(n.) A name for several plants with golden yellow blossoms, especially the Calendula officinalis (see Calendula), and the cultivated species of Tagetes.
Example Sentences:
(1) This year, the main beneficiaries appear to be Salmon Fishing in the Yemen , which has three nominations, including for its two leads Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt, and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which scored two, including its lead Judi Dench.
(2) A small screening was held for some female writers, after which Meryl got out the Marigolds in the kitchen of a house in Islington.
(3) Hugh Bonneville, who plays Lord Grantham, recently appeared in the Paddington film and Maggie Smith was in the Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, along with Penelope Wilton .
(4) He brings us his mackerel, and his marigolds, as a child just able to walk solemnly brings objects … a birdcage, or a colander … and deposits them as an offering before the attentive adult."
(5) The most active were oak bark, sage and St. John's wort grass WAG extracts, horse radish root and leaf AG extracts, celandine grass WA extract; bur marigold and yarrow grass WA extracts were active towards S. aureus.
(6) Alpha-terthienyl (alpha-T), a phototoxic thiophene compound isolated from marigolds (Tagetes species), affects cell membranes and does not appear to induce cytogenetic damage.
(7) You're going to have to get your Marigolds on and deal with it yourself until the plumber arrives.
(8) But there are some impressively so-what characterisations too, including Kieran Culkin's clued-up roommate in Scott Pilgrim Vs The World , Tom Wilkinson's retired judge in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and the dumb-jock brother in animated movie Paranorman .
(9) By then Mujica had turned his potty into a tiny marigold garden.
(10) For Purves, westerners enjoy a romanticised view of India, all heady spirituality and Marigold Hotels ; and especially romantic in their views, for reasons Purves neglects to address, are the British.
(11) The powdered flowers of marigold (Tagetes erecta) are used as a cheap source of carotenoids in avicultura.
(12) In addition, fatty acid distributions are given for whole marigold plants, crude carotenoid extracts and purified mono and diesterified luteins obtained from fresh petals as well as from commercial powdered petal preparations.
(13) S. aureus strains isolated from patients were found less sensitive to oak bark, German camomile flower WAG and celandine, bur marigold, and brewing waste WA extracts that the reference strains.
(14) Marigold, the highly tattooed "illustrated mum of the title, is different.
(15) Marigold covers herself in white paint to obscure the tattoos in a wild attempt to be "normal and even Dol realises that she needs help.
(16) And so she does, for it turns out that Marigold is manic depressive.
(17) Both Judi Dench and Maggie Smith have acting nods – the former for The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which also is up for best comedy or musical; the later for her role in Quartet.
(18) The lutein diester was added as a stabilized, microencapsulated extract of marigold (Tagetes erecta) petals.
(19) Dev's still going out with Freida Pinto and has just finished filming with Dames Maggie Smith and Judi Dench for John Madden's The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel .
(20) Decorated with marigolds and ribbons, 108 toilets have been opened in the Indian village where two schoolgirls were found hanging from a tree in May.
Sunflower
Definition:
(n.) Any plant of the genus Helianthus; -- so called probably from the form and color of its flower, which is large disk with yellow rays. The commonly cultivated sunflower is Helianthus annuus, a native of America.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, the animals did not increase their intake of sunflower seeds, a preferred diet for hamsters.
(2) Wistar rats were fed for three generations with a semisynthetic diet containing either 1.5% sunflower oil (940 mg% of C18:2n-6, 6 mg% of C18:3n-3) or 1.9% soya oil (940 mg% of C18:2n-6, 130 mg% of C18:3n-3).
(3) The mass of glycolic acid recovered from sunflower leaf tissue was proportional to the amount of tissue extracted.
(4) Safety evaluations of sunflower protein isolates (SPI) obtained by various processes were performed in subchronic (90-day) feeding studies using male and female rats as experimental animals.
(5) Very high migration values are obtained for sunflower oil, Fettsimulans HB 307 or 50% ethanol.
(6) Percent apparent digestibilities for DM, NDF, and N for corn and corn-sunflower were similar and greater than for sunflower: DM (69.6, 68.2, 57.4); NDF (68.1, 61.5, 51.6); and N (66.3, 66.5, 63.6).
(7) We have isolated and characterized genes encoding the sunflower 11S globulin seed storage proteins, collectively termed helianthinin.
(8) The sunflowers are the brainchild of Kouyuu Abe, a Zen monk who owns a temple just outside Fukushima city and is committed to the "fight against radiation".
(9) In Experiment 1, a wheat-soy diet supplemented with sunflower oil was found to improve significantly (P less than .05) performance characteristics and reduce the mortality attributed to SDS as compared with the same diet supplemented with tallow.
(10) With a long-term (1 and 4 months) introduction of an additional amount of edible fats (beef, hog fats, butter, sunflower seed oil) to intact and intratracheally quartz-dust laden sexually mature male rats an organ-specific reaction to the supply of fat, and in intact rats, also some peculiarities of the reaction depending upon the kind of the introduced fats, were discovered.
(11) The method of mebendazole administration with sunflower oil, elaborated by the authors, serves to this purpose: drug concentration exceeding the minimal effective one was attained in 86% patients treated with mebendazole and sunflower oil and only in 40% patients treated with the drug alone.
(12) The maximum accumulation of fraction 1 was observed in yeast medium with sunflower-seed protein.
(13) Sowing sunflower seeds is like scattering happiness over the soil; it is a gesture in optimism.
(14) Linoleic enriched BAT (of animals born to females kept on a sunflower oil diet) seemed to be in a healthy physiological state at birth, perhaps due to rapid lipid renewal and synthesis in their membranes.
(15) Diets supplemented with high levels of saturated or unsaturated fatty acids supplied by addition of sheep kidney fat or sunflower seed oil, respectively, were fed to rats with or without dietary cholesterol.
(16) In the second experiment the utilization of lysine (relative to free lysine) for weight gain, as measured in weaner pigs, was found to be 0.68, 0.73, 0.81, 0.86 and 1.00 for cottonseed meal 1, cottonseed meal 2, meat meal, sunflower meal and skim milk respectively.
(17) Similarly, in sunflower and rolled oat, the TD values of lysine (81-83) were lower than the TD values of total nitrogen (90-91).
(18) The transport of [3H]norepinephrine into chopped cerebral cortex of neonates was changed by feeding pregnant rats with semisynthetic diets enriched in saturated fat (coconut oil) as compared to polyunsaturated fat (sunflower oil).
(19) The fractional and molar rates of LCAT were higher after sunflower and peanut oil diets and decreased significantly after LEAR oil and milk fat diets.
(20) This would allow more sweetcorn, grapes, sunflowers, soya and maize to be grown in Britain.