(n.) A genus of American and Asiatic trees, with aromatic bark and large sweet-scented whitish or reddish flowers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The experimental result of the quantitative determination of magnolol in Cortex Magnoliae Officinalis and its processed samples by HPLC has shown that the stir-fried sample has the highest content of magnolol among all sample and so does the ginger-fried sample among all ginger-processed samples.
(2) These data not only validate the earlier report of sequence data for a Magnolia species from the same site but also suggest that it may be possible to isolate and sequence DNAs routinely from the Clarkia deposit.
(3) Comparisons of the main characteristics of the plants, Tu-hou-po and Hou-po crude drugs and chemical components showed that Manglietia is taxonomically the closest to Magnolia and contained similar components (tab 1-2 and fig 1).
(4) The extracts of the flower buds of Magnolia salicifolia showed remarkable anti-allergy effects in passive cutaneous anaphylaxis (PCA) test.
(5) Variations with regard to salt tolerance were observed in rice varieties, Blue bonnet, IR-8, Jhona-349, and Magnolia.
(6) Two summer-flowering South American magnolia trees attested to the city’s colonial past.
(7) Several ethanol extracts such as Glycyrrhiza uralensis, Magnolia officinalis and Zingiber officinale etc., were found having stronger antioxidative effect.
(8) The drama bounces from Texas to Mississippi on the cusp of the civil war, effects a shotgun wedding of 60s spaghetti western with 70s "slavesploitation" and douses the magnolia in arterial blood.
(9) Charged £2,339 in September 2005 for supply and fitting of "magnolia cavalier cavalace velvet wool carpet with cloud and cumulus underlay".
(10) The molecular mechanism of honokiol, extracted from the bark of Magnolia obovata, was studied using bovine adrenal chromaffin cells as a model system.
(11) (+)-R-Coclaurine (Coc) and (+)-S-reticuline (Ret) are compounds contained in the dried buds of Magnolia salicifolia MAXIM.
(12) The types of flowering branch of Magnolia denudata under high yield conditions were investigated.
(13) Movies like Steel Magnolias or Waiting to Exhale or the all-female The Women wouldn’t have precisely these problems – but it’s still hard to imagine them with a male cast.
(14) Panax notogenseng and Magnolia officinalis were discovered to be sensitive, Prunus mume and Corydalis yanhusuo were moderate sensitive, and Coptis chinensis and Rheum palmatum highly sensitive to HP.
(15) Recently, the age of DNA that can be recovered and sequenced was increased manyfold by the amplification and sequencing of a DNA fragment from a Magnolia fossil obtained from the Miocene Clarkia deposit (17-20 million yr old).
(16) It’s hard to overstate how absurdly beautiful it is: the rhododendron trees are in full bloom, huge creamy magnolia blossoms hang alongside the path and wisps of cloud cling to the peaks.
(17) A compound in the N fraction was identified with authentic magnolol, a major component in Magnolia officinalis.
(18) "I asked her to plant three types of magnolia, and they have started putting them in the centre of the city.
(19) Magnolol is an antiplatelet agent isolated from Chinese herb Magnolia officinalis.
(20) It has a free parking lot reserved for customers from 6pm-6am one block west at Lawrence & Magnolia Street.
Mauve
Definition:
(n.) A color of a delicate purple, violet, or lilac.
Example Sentences:
(1) The range includes products such as lip gloss (in claret red, precious gold and velvet mauve), bath crystals and body lotions.
(2) I pull out a grape-flavoured one in bright mauve and eye Clapper’s Advanced Vaping System enviously.
(3) I feel a little bit cool until an elderly woman on a mobility scooter laughs in my face, reminding me I’m a 40-year-old man sucking on a sparkly mauve pretend cigarette.
(4) We can help by looking for this blue-with-a-hint-of-mauve butterfly (the female is more brown than blue and harder to identify) during the last weekend of Butterfly Conservation’s Big Butterfly Count .
(5) Baghdadi wonders whether to start wearing a big turban, maybe mauve or even pistachio with a silver pin.
(6) Gili said this was mostly surprising because the mauve stingers were close to beaches.
(7) It wasn't long ago we were watching Milan Jovanavic and Paul Konchesky..." 5.01pm GMT "Jacob isn't it nice to see a referee in a nice sensible old-school black strip, instead of dressing up like an attention-getting circus clown in mauve or a wretched shade of yellow?"
(8) There was an Iranian woman in a wheelchair, she was about 80, wearing a little mauve cardigan, and they were yelling at her – “Arabic?
(9) The institute has detected a surge this spring in one of the most poisonous species, the mauve stinger or Pelagia noctiluca , along the coast of Catalonia and Valencia.
(10) Galbraith drew attention to the paradox of private affluence amid public squalor, citing the family that takes its mauve and cerise, air-conditioned, power-steered and power-braked car out for a drive, passes through cities that are badly paved and made hideous by litter and blighted buildings, and then picnics on exquisitely packaged food by a polluted stream.
(11) Her make-up tends to the mauve but otherwise she is all in black and white, in contrast to her life.
(12) His eyes were level with the mauve bougainvillea draped over the countertop.
(13) I was preemptively disappointed, setting out on the tandem for the mauve shadow of the hills, to know that I would in all likelihood see no newborn calves, that our adventure would have a different character to the adventure undertaken by my brother and my father.
(14) In The Spell, Alex – who has "contracted the occasional ailment of the late developer, an aversion to his own past" – recalls his horror of the country town in which he'd grown up, with its "old outfitters selling brown and mauve clothes [and] photos of fetes and beauty contests and British Legion dinners in the window of the newspaper office, which might almost have been the window of a museum".
(15) Think how good that shows our Lord to be, because what if the trees had been mauve, or electric blue?
(16) So many greys: opalescent, dove, lead, battleship, cadet, charcoal, glaucous, that greyish mauve called Mountbatten pink, medium grey, dark medium grey, Gainsborough grey, and more besides.
(17) The children's bedrooms feature retro movie posters and plain mauve bedspreads, and the grinning, tousle-haired kids are pictured playing with bespoke wooden train sets that their fathers have carved out of an oak branch taken from the back garden.
(18) 5-Hydroxyhaemopyrrole lactam, the 'mauve factor' reported in the urine of schizophrenics and porphyrics was found to inhibit electrically-stimulated contractions of guinea-pig ileum only at high concentrations (ID50 = 8.5 mM).
(19) While attempting synthesis, the young chemist, William H. Perkin, stumbled on mauve purple, the first aniline dye.