(n.) A shrub of the genus Syringa. There are six species, natives of Europe and Asia. Syringa vulgaris, the common lilac, and S. Persica, the Persian lilac, are frequently cultivated for the fragrance and beauty of their purplish or white flowers. In the British colonies various other shrubs have this name.
(n.) A light purplish color like that of the flower of the purplish lilac.
Example Sentences:
(1) People brought flowers, and large piles of roses, lilac, tulips and carnations lay by the blackened doors.
(2) Under the vast murals of Oslo's City Hall, the traditional venue for the Nobel peace prize lectures, Aung Sun Suu Kyi appeared impossibly small, entering the hall wearing a purple jacket and flowing lilac scarf to the sound of a trumpet fanfare.
(3) The Lilac facility has no bed and no computer,” the letter says.
(4) At Mjoifjordur the stripes of seaweed follow the contours of the shoreline in bright colours – lilac, red and gold.
(5) Shortly after Hett’s first message, a friend got in contact to say he wanted to buy “ an adorable lilac glove monster ” for £2.
(6) B cells, which occupy the interior of the islet, display a lilac color.
(7) In fact, after just one day the pink coat would probably be a smudgy lilac coat, and after one more day it would be a sludgy grey coat.
(8) Birch twig and marguerite most frequently induced symptoms, followed by strongly smelling flowers such as hyacinth, lilac, and lily of the valley.
(9) In an earlier preliminary round in April, Justice Stephen Kaye ordered the commonwealth to delay the planned demolition of the alluringly named Aqua and Lilac compounds on Christmas Island.
(10) Then there’s a little payoff at the end, where, as you get really old, you become androgynous again.” He can’t wait for his 70s: if he’s got his hair, he’s going for the lilac rinse.
(11) The liberated p-nitroaniline was converted in situ into a lilac-coloured product using the Bratton-Marshall reaction.
(12) They also revealed the pride in finding out she had passed 11 GCSEs, tempered with the bittersweet knowledge she was not there to open her own results letter, nor wear the lilac dress she bought for the school prom.
(13) This article describes the evolution of prenatal care in Latin America during the past 2 decades based on a literature review which utilized the Medline, Popline, and Lilacs (Pan American Health Organization) data bases.
(14) Aceto-white epithelium develops reddish color in case of medium-mature metaplasia, brown-violet in case of mature metaplasia, lilac in case of superficial koilocytosis on metaplasia.
(15) As the sky turned lilac, I saw hundreds flutter past – red and blue macaws in pairs, companies of green parrots, flotillas of ibis gliding in elegant V-formation, as well as toucans, nightjars, lapwings and pauraques.
(16) While we waited, a group of fighters made us tea in plastic cups with a lilac-coloured kettle, and we talked about life in the warzone.
(17) Synthetic transcripts of a satellite RNA associated with a lilac isolate of arabis mosaic nepovirus (ArMV) were made from cDNA clones.
(18) His next two books, Once in Europa (1987) and Lilac and Flag (1990), were each a collection of discrete stories accumulating into a novel, and were brought together with Pig Earth in a trilogy published as Into Their Labours (1992).
(19) The skit features the twosome as Bryce Shivers (Ronseal tan, lilac cravat) and Lisa Eversman (think Linda Barker at her most deranged), a pair of designers who think anything from teapots and tote bags to toast can be spruced up by daubing a silhouette of a bird on it.
(20) Chicken soup on a drip, someone's mum wiping your mouth with a licked lilac hankie, weekly sessions explaining why Jews don't camp?
Violet
Definition:
(n.) Any plant or flower of the genus Viola, of many species. The violets are generally low, herbaceous plants, and the flowers of many of the species are blue, while others are white or yellow, or of several colors, as the pansy (Viola tricolor).
(n.) The color of a violet, or that part of the spectrum farthest from red. It is the most refrangible part of the spectrum.
(n.) In art, a color produced by a combination of red and blue in equal proportions; a bluish purple color.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of small violet-colored butterflies belonging to Lycaena, or Rusticus, and allied genera.
