cells planted initially in each flask.
(7) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
(8) Equal numbers of handled and unhandled puparia were planted out at different densities (1, 2, 4 or 8 per linear metre) in fifty-one natural puparial sites in four major vegetation types.
(9) 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.
(10) In later years, the church built a business empire that included the Washington Times newspaper, the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, Bridgeport University in Connecticut, as well as a hotel and a car plant in North Korea.
(11) One example of this increased data generation is the emergence of genomic selection, which uses statistical modeling to predict how a plant will perform before field testing.
(12) The effects of lowering the temperature from 25 degrees C to 2-8 degrees C on carbohydrate metabolism by plant cells are considered.
(13) He fashioned alliances with France in the 1950s, and planted the seeds for Israel’s embryonic electronics and aircraft industries.
(14) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(15) Results in this preliminary study demonstrate the need to evaluate the hazard of microbial aerosols generated by sewage treatment plants similar to the one studied.
(16) However, it was concluded that the biochemical models fail to give a complete description of photosynthesis in plants using the C4-dicarboxylic acid cycle.
(17) Subsequently the plant protein was partially purified from leaf extract.
(18) Ecological risk assessments are used by the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) and other governmental agencies to assist in determining the probability and magnitude of deleterious effects of hazardous chemicals on plants and animals.
(19) A model is proposed for the study of plant breeding where the self-fertilization rate is of importance.
(20) The behavior and effects of atmospheric emissions in soils and plants are discussed.