(n.) An organ in certain fungi and lichens, surrounding and enveloping the masses of fructification.
Example Sentences:
(1) The surface and cavity of the perithecium of Ceratocystic stenoceras were studied with a scanning electron microscope.
(2) One segment encodes a perithecium maturation function that is dependent on the second segment for phenotypic expression.
(3) Any individual perithecium contained ascospores of only one extranuclear genotype.
(4) This polypeptide appears to be responsible for vegetative incompatibility, mating identity, and perithecium induction.
(5) The four viable (SkK) and four aborted (SkS) ascospores of each ascus are ejected from the perithecium as a physically disordered group.
(6) Physical wounding of the colony carried out shortly before or during the time perithecia were developing around the plate edge stimulated perithecium development in the wound area.
(7) The trenches were made at several different positions between the plate center and edge using cultures of several different ages, and the resultant distribution of perithecia along the trench edges suggested that the colony center and periphery produce diffusible inhibitors of perithecium development.
(8) These inhibitors may be responsible, in part, for the observed pattern of perithecium development in the colony.
Ripe
Definition:
(n.) The bank of a river.
(superl.) Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature; -- said of fruits, seeds, etc.; as, ripe grain.
(superl.) Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow; as, ripe cheese; ripe wine.
(superl.) Having attained its full development; mature; perfected; consummate.
(superl.) Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge; -- said of sores, tumors, etc.
(superl.) Ready for action or effect; prepared.
(superl.) Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
(superl.) Intoxicated.
(v. i.) To ripen; to grow ripe.
(v. t.) To mature; to ripen.
Example Sentences:
(1) 1200 examinations of sonographical demonstrable placental ripeness were done in 552 pregnant women.
(2) I found their remarks a little ripe, if mostly well argued, although Nicholson's characterisation of the characters' default mindset as "Brown people bad, American people good" rather misses the obvious retort: "They wanna kill me, I wanna live."
(3) President Hassan Rouhani , who is visiting New York to speak at the UN general assembly next week, said at a meeting with journalists and media executives on Friday that “conditions were ripe” for his administration to start implementing the agreement, struck in Vienna in July, by the end of the year.
(4) The amount of banana starch not hydrolyzed and absorbed from the human small intestine and therefore passing into the colon may be up to 8 times more than the NSP present in this food and depends on the state of ripeness when the fruit is eaten.
(5) 75 Patients were treated with Prostaglandin-F2 alpha-gel intracervical to ripe the cervix prior to first trimester abortion.
(6) These demographic realities define a policy issue ripe for study.
(7) Her main project is new girl Tai (the late Brittany Murphy) who arrives at school as a clumsy, unconfident "ugly duckling" ripe for making over – allowing the film to indulge in that wonderful 80s teen movie trope: the dressing up montage.
(8) It’s when we have untrusted heads of these old institutions that everything seems ripe for revolution – if someone has the guts and ingenuity to really go for it.
(9) I gaze at it across the street and, as if by magic, I ache with longing, just as I used to in the days when a trip here was the most enjoyable thing I could possibly imagine: when books were all I wanted, when I thought of them as pieces of ripe fruit, waiting to be peeled and devoured.
(10) Some on the left who want Brexit say that the time is not yet ripe.
(11) We think that, after a rather premature condemnation, the time is ripe for a reevaluation and a reevaluation of the ureterosigmoidostomy.
(12) The oogonia pass through seven maturation stages to form the ripe ova.
(13) Total lipid constituted 15% of the dry wt of ripe eggs, 70% of the total lipid being polar lipid with phosphatidylcholine (PC) accounting for almost 90% of the polar lipid.
(14) A child growing up in America witnesses 16,000 murders and 200,000 acts of violence by the time he or she reaches the ripe old age of 18.
(15) Lamicel produced a cervical dilatation and ripeness equal to the syntetic tent without MgSO4.
(16) "The issue is ripe in our country, given the experiences that we know of elsewhere," he added.
(17) There's only so much traipsing sodden hills one person can do; once your Pringles supply from the nearest point of civilisation has been depleted, and anyone with bones ripe for jumping carries the risk of a shared grandparent, it's a wonder more people don't while away the long nights with a spot of leisurely murder.
(18) I think the time is ripe to push these issues into London councils and the London Assembly .
(19) Music in hospitals, he argues, is an area ripe for further exploration.
(20) The relationship between disability in activities of daily living and age-related impairment of physical performance is especially ripe for study.