(n.) An edible fungus (Agaricus campestris), having a white stalk which bears a convex or oven flattish expanded portion called the pileus. This is whitish and silky or somewhat scaly above, and bears on the under side radiating gills which are at first flesh-colored, but gradually become brown. The plant grows in rich pastures and is proverbial for rapidity of growth and shortness of duration. It has a pleasant smell, and is largely used as food. It is also cultivated from spawn.
(n.) Any large fungus, especially one of the genus Agaricus; a toadstool. Several species are edible; but many are very poisonous.
(n.) One who rises suddenly from a low condition in life; an upstart.
(a.) Of or pertaining to mushrooms; as, mushroom catchup.
(a.) Resembling mushrooms in rapidity of growth and shortness of duration; short-lived; ephemerial; as, mushroom cities.
Example Sentences:
(1) Head chef Christopher Gould (a UK Masterchef quarter-finalist) puts his own stamp on traditional Spanish fare with the likes of mushroom-and-truffle croquettes and suckling Málaga goat with couscous.
(2) Her unclothed remains were found six months later by mushroom pickers at Yateley Heath Woods, near Fleet, Hampshire, 25 miles away.
(3) The four distinct neuroblasts proliferating in the early larval and late pupal stages are identical; they lie in the cortex above the calyces of the mushroom bodies (corpora pedunculata), proliferating over a period twice as long as that for the other neuroblasts.
(4) A survey of certified regional poison centers in the United States was performed to determine sources of treatment information for mushroom intoxications, and extent of reporting of mushroom epidemiological data to a national mushroom case registry.
(5) The soluble dry matter content of blanched mushrooms was less than 50% of that of the fresh.
(6) There’s little else on the horizon.” There has been a resurgence of medical interest in LSD and psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, after several recent trials produced encouraging results for conditions ranging from depression in cancer patients to post-traumatic stress disorder.
(7) Back to the Roots , GroCycle and the Espresso Mushroom Company are selling kits for domestic use that they hope can help make food personal again.
(8) In fact, the body of evidence about how much it matters is mushrooming, so that it seems almost absurd to anyone who knows anything about children's development that we still think that a baby's physical health at the birth is all that matters.
(9) Samples of the same species collected at the same location exhibited large differences, although mixed samples rather than individual mushrooms were measured.
(10) That party powerbase has now mushroomed: when a record 11 Front National mayors were elected across France last year, five were in towns in this southern region.
(11) In parallel, Edinburgh's electricity bill has mushroomed, partly due to a steep surge in the use of personal computers.
(12) In rabbits with adjuvant induced pleuritis, the visceral pleura, but not the costal pleura, showed mushroom-like projections on the pleural surface which were composed of a fibrin mass mixed with phagocytotic macrophages and covered by proliferative mesothelial cells.
(13) In my 70-year lifespan there have never been so many mushroom poisonings as there have been so far this year,” he told the Guardian.
(14) Due to the hepatic toxicity of these mushrooms, we have assessed their incidence on alkaline phosphatase levels and on its isoenzymes.
(15) But retweet if you remember destabilizing a region based on falsified claims that everyone in America needed to be afraid of a mushroom cloud, fave if you don’t understand causation.
(16) In the screening of catechol-O-methyltransferase inhibitors, three compounds were isolated from the culture filtrate of a mushroom, Inonotus sp.
(17) Accordingly, immunotherapy of Amanita mushroom poisoning in humans does not appear promising.
(18) The entities mimicking metastases were sarcoidosis, mushroom worker's lung, lymphoma and phaeochromocytoma.
(19) Recently, we found thioproline in various cooked foods, including cod and dried shiitake mushrooms.
(20) These mushrooms were extracted with water to estimate the inhibitor activity.
Tomato
Definition:
(n.) The fruit of a plant of the Nightshade family (Lycopersicum esculentun); also, the plant itself. The fruit, which is called also love apple, is usually of a rounded, flattened form, but often irregular in shape. It is of a bright red or yellow color, and is eaten either cooked or uncooked.
Example Sentences:
(1) Differential screening of a tomato cDNA library produced from pre-anthesis stamens resulted in the isolation of 25 cDNA clones that hybridized to probes made from stamen RNA and showed no hybridization to probes made from RNA of vegetative organs.
(2) Primer extension experiments show that in fission yeast transcripts are initiated at the same starting point as in tomato, indicating for the first time that a plant promoter can be correctly recognized in fission yeast.
(3) Spoon over the dressing and eat immediately, while the tomatoes are still hot and the bread is crisp.
(4) During development of tomato fruit, most DNA-protein interactions in the rbcS promoter regions disappear, coincident with the transcriptional inactivation of the rbcS genes.
(5) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
(6) Isolated nuclei from green leaf tissue of tomato plants infected with potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) were bound to microscope slides, fixed with formaldehyde and hybridized with biotinylated transcripts of cloned PSTVd cDNA.
(7) Tomato lectin-bound material was enriched in a glycoprotein identical with T200, which, when incorporated into liposomes, was a potent inhibitor of effector-target binding.
(8) Lectin binding to LGLs prior to activation was more heterogeneous, however, the tomato lectin uniquely revealed a bimodal distribution of receptors.
(9) Sequences from the 5' upstream regions (-400 to translational start) of some cab genes were determined in this study, and a total of 16 tomato cab gene promoters for which sequences are now available were analyzed.
(10) The smoky density of the mackerel was nicely offset by the pointed black olive tapenade and the fresh, zingy flavours present in little tangles of tomato, shallot, red pepper and spring onion, a layer of pea shoots and red chard, and the generous dressing of grassy olive oil.
(11) Photograph: Jonathan Lovekin for the Observer Nigel Slater's cold noodle and tomato salad makes a nice grownup supper with leftovers for the packed lunch.
(12) 3) In all age groups the foods most ingested were: steamed rice, wakame, tofu, bread, scallions, Japanese omelette, and tomatoes.
(13) Increases were observed in the binding of four lectins to LGLs after IL-2 activation; Triticum vulgaris (wheat germ agglutinin), Phytolacca americana (pokeweed mitogen), Lycopersicon esculentum (tomato lectin), and Griffonia simplicifolia I-B4 (GSI-B4).
(14) Nuts, tomatoes, milk, eggs and cereals were most frequently involved.
(15) The portion of my sample prawn orzo was a modest but polished plate of food, the dense bisque and silky grains of pasta elegantly punctuated by small bursts of tart, sweet semi-dried tomato.
(16) Detectives say when Yeates was in the Tesco Express she had bought a Tesco Finest tomato, mozzarella and basil pesto pizza.
(17) Heartburn was induced by a meal consisting of chili, black coffee, and a spicy tomato drink mix.
(18) A gradual decrease in the number of viable L. monocytogenes cells was observed in juice and sauce held at 21 degrees C. In contrast, the organism died rapidly when suspended in commercial tomato ketchup at 5 and 21 degrees C. Unlike low-acid raw salad vegetables such as lettuce, broccoli, asparagus, and cauliflower on which we have observed L. monocytogenes grow at refrigeration temperatures, tomatoes are not a good growth substrate for the organism.
(19) Six of these mutants no longer produced disease lesions on primary leaves of the susceptible bean cultivar Red Kidney and failed to elicit a hypersensitive response on the resistant bean cultivar Red Mexican and on the nonhost plants tomato, cowpea, and soybean.
(20) By linkage to nine RFLP markers the resistance locus Gro1 was assigned to the potato linkage group IX which is homologous to the tomato linkage group 7.