(n.) A plant of the genus Anagallis, of which one species (A. arvensis) has small flowers, usually scarlet, but sometimes purple, blue, or white, which speedily close at the approach of bad weather.
Example Sentences:
(1) Even if Clegg's ideas are proving changeable, the party faithful will ensure he remains a yellow rather than a scarlet or blue pimpernel – any decision that affects party independence will have to be agreed by three-quarters of their MPs.
(2) She had secret interviews with Nelson Mandela , then known as the "Black Pimpernel", while he was underground in 1961.
(3) Though Mandela shares little with master spy George Smiley, he earned the nickname "the Black Pimpernel" as he evaded the authorities, Irvin noted.
(4) In the new BBC mockumentary W1A he is known as "his Tonyship, Lord Director General'' and is as elusive as the Scarlet Pimpernel.
(5) Political commentators such as David Marquand have dubbed him the Scarlet Pimpernel.
(6) Straight after the verdict, Mandela went underground, earning himself a reputation as the "black pimpernel" as he stayed one step ahead of the authorities.
(7) An attempt to pin down the Pimpernel by asking him to define his enemies and allies is only partially successful.
(8) Snowden, the most significant whistleblower of modern times, briefly amused London when he turned scarlet pimpernel in the summer; then the capital was intrigued when David Miranda was seized by Heathrow police on bogus "terrorism" charges.
(9) Pimpernel) exhibits a low specificity for the organic moiety of synthetic pyro- and triphosphates.
(10) He was the pimpernel, the odd man out, the great escaper, the prisoner of Rio, the lovable rogue on the run.
Primrose
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the primrose; of the color of a primrose; -- hence, flowery; gay.
(a.) An early flowering plant of the genus Primula (P. vulgaris) closely allied to the cowslip. There are several varieties, as the white-, the red-, the yellow-flowered, etc. Formerly called also primerole, primerolles.
(a.) Any plant of the genus Primula.
Example Sentences:
(1) Spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) were fed a basal regular diet (BD) or three different fat-supplemented diets which contained 10% hydrogenated coconut oil (HCO), 10% safflower oil (SFO), or 10% evening primrose oil (EPO).
(2) The hypocholesterolemic effect of polyunsaturated fatty acids was compared in male rats given high-cholesterol diets containing either evening primrose oil (EPO, linoleic plus gamma-linolenic), safflower oil (SFO, linoleic) or olive oil (OLO, low linoleic) at the 10% level.
(3) Finally, it is concluded that the therapeutic effect of evening primrose oil is unlikely to be mediated through a primarily immunological mechanism.
(4) We lived in Primrose Hill in a house that belonged to the anthropologist Professor Bronisław Malinowski.
(5) * * * On a fine spring day, I left the M1 at junction 14 and followed the broad dual-carriageway of the H5 grid-road into MK between banks of primroses and bright-green hawthorn.
(6) Previous experiments demonstrated the ability-of a gamma-linoleic acid (GLA) dietary supplementation (as evening primrose oil--EPO) to counteract the fall off in delta-6-desaturase (D6D) activity of linoleic acid and alpha-linoleic acid in aged rats.
(7) The rats were then divided into four groups which, for six weeks, were pair-fed diets containing beef tallow (BT), fish oil (FO), a source of n-3 fatty acids, evening primrose oil (EPO), a source of n-6 fatty acids, or a combination of evening primrose oil and fish oil, 75:25 (EPO:FO).
(8) Genic allozyme polymorphism and heterozygosity was studied in a large population of the evening primrose, Oenothera biennis, growing in North Haven, Connecticut.
(9) If poorly deformable RBCs are involved then the use of agents such as evening primrose oil or fish oil to improve RBC deformability could ameliorate the symptoms of PMS.
(10) In general, the release of prostanoids from the mesenteric vasculature was significantly reduced in rats fed a diet in which evening primrose oil was partly or completely replaced by either hydrogenated coconut or fish oil.
(11) Gamma-linolenic acid in the form of a particular variety of evening primrose oil (Epogam) has been reported of value in the treatment of atopic eczema.
(12) Treatment of diabetic rats with evening primrose oil prevented completely the development of the motor nerve conduction velocity deficit without affecting the severity of diabetes.
(13) Spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) were fed diets enriched with evening primrose (EPO), sunflower (SO) and linseed oils (LO) as well as palm kernel fat (PKF), the latter being deficient in polyunsarated fatty acids (PUFA).
(14) Nineteen hypercholesterolemic patients (10 without and 9 with hypertriglyceridemia) were given evening primrose oil rich in gammalinolenic acid (GLA, 18: 3n - 6), in a placebo controlled cross-over design, over 16 weeks (8 + 8 weeks), with safflower oil as the placebo.
(15) For the next three months it will be in the Hayward's project space, presenting work by the Indian builder and sculptor Nek Chand, whose work featured in the first room of Exhibition #1, the museum's inaugural show in Primrose Hill, north London, four years ago.
(16) Good responses are obtained from simple and safe drugs (oil of evening primrose, vitamin B6) with minimal side-effects.
(17) Thirty-five dogs with non-seasonal atopic dermatitis were used in a double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover study of the effects of evening primrose (Oenothera biennis) oil.
(18) Weight gain over 15 weeks was significantly greater in the evening primrose oil-supplemented obese mice than in the other groups.
(19) Nine controlled trials of evening primrose oil were performed in eight centres.
(20) Where it has hopped and run and suckered its way along the verges the blackthorn has formed cages that protect an inner world of primroses.