(n.) A plant of the genus Viola (V. tricolor) and its blossom, originally purple and yellow. Cultivated varieties have very large flowers of a great diversity of colors. Called also heart's-ease, love-in-idleness, and many other quaint names.
Example Sentences:
(1) A study was made of the effects of pH and protic and aprotic solvents on the spectral properties of Renilla (sea pansy) luciferin and a number of its analogs.
(2) The system of a related anthozoan coelenterate, the sea pansy Renilla reniformis, however, is oxygen dependent, requiring two organic components, luciferin and luciferase.
(3) The oxidation of luciferin catalyzed by sea pansy luciferase results in the emission of light.
(4) Antho-RFamide (pGlu-Gly-Arg-Phe-amide), a neuropeptide recently isolated from the sea pansy Renilla köllikeri induced sustained (tonic) contractions in the rachis and peduncle of the colony, and in the individual autozooid polyps.
(5) Special kinds of bioluminescent reactions are also of considerable interest, as for instance the relationship between "active sulphate" and PAP, which participate in the formation of light in the sea pansy (Renilla reniformis).
(6) This peptide is a neuropeptide and constitutes a peptide family together with less than Glu-Leu-Leu-Gly-Gly-Arg-Phe-NH2 (Pol-RFamide I), the first neuropeptide isolated from Polyorchis, and less than Glu-Gly-Arg-Phe-NH2 (Antho-RFamide), a neuropeptide isolated from sea anemones and sea pansies.
(7) Initially, Warren lived with his mother and her new partner, but his stepfather never hid his hatred, calling him "a pansy" because he wore glasses and played the piano, and his mother didn't intervene to protect her son.
(8) This product is structurally identical among the different classes of coelenterates: Hydrozoa (the jellyfish, Aequorea), Anthozoa (the sea cactus, Cavernularia; sea pansy, Renilla; and sea pen, Leioptilus), and very likely also the Scyphozoa (the jellyfish, Pelagia).
(9) But someone who lives or works here has put a couple of drooping geraniums on a first-floor windowsill, a touchingly modest, personal attempt at home-making, more human in scale than all the tulips, hyacinths and pansies planted in vast quantities in the gardens along the road, which have been landscaped into luxury-hotel-style anonymity.
(10) George Eighmey, of Compassion and Choice, the body that originally fought for the law and now helps people towards decisions in dying, told me of a woman who had had a double mastectomy and made a display of her three or four dozen bras on a clothesline, and of a man who had had bladder trouble who filled a row of potties with petunias and pansies - all part of trying to make illness and even death more homely, more bearable.
(11) The pansies were in their beds, the roses on their trellis.
(12) Rachel Lauberts, one of the Boston Greenscapers, said they had just reworked the riverside and planted their winter pansies for the Britain in Bloom competition.
(13) A fine structure study of the anthocodium of the sea pansy, Renilla mülleri, was undertaken.
(14) On a dull March afternoon, a riot of municipal planting is in flower: forsythia, fuchsia, daffodils, croci, and pansies.
(15) I have never known anyone,” Crankshaw declared, “who flaunted his homosexuality so openly,” and he noted that Burgess’s live-in boyfriend, “a young factory mechanic who plays the concertina beautifully”, was “intelligent, unsqualid, and pleasant in a pansy sort of way”.
Spineless
Definition:
(a.) Having no spine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
(2) It makes the ICC look spineless and toothless.” Ultimately, Libya’s state today is about more than one man, and many feel that the western governments who were eager to get Gaddafi out failed to help Libya stabilise after his death.
(3) The TSP for ssa-40a overlapped the TSP for homoeotic transformation of aristae into tarsi but did not overlap the TSP for spineless effects.
(4) What's certain, though, is that nothing could have been worse than keeping the spineless Ayrault at his side after last weekend's drubbing at the local elections and the loss of 175 municipalities.
(5) But a blend of opportunism on the right that flagrantly mischaracterises the issue, and spinelessness on the left that refuses to address it.
(6) I want to tell them how spineless they have been,” said junior doctor Mukhtar Ahmed.
(7) We find the government response to this issue is weak, lazy and bordering on spineless.
(8) They don't have the strength of character … Instead they show submissiveness, spinelessness, lack of punctuality, and many other factors which prevent them from becoming political activists."
(9) The second is the spineless hypocrisy of western governments, not least our own, who take their oil, and hope for their money.
(10) The Senate minority leader, Harry Reid, said that the majority leader, Mitch McConnell, who stopped short of branding Trump’s remarks as racist, was “the poster boy for Republicans’ spinelessness to allow Donald Trump to be the nominee”.
(11) The tail is spineless and provided with dorsolateral folds.
(12) Speaking at the University College London occupation this morning, Porter said: " For too long the NUS has perhaps been too cautious and too spineless about being committed to supporting student activism.
(13) Threatened with a no-confidence vote, the NUS president, Aaron Porter, recently apologised for the union's "spineless" caution toward student activism and promised more support.
(14) This is well behind the old rates, but steep enough to send the more spineless Tories running for the hills.
(15) NUS president Aaron Porter apologised today for his "spineless" lack of public support for university occupations around the country.
(16) He was also scathing about the United Russia party – from which he resigned in disgust last week – calling it a spineless servant of the Kremlin run by feeble idiots.
(17) Fitnesses were obtained for the male segregants of the two "complex loci," spineless-spineless aristapedia and radius incompletus-inturned.
(18) S. bovis was previously described as possessing spineless tubercles.
(19) He condemned Bellfield, who refused to give evidence or appear in the dock for sentence, as "spineless and gutless" for hiding behind his defence QC and challenging the testimony of every witness.
(20) The original scant covering of spineless, truncated microtriches was supplemented by a population of microvilli covering the entire surface of protoscoleces in the early stages of formation.