What's the difference between mimosa and tropical?

Mimosa


Definition:

  • (n.) A genus of leguminous plants, containing many species, and including the sensitive plants (Mimosa sensitiva, and M. pudica).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An alkaloidal fraction was obtained from Mimosa tenuiflora (Willd.)
  • (2) We have described respiratory allergy to the pollens of mimosa (Acacia floribunda) in some Mediterranean areas of Italy and France.
  • (3) The squad Goalkeepers Copa Barry (Lokeren), Gbohouo Sylvain (Sewe Sport), Sayouba Mandé (Stabaek), Badra Ali (ASEC Mimosas).
  • (4) are located in the arm of the Zaire River flowing between Mimosa Island and the Zairian bank.
  • (5) After stimulation of a Mimosa plant, water in the lower half of the main pulvinus disappeared, the water previously contained in this area seeming to be transferred to the upper half of the main pulvinus.
  • (6) No bacteria were obtained from the hard, waxy seeds of mimosa or yellowwood.
  • (7) In vitro bioassay of (a) aqueous methanol extracts (AME) of the green leaves of mimosa (Mimosa pudica), love weed (Cuscuta americana), vervine (Stachytarpheta jamaicensis), chicken weed (Salvia serotina) and breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis); (b) methanol-water fraction (MWF) of breadfruit leaves, and (c) commercially available drugs albendazole, thiabendazole and levamisole were assayed for nematode inactivating potential, using filariform larvae of Strongyloides stercoralis.
  • (8) It50 (time for inactivation of 50% of larvae) values read: levamisole and mimosa extract less than 1 hour; love weed extract, approximately 2 hours; breadfruit (MWF), 9.5 hours; chicken weed, 20 hours; albendazole, 35 hours; breadfruit (AME), 49 hours; thiabendazole, 74 hours and vervine extract, 81.5 hours.
  • (9) The cicatricial and antibacterial effects of the sterile powder of the barks of tepescohuite (Mimosa tenuiflora), 2% mupirocin ointment, and 0.9% saline were compared.
  • (10) After mimosa and quebracho extracts, chestnut extract is the third most important vegetable tannin used for leather production.
  • (11) Willardiine [(S)-1-(2-amino-2-carboxyethyl)pyrimidine-2,4-dione] is a naturally occurring heterocyclic excitatory amino acid present in the seeds of Acacia and Mimosa.
  • (12) Total RNA and DNA of mimosa epicotyl tissues were extracted and the RNA fractionated into specific soluble RNAs (sRNAs) at different times during late germination.
  • (13) I wandered into the exquisite 16th-century Yuyuan Gardens, and walked its serpentine paths, through tunnels of jasmine, mimosa and magnolia – the city's flower – and past lakes churning with carp.
  • (14) Yaya Touré has three with Olympiacos, Barcelona and Manchester City – the midfielder was with ASEC Mimosas in Ivory Coast when they won the title in 2001 but he was only a youth player at the time so the title does not count.
  • (15) The morphological structure (pulvinus P1, P2 and P3) directly involved in the seismonastic movements of the Mimosa pudica leaf have been used to isolate: 1) "soluble" ATPase, loosely bound to pulvinus structures; 2) Ca, Mg-dependent ATPase, which is tightly bound to pulvinus structures and is extracted by a saline solution of high ionic strength, used to isolate actomyosin from muscles and non-muscle motile cells; 3) ATPase bound to the pulvinus membrane structures, which is solubilized by the detergents, e. g. Triton X-100 and Tween-80, and is similar to membrane ATPase.
  • (16) The predominant pollen in the Philippines is the grass pollen, followed by Mimosa, Moraceae, Cyperaceae, lower vascular plants spores, Amaranth, Coconut, Tiliaceae, Pinus, Compositae and Alnus (in decreasing order of significance).
  • (17) I'm totally converted June 8, 2014 2.13am BST Rangers 4-2 Kings, end of 2nd period That will do it for these two teams - they head to the lobby for some M&M's and mimosas.
  • (18) The role of ATPases in seismonastic movements of the Mimosa pudica leaf is discussed.
  • (19) Two new methoxychalcones, kukulkanins A (2',4'-dihydroxy-3',4-dimethoxychalcone) and B (2',4',4-trihydroxy-3'-methoxychalcone), were isolated by flash chromatography of extracts of small branches of Mimosa tenuefolia.
  • (20) The molecular weight of purified Ca,Mg-ATPase from Mimosa pudica pulvinus is found to be 139 000.

