(n.) The drink of the gods (as ambrosia was their food); hence, any delicious or inspiring beverage.
(n.) A sweetish secretion of blossoms from which bees make honey.
Example Sentences:
(1) The unusual behavior characterized as "bubbling" was interpreted as either thermoregulation or a nectar concentration.
(2) Gonotrophic-age structure of a population of Aedes provocans (Walker) and nectar sources used by adults were studied for 2 yr at a field site near Belleville, Ontario, Canada.
(3) The EFSA report found the risk to honeybees from drifting pesticide dust was high when fipronil was used as a seed treatment for maize, but did not have the data to assess the risk from its use on sunflowers, or the risk via pollen and nectar, or the risk to other bees and pollinators.
(4) While some worker bees remain at home, others take flight in search of nectar, pollen and other hive essentials.
(5) As one of the gods fled with a pitcher of the nectar across the skies, it spilled on four Indian towns: Allahabad, Nasik, Ujjain and Haridwar.
(6) Twenty-eight exposures were the result of sucking nectar from the flower; the remainder involved ingestion of leaves or flowers.
(7) Salads might feature watermelon, pickled rinds and cashews, while cocktails are little belters: the Del Bac Date ($12), made with Tucson’s malt whisky and local fruit, is purest nectar.
(8) Apparently, these mosquitoes take little or no nectar during the day, and feed soon after the onset of darkness.
(9) The roles require drastically different behaviours, with nurses feeding the larvae and performing royal grooming duties, and foragers navigating great distances and performing complex dance routines to point others in the direction of rich sources of nectar.
(10) This is the first time that ultraviolet absorption in a nectar guide has been interpreted in chemical terms.
(11) alpha-glucosidase activity is elevated in the posterior midgut after feeding in response to the blood meal, whereas activity in the anterior midgut is consistent with a nectar-processing role for this midgut region.
(12) vexans had later peak nectar-feeding times than females.
(13) Levels of DA in the brain of nectar and pollen forager bees, presumed to be among the oldest adults sampled, were found to be significantly higher than in nurses, undertakers or food storers.
(14) Grayanotoxins are known to occur in the honey produced from the nectar of Rhododendron ponticum growing on the mountains of the eastern Black Sea region of Turkey and also in Japan, Nepal, Brazil, and some parts of North America and Europe.
(15) Oilseed rape is likely to be particularly damaging , according to the researchers, because the active compounds of the neonicotinoid pesticides are not just applied to the surface but expressed in the plant’s tissues, meaning that bees can ingest the chemicals in the nectar and pollen of affected crops.
(16) Honeybees, too, employ complex navigational skills to find their way to and from distant sources of nectar and pollen.
(17) During our study, it was observed to feed on only five species of plant and mainly on the nectar-producing parts (flowers and nectaries) of four of these species.
(18) The presence of fructose, as detected by the cold Anthrone test, indicated that both parous and nulliparous flies routinely imbibe nectars as part of their foraging behavior.
(19) A spokesman for Syngenta, which manufactures thiamethoxam, said: “Crop-measured pollen and nectar residues from thiamethoxam seed-treated oilseed rape is typically less than 3ppb.
(20) The distribution and relative frequency of occurrence of gastrointestinal endocrine cells exhibiting immunoreactivity to eleven peptides and one amine were examined immunohistochemically in the gastrointestinal mucosa of the adult honey possum which feeds almost exclusively on nectar and pollen.
Pollen
Definition:
(n.) Fine bran or flour.
(n.) The fecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of flowers. See Flower, and Illust. of Filament.
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude that the priming effect is not a clinically significant phenomenon during natural pollen exposure in allergic rhinitis patients.
(2) The diagnosis of occupational allergy was based on history, skin prick tests and RAST to the pollen.
(3) Using a large clinic population with adequate controls, significant correlation between ragweed, grass or tree pollen sensitivity and the dates of birth was not obtained.
(4) For pollen asthma, six studies conclude that there were superior results with desensitization than to placebo.
(5) They were placed less than 5 m apart, and estimation of the pollen amount was made on a day-to-day basis during the pollen seasons, and on a weekly basis outside the seasons.
(6) The impact of pollen on the respiratory mucosa was modeled by studying the process by which solutes are eluted from pollen grains.
(7) One part fresh pollen grains is uniformly mixed with nine parts of the solution and left at room temperature for at least 5 hr.
(8) We have developed a reverse-type sandwich ELISA for measurement of IgG (+IgA) antibody to a major allergen of Sugi (Japanese cedar) pollens.
(9) The concentration of these pollens decrease in April, completely diminishing in May.
(10) Six atopic subjects with grass pollen allergy and six nonallergic healthy volunteers were enrolled into this study.
(11) Inhalant allergens as mite house dust, animal danders, pollens, molds and food allergens are considered, now, to be the most sensitizing agents.
(12) Most patients showed several positive skin tests to common allergens particular to grass pollen, house dust and mites (Dermatophagoides pteronyssimus).
(13) The pollen sterility (up to 30% of grains) is due to the abortive spore development.
(14) A pollen-specific cDNA clone, Zmc13, has been isolated from a cDNA library constructed to poly(A) RNA from mature maize pollen.
(15) Sixty patients with seasonal allergic rhinitis due to birch pollen were enrolled in an open, randomized parallel group study.
(16) We have studied some aspects of the atopic syndrome in this population of Southern Italy: frequency of allergic sensitization according to endogenous and extrinsic factors (particularly Parietaria officinalis, a characteristic pollen of the Southern Italian Flora), etc.
(17) It was observed that cocksfoot pollen extract is stable but there appears a slight but significant (P less than 0.05) decay in activity when the extract stored for up to 6 months was compared with a freshly prepared extract.
(18) These are collected in her pollen baskets which she takes back to the nest to feed the young after fertilising the flowers.
(19) It was observed, perhaps for the first time, that feeling worse when there is a high pollen count appears to be associated with the symptom pattern seen in winter SAD patients.
(20) In allergologic out-patient departments of Dubrovnik, Split, Sibenik, Zadar, Pula and Rijeka, 300 patients with pollinosis have been tested by the application of the prick method of group allergens of grass, tree and weed pollen, particularly of Parietariae (pellitory) pollen.