(n.) The juicy fruit of certain cucurbitaceous plants, as the muskmelon, watermelon, and citron melon; also, the plant that produces the fruit.
(n.) A large, ornamental, marine, univalve shell of the genus Melo.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gastric antral vascular ectasia ('water melon stomach') is a poorly documented cause of occult upper gastrointestinal blood loss.
(2) Female undergraduates (N = 50 and N = 46 in the two studies) were given cards containing the names of randomly-selected generic foods (e.g., cakes, melons) and were asked to "group the foods according to how you think about them when it comes to eating them".
(3) It is called falling off the swing,” said Soames, when he tried to explain all this to me, “and getting hit on the back of the head by the roundabout.” There are times, when considering Serco, that it begins to resemble Milo Minderbinder’s syndicate, M&M Enterprises, in the novel Catch-22, which starts out trading melons and sardines between opposing armies in the second world war, and ends up conducting bombing raids for commercial reasons.
(4) The staples of the poor consisted of one or two bulky carbohydrate meals (derivatives of different species of cocoyam, cassava, yam and maize) eaten with vegetable soup in palm oil, melon seeds, snail, occasional meat and fish.
(5) Under scanning electron microscopy, O. viverrini eggs looked like musk-melon skin; they had prominent shoulders and long knobs.
(6) The distinctive medium chain neutral lipids in the jaw and melon fats of this whale may be related to the postulated acoustical role of these tissues in echolocation.
(7) Alternatively, the Rudd government's radical, sudden, forced resettlement of vulnerable people has made me so angry I shall additionally preference the Australian Magical Moonbeam party, The Coalition for People Who Look Like Cats or the Australians For Putting Melons in Their Pants party – if their refugee policies are at all critical of Labor's own.
(8) While the chicken is roasting, halve the charentais melon and discard the seeds, then remove the flesh from the skin with a sharp knife and slice into thick, juicy pieces, putting them and any juice into a large mixing bowl.
(9) The heterologous in vivo translation system of Xenopus laevis oocytes was used to translate messenger RNA isolated from water-melon cotyledons.
(10) Two levels (50 and 200 kcal) of three preloads (tomato soup, melon, cheese on crackers) were given just before two different second courses (macaroni and beef casserole, grilled cheese sandwiches), allowing us to examine the effects of caloric level, energy density, and sensory-specific satiety on food intake in normal weight, non-dieting males.
(11) The fermented product (ogiri) was prepared with Aspergillus flavus-contaminated melon seeds.
(12) When the Guardian visited the melon fields, she waited elsewhere in case she was seen by company guards.
(13) Warm roast chicken salad with melon Warm roast chicken salad with melon.
(14) A proteinase from the sarcocarp of melon (Cucumis Melo L. var.
(15) Under Pinter's direction, Bates brilliantly brought out Butley's blend of rancorous wit and emotional immaturity; and it was to be the start of a long and fruitful assocation with Gray that included the lead roles in Otherwise Engaged (1975), for which Bates won an Evening Standard Best Actor award, Stage Struck (1979) and Melon (1987).
(16) In every grocery store, Kumamon smiles from every punnet of strawberries and honeydew melon wrapper.
(17) The fruit and seeds of the bitter melon (Momordica charantia) have been reported to have anti-leukemic and antiviral activities.
(18) "Royal Gala remains our most popular variety, and that's a very sweet one, but there are lots of new varieties that are becoming more and more popular: Jazz, which has a peardroppy flavour, and Rubens which has tones of melon, and Zari, which is a sweet, juicy apple."
(19) Melon condiment was the least preferred among the four products.
(20) Concentration of melon volatiles by steam distillation yielded a product identical to that obtained by hydrolysis of profenofos, identified as 4-bromo-2-chlorophenol.
Melton
Definition:
(n.) A kind of stout woolen cloth with unfinished face and without raised nap. A commoner variety has a cotton warp.
Example Sentences:
(1) They were arrested at their homes in Stafford, Telford and Melton Mowbray, respectively, and taken to local police stations where they were questioned by SFO investigators.
(2) Lomas, from Eye Kettleby, near Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, raised more than £86,000 for Spinal Research, a charity which funds medical research around the world to develop reliable treatments for paralysis caused by a broken back or neck.
(3) A 340-nucleotide sequence has been identified in Vg1 RNA that directs its vegetal localization [Mowry, K. L. & Melton, D. A.
(4) While Melton Mowbray pork pies and stilton cheese alone provide an estimated £65m boost to sales and tourism in the Melton area.
(5) This novel cytokine, the vgr (vegetal related), is homologous to the vegetal (Vg1) gene of Xenopus (DL Weeks and DA Melton, Cell, 51:861-867, 1987).
(6) "It is a relief to know that we can now collaborate openly and freely with other scientists in our own university and elsewhere, without restrictions on what equipment, data, or ideas can be shared," Melton said in a statement.
(7) Michael Barrymore came out, on stage, there in 1995 – I was a child in Melton Mowbray and can still remember my mum gasping at the telly!
(8) Harvard stem cell institute co-director Doug Melton will apply for federal grants to research ways to turn stem cells into heart cells, pancreatic cells to treat diabetes, and neurons that could someday yield a cure for Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.
(9) Building societies including Skipton, Melton Mowbray and Cambridge all offer 95% mortgages, with rates generally falling between 5.5% and 6%.
(10) People walking with food shopping in Atlanta Photograph: Audra Melton But over the past half century, most of Vine City's minimarkets have scaled back or shuttered completely.
(11) A large general practice serving the entire population of Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, UK.
(12) We wished to determine whether there is any specific sequence downstream of the start point of the SP6 promoter which is required for its function in the plasmid pSP64 (Melton et al., 1984).
(13) Meanwhile, the Melton building society has an advance payment three-year discounted rate of 4.89%, up to 75% loan-to-value.
(14) The health and social status was assessed by interview for all people aged 75 years and over, living in and around Melton Mowbray.
(15) A cross sectional, prevalence survey of eye disease in the population over 75 years old of Melton Mowbray has been used to examine the accuracy and completeness of the Blind and Partially Sighted Registers.
(16) So, a big day for England – it'll be our first chance to enjoy the card-waving charms of our very own Howard Melton Webb.
(17) Leicester’s Claudio Ranieri proves nice guys do not always come second Read more The Leicester players celebrated the greatest night of their footballing lives at Jamie Vardy’s house, in Melton Mowbray, where they gathered to watch the Spurs match .
(18) The methods of Hedlund and Gallagher, Melton et al., and Davies et al.
(19) The use of serum fructosamine in diabetes detection was investigated during a diabetes survey performed with a modified oral glucose tolerance test (MOGTT) on 742 residents of the Melton Mowbray area aged between 65 and 85 years.
(20) (Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire) Barrie Thomas Rutter.