Tropical


Definition:

  • (n.) Of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics; as, tropical climate; tropical latitudes; tropical heat; tropical diseases.
  • (n.) Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
  • (2) Positive results were rather less common in black patients born in the tropics attending a genitourinary medicine in London and were similar to findings in blood donors in the West Indies.
  • (3) The experience of reflexotherapy of 86 patients showed its positive effect on the psychoemotional activities of patients with obesity, a rise of adaptation capabilities of the body under physical exercise, improved external respiration function, an increase in oxygen saturation of tissues, the stimulation of metabolism (by the basal metabolism findings) by way of increasing the secretion of hypophyseal tropic hormones, triiodothyronine and thyroxin, and potentiation of the time course of loss of body mass.
  • (4) In addition, youthful onset of tropical diabetic syndrome (J-type diabetes) is extremely rare.
  • (5) Fv-1-specific host-range pseudotypes of murine sarcoma virus (MuSV) were developed by rescue from nonproducer cells with N- or B-tropic leukemia viruses.
  • (6) Assessment of nutritional status of vitamin B components by plasma or blood levels indicated riboflavin deficiency and possibly thiamine deficiency in Nigerian patients who suffered from tropical ataxic neuropathy and neurologically normal Nigerians who subsisted on predominant cassava diet.
  • (7) 1816) for the term "loa," designating a species of filaria, pathogenic in humans, which is common tropical West Africa.
  • (8) In order to reduce the devasting effects of enteric diseases among children born to mothers in tropical countries of Africa and Asia, it is imperative that all health workers understand the cultural and social perceptions of their clients towards the disease in question.
  • (9) The spread of chloroquine resistant strains of P. falciparum requires new approaches to treatment especially in tropical Africa.
  • (10) Schistosoma mansoni is often perceived by governments and international aid agencies to present a major public health problem in the tropical and sub-tropical world.
  • (11) The subject of this study was to test whether in vivo thymocytes in the preleukemic and leukemic periods also bear receptors specific for N-tropic, recombinant MCF and SL AKR retroviruses.
  • (12) Spices are widely used for flavouring food and are mostly grown in the tropics.
  • (13) The aetiology of tropical sprue, which is common in Puerto Rico and absent from Jamaica remains to be explained although a hypothesis has been put forward.
  • (14) A series of studies were carried out to assess the usefulness and accuracy of measuring blood sugar levels in a tropical medical practice using an enzyme test strip ("Dextrostix").
  • (15) The relative resistance to different cattle ticks of Gudali and Wakwa cattle with different levels of Brahman breeding, grazed on natural pastures in the subhumid tropics of Wakwa, Cameroon, was assessed using pasture tick infestations.
  • (16) Ninety-five patients (88.8%) had the amblyopia syndrome mainly; twelve patients (11.2%) had amblyopia and other manifestations of the tropical ataxic neuropathy.
  • (17) The emissions reductions that could be expected through meeting these family planning needs would be roughly equivalent to the reductions that would come from ending all tropical deforestation.
  • (18) The rapid insensible loss of water in tropical areas was reflected in the rise in serum urea while homeostatic mechanisms maintained a slower fall in sodium and chloride by renal conservation.
  • (19) In the latter, only the commensal rodents constitute a major problem, whereas in rural tropical areas, native semidomestic species also serve as disease reservoirs and sources of infection to man.
  • (20) Maximum power output for the fast muscle fibres from the Antarctic species at -1 degree C is around 60% of that of the tropical fish at 20 degrees C. Evolutionary temperature compensation of muscle power output appears largely to involve differences in the ability of cross bridges to generate force.

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