(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.
Pepo
Definition:
(n.) Any fleshy fruit with a firm rind, as a pumpkin, melon, or gourd. See Gourd.
Example Sentences:
(1) The aim of this work was to investigate the role of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (ATP:oxaloacetate carboxy-lyase (transphosphorylating) EC 4.1.1.49) in the conversion of fat to sugar by the cotyledons of seedlings of Cucurbita pepo.
(2) A microsomal membrane preparation from hypocotyls of dark-grown Cucurbita pepo L. (zucchini) seedlings contains specific high-affinity binding sites for the non-hydrolyzable GTP analog guanosine 5'-[gamma-thio]triphosphate (GTP-gamma-S).
(3) This is supported by the three-dimensional X-ray structure of zucchini (Cucurbita pepo medullosa; courgette) AAO.
(4) Following in vitro infection with Agrobacterium rhizogenes wild strain (mannopine, 8196) and two A. tumefaciens transconjugant strains (C58C1 pArA4abc and C58C1 pArA4b) transformed (hairy) roots were induced in pumpkin (C. pepo L.) cotyledons.
(5) Capped (m7GpppG) ZYMV RNA transcripts were infectious in 10 of 91 Cucurbita pepo test plants; uncapped RNA transcripts were not infectious.
(6) Seven trypsin inhibitors were isolated from the seeds of Cucurbitaceae plants: two from cucumber (Cucumis sativus) and red bryony (Bryonia diotica) and one from figleaf gourd (Cucurbita ficifolia), spaghetti squash (Cucurbita pepo var.
(7) The influence of N-nitroso-N-methylurea on seedlings of two species of plants--Cucurbita pepo L., Helianthus annuus L.--was investigated.
(8) The use of intergenic spacer (IGS) fragments of plant ribosomal DNA (rDNA) for the differentiation between genera and species is tested by cross-hybridization experiments with different IGS probes of two Cucurbitaceae, Cucurbita pepo (zucchini) and Cucumis sativus (cucumber).
(9) The effect of inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate on Ca2+ release from microsomes isolated from dark-grown zucchini (Cucurbita pepo L.) hypocotyls was studied.
(10) Here we report that GTP also induces rapid release of calcium from a zucchini (Cucurbita pepo L.) hypocotyl microsomal fraction.
(11) The internal transcribed spacer (ITS) 1 and 2, the 5.8S rRNA gene, and adjacent 18S rRNA and 25S rRNA coding regions of two Cucurbitaceae (Cucurbita pepo, zucchini, ITS 1: 187 bp, and ITS 2: 252 bp in length, and Cucumis sativus, cucumber, ITS 1: 229 bp, and ITS 2: 245 bp in length) have been sequenced.
(12) When the fruits of C. pepo were stored the amount of protochlorophyll-like material in the inner seed coats increased and a form of protochlorophyll absorbing at longer wavelength was apparently formed.
(13) Lectins are present in the exudate (presumably from the phloem) of the fruits of three species of the Cucurbitaceae, namely vegetable marrow (Cucurbita pepo), melon (Cucumis melo) and cucumber (Cucumis sativus).
(14) In the end he was pushed into third position by just 0.05%, scoring 74.200 overall, while Finnish rider Katja Karjalainen took silver with a score of 74.250 and Austria's Pepo Puch took gold with 79.150.
(15) Closed and pH-tight membrane vesicles prepared from hypocotyls of 5-day-old dark-grown seedlings of Cucurbita pepo accumulate the plant growth hormone indole-3-acetic acid along an imposed proton gradient (pH low outside, high inside).
(16) The 600 nt at the 5' portion of cucurbit IGS is more conserved in evolution than the remainder, as revealed by comparison of C. maxima and C. pepo IGS restriction maps and by nucleotide sequence comparison of C. maxima and Cucumis sativa IGSs.
(17) Pure ascorbate oxidase (L-ascorbate:oxygen oxidoreductase, EC 1.10.3.3) isolated from Cucurbita pepo medullosa, which is known to be specific for ascorbic acid, shows a secondary catecholoxidase activity at approx.
(18) Besides the delay in growth, also the formation of local overgrowth of cotyledons and hypocotyl of C. pepo, the base of cotyledons of H. annuus and mezocotyl of Z. mays were observed.
(19) Glyoxysomes and peroxisomes have been isolated from dark- and light-grown seedlings of pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) by sucrose-density-gradient centrifugation.
(20) The influence of auramine-00 on seedlings of three species of plants - Cucurbita pepo L., Helianthus annuus L., Zea mays L.-was investigated.