(n.) Dark blue, inclining to red; bluish purple; having a color produced by red and blue combined.
Example Sentences:
(1) Paraffin sections (8 microns) containing the medial habenular nucleus were stained with cresyl violet and both left and right medial habenular nuclei were measured by planimetry.
(2) Transition of the dye into the carbinol form is in water extremely slow, but is greatly accelerated in the presence of an organic phase, at least for malachite green and brilliant green, but not for crystal violet and pararosaniline.
(3) The spectra were obtained with a variety of excitation wavelengths, spanning the UV, violet, and yellow-green regions of the absorption spectrum, and at temperatures of 30 and 200 K. The RR data indicate that the structures of the bacteriochlorin pigments in RCs from Rb.
(4) Polarization microscopic studies proved that Levafix Red Violet E-2BL is bound to well-oriented fibrous proteins in glia fibers.
(5) Stationary-phase cells of Escherichia coli were enumerated by the pour plate method on Trypticase soy agar containing 0.3% yeast extract (TSYA), violet red-bile agar, and desoxycholate-lactose agar, and by the most-probable-number method in Brilliant Green-bile broth and lauryl sulfate broth.
(6) The persistency of elution over long time after subsequent transfer to fresh water was calculated at 210 nm absorbance with ultra violet spectrometer.
(7) Eliminating the lymphocytes from ultra-violet radiated blood specimens, we observed a decreased effect by this retransfused blood on the whole blood viscosity after 9 radiations to 18%.
(8) After 3 days, marked lesions were noted in SNPR and GP as seen with cresyl violet staining.
(9) For quantitative measurement of Coli and Coliform microorganisms five different culture media were used (Endoagar, Hexachlorophene Endoagar, Desoxycholatcitrat Agar, Violet Red Bile Agar and Brilliant Green Broth).
(10) A complex of diagnostic and therapeutic measures, including the establishment of indications for operative treatment, development of tactics, use of ++physico-technical methods (ultrasound study, rheography, electrocardiography, ++roentgeno-contrast angiography, ultra-violet blood irradiation, electromyostimulation) was developed.
(11) The Infinity towel comes in colours more vibrant than one might expect from an eco-friendly product, including coral, green, blue and violet.
(12) In addition, a number of antiparasitic agents have been shown to exert their actions through a free radical metabolism: nitro compounds used against trypanosomatids, anaerobic protozoa and helminths; crystal violet used in blood banks to prevent blood transmission of Chagas' disease; the antimalarial primaquine, chloroquinine, and quinhasou; and quinones active in vitro and in vivo against different parasites.
(13) Ultra-violet and infra-red rays are inactive on the autonomic retina and on the hypothalamus.
(14) Studies in this country more than 20 years ago implicating ultra-violet light as a factor in the aetiology of malignant melanoma are being ratified by epidemiologic studies in the United States.
(15) One of these receptor pigments is a blue-light receptor with positive action; the other is a violet-red-light receptor which can operate far below the photosynthetic threshold and exerts a negative regulation.
(16) These organisms tolerated concentrations of crystal violet and ethyl violet about 100-fold higher at pH 5.0 than at pH 9.0.
(17) After incubation, the surviving cells were fixed with methanol and stained with crystal violet.
(18) Cellular proliferation on the crystal violet staining.
(19) Mutant W 1421 mostly studied shows the following phenotypic properties not found in the wild-type: (1) The growth is hypersensitive to various antibiotics, detergents and dyes which differ remarkably in their chemical structure and antibacterial action-mechanism, (2) the cells can be easily solubilized by 0;05% Sodium-dodecyl-sulfate, (3) the cells allow the adsorption of the rough-mutant specific Salmonella phage 6SR; (4) strong cellular binding of crystal violet, (5) agglutination of the cells in 0.3% auramin solution and (6) reduced formation of red pigment.
(20) On the other hand, the CRU emails hardly suggest that the scientists are shrinking violets.