(n.) Any species of very large snakes of the genus Python, and allied genera, of the family Pythonidae. They are nearly allied to the boas. Called also rock snake.
(n.) A diviner by spirits.
Example Sentences:
(1) The film was shot in Monastir, Tunisia, for $4m, with financing from George Harrison's HandMade Films company, and each of the Pythons plays at least three roles.
(2) Water snakes (Natrix natrix), rat snakes (Ptyas korros), cobras (Naja naja), pythons (Python molurus), tortoises (Kachuga sp.
(3) One is left with the impression that most of the group's members were, at various times, ready to put their Python days behind them.
(4) This classification renders it likely that the absence of a lateral focus of termination as well as the absence of a rubrospinal tract in the Python, is correlated to the absence of limbs.
(5) It was on the set of The Frost Report that production staff began to refer to Barker and Corbett as "the two Ronnies", while the writing team included Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, and Eric Idle – every Monty Python member bar Terry Gilliam – as well as Marty Feldman and lead writer Antony Jay, who went on to create Yes, Minister.
(6) Based on Terry Deary’s children’s publishing franchise, its Python-esque sketches won its numerous Bafta awards and a devoted fanbase among adults as well as younger viewers.
(7) The film was backed by an ingenious advertising campaign in which each Python recruited either a relative or friend (Gilliam's mum, Michael Palin's dentist) to present their own radio spot.
(8) Her most memorable film role to date has been dancing with a python in a state of undress in the vampire movie From Dusk Till Dawn.
(9) The crisis in the Socialist Workers party appears to confirm every one of the worst comic clichés about all that lies left of Jon Cruddas , as if the party's central committee were specifically aiming at eliciting unfunny Python comparisons.
(10) Natasha Orekhova, 26, a public relations specialist with a real estate firm, stood next to a friend who carried a fork with a pretend snake spiked on its tines, a reference to Putin calling the protesters Bandar-logs, the monkeys hypnotised by a python in Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book.
(11) Despite offers, the Pythons are not taking the show on the road, but Palin has announced his own solo tour in September.
(12) The activated partial thromboplastin time was shorter than was that of human plasma, thus implying the presence of prothrombin in python plasma; however, this protein could be demonstrated only in trace amounts.
(13) While he was looking, I got a call from John Howard Davies, who was directing the first five episodes of this BBC series called Monty Python's Flying Circus , and he cast me in four of them.
(14) The Pythons never stopped admiring their own cleverness long enough to create a single real, flawed character.
(15) Then just as I think I've shaken off the old ball and chain, Python came knocking again.
(16) Idle received notes of encouragement and constructive criticism of the script from the Pythons, but for the most part they have been operating on the assumption that this is Idle's project, for better or worse.
(17) Both harangued Brian from the outset calling it "a squalid little film" and "tenth rate"; no amount of measured argument on the Pythons part would dissuade the pious double act of their firmly held belief that Life of Brian mocked Christ.
(18) Michael Palin has said that a lot of Monty Python's material was "crap", in an interview with the Telegraph .
(19) One of Williams’ final films will be Absolutely Anything, a zany sci-fi comedy starring the Monty Python team alongside Simon Pegg, with Williams voicing a dog.
(20) He also produced this effect in some of his sculptures, for example Untitled (Funerary Box for a Lime Green Python) (1954), where a pair of solemn-looking palm leaves gives the work a consciously ritualistic tone.
Reticulated
Definition:
(a.) Resembling network; having the form or appearance of a net; netted; as, a reticulated structure.
(a.) Having veins, fibers, or lines crossing like the threads or fibers of a network; as, a reticulate leaf; a reticulated surface; a reticulated wing of an insect.
Example Sentences:
(1) This situation highlights the potential importance of molecules with different inheritance patterns in elucidating complex cases of reticulate evolution.
(2) Reticulate acropigmentation of Kitamura in a mother and her daughter is reported.
(3) Dermatopathia pigmentosa reticularis is a rare heritable disorder consisting of a triad of cutaneous findings including reticulate hyperpigmentation, noncicatricial alopecia, and onychodystrophy.
(4) MRI delineated discrete lesions, typical of cavernous angiomas, with a mixed hyperintense, reticulated, central core surrounded by a hypointense rim.
(5) Finally we noted that the complete photoozonolytic degradation of the (iso)desmosines present in a semi purified reticulated elastolytic fraction resulted in a shift of the size distribution of these peptides toward lower values.
(6) Collagen reticulation was studied as a function of fiber location along these tendons by measuring hydrothermal isometric tension (HIT).
(7) It has a reticulated pattern and most resembles a spot of ink on the skin.
(8) In an electron microscope study on the developmental cycle of the goat pneumonitis strain of Chlamydia psittaci in L cells, it was observed that miniature reticulate bodies, measuring approximately 0.2 mum in diameter and surrounded by double unit membranes, were produced infrequently from normal-sized reticulate bodies through a "budding"-like process.
(9) The molecular weights of proteins synthesized by host-free reticulate bodies closely resembled the molecular weights of proteins synthesized by reticulate bodies in an intracellular environment, and included outer membrane proteins.
(10) Epidermal cells that would otherwise produce only alpha keratin in reticulate scales are induced to reorganize and differentiate into barb ridge cells that accumulate feather beta keratins.
(11) Ultrastructural examination of the co-infected cells showed that, although many CT-L2 inclusions were present, most were empty of reticulate bodies or elementary bodies.
(12) An analytical study was carried out on the different aspects presented by the nuclei (uni or multi-lobated); the nucleoli (compact, reticulate or dispersed); and the cytoplasm (immunoblastic, complex, intermediate).
(13) Small blood vessels were frequently observed in association with the reticulated epithelium.
(14) Both primordia come from the same source and their epithelium reticulizes and can form concentric corpuscles.
(15) The nucleolus, which has a reticulated fibrillogranular structure at the primordial and primary follicle stages, becomes entirely compact and is made up of a conspicuous and homogeneous mass at the antral follicle stage.
(16) The dermis of reticulate scales does not induce beta stratum formation, but it does support differentiation of a beta stratum by the determined 15-day scutate scale epidermis.
(17) Purified reticulate bodies were easily disrupted by mechanical agitation, and it was observed in shadowed preparation that ribosome-like particles 15 mmu in diameter were scattered from broken reticulate bodies.
(18) Three morphologically distinct rickettsial forms were observed in individual hypodermal cells: (i) typical growth forms with a finely reticulated cytoplasmic matrix and distinct ribosomes; (ii) atypical forms with lightly to densely staining cytoplasm and a coagulated appearance in which ribosomes cannot be distinguished from the matrix; and (iii) forms with crystalline bodies that have a striated to beaded lattice structure and, at times, a fibrillar body in the cytoplasm as well.
(19) As the result, reticulated nucleoli obtain the nucleolonemal structure.
(20) One of these proteins was confirmed, by analysis of the inferred amino acid sequence, as the 60-kDa Cr outer membrane protein associated with differentiation of reticulate bodies (RBs) into elementary bodies (EBs).