(n.) A bulbous iridaceous plant (Crocus sativus) having blue flowers with large yellow stigmas. See Crocus.
(n.) The aromatic, pungent, dried stigmas, usually with part of the stile, of the Crocus sativus. Saffron is used in cookery, and in coloring confectionery, liquors, varnishes, etc., and was formerly much used in medicine.
(n.) An orange or deep yellow color, like that of the stigmas of the Crocus sativus.
(a.) Having the color of the stigmas of saffron flowers; deep orange-yellow; as, a saffron face; a saffron streamer.
(v. t.) To give color and flavor to, as by means of saffron; to spice.
Example Sentences:
(1) He became an instructor in radar at RAF Debden, near Saffron Walden, Essex, and attained the rank of flying officer.
(2) "As I flew over in the helicopter, it was as if a sea of saffron was beneath me," Modi tells the crowd.
(3) Though he loved acting the host, as he loved all forms of acting, and though his adventurousness with saffron, butter and Calvados was undimmed, Carrier had to sell Hintlesham Hall in 1982.
(4) Is it Iranian tea served with saffron lollipops, brewed with cardamom , or served with kolucheh ?
(5) Midsagittal sections and parahilar sections were stained with hematoxylin-phloxine-saffron for microscopic examination of smooth muscle.
(6) After being turned down by one building society they ended up at Saffron.
(7) The porco bafassá (pork shank marinated for 12 hours in wine, saffron and coconut milk, £6.50) is a house favourite, as is the caldo de pé de galinha com amendoim (chicken foot and peanut soup, £2).
(8) 2 Add the mussels, coconut milk, kale, white wine, saffron water and tamarind.
(9) The crowds gather at 10am – a sea of saffron flags held by millions of marchers dressed in white cotton, the colour of mourning.
(10) Antitumor activity of saffron (Crocus sativus) extract a commonly used spice in India was studied against intraperitoneally transplanted sarcoma-180 (S-180), Ehrlich ascites Carcinoma (EAC) and Dalton's lymphoma ascites (DLA) tumours in mice.
(11) The saffron-robed 45-year-old regularly shares his hate-filled rants through DVD and social media, in which he warns against Muslims who "target innocent young Burmese girls and rape them", and "indulge in cronyism".
(12) And while the saffron cod, which likes warmer seas, would survive this temperature change, seals would have to eat saffron cod at 2.7 times the rate they eat the Arctic cod to get the same amount of fat for the winter – a tough challenge, to say the least.
(13) Saffron, the brand consultants who prepared the report, put the question like this: "How well do cities use their assets – climate, GDP, attractions, safety, infrastructure – to generate buzz?"
(14) The report’s author and director of policy at the health thinktank, Candace Imison, said: “Our research shows that reshaping the NHS workforce can offer huge opportunities … But we stress in our report that this is not simply a ‘nice to do’ – it is urgent and essential if the health service is to find a sustainable balance between available funding, patient needs and staff needs, and delivering services fit for the 21st century.” Saffron Cordery, director of policy and strategy for NHS Providers, welcomed the idea of retraining existing staff.
(15) In the middle of the fracas, unperturbed, a self-proclaimed holy man in a bright saffron woolly hat waved a legal petition.
(16) Every evening, outside the Vrindavan headquarters of the RSS, around 30 boys sing, pray and drill in front of a saffron flag.
(17) In November 2010, three years after a new wave of bloodily repressed protests dubbed the saffron revolution and to the surprise of virtually all observers, Aung San Suu Kyi was released .
(18) Dressed in his customary wine and saffron coloured robes, the Dalai Lama will – if he sticks to form – start by telling the audience: “I am a human being, just one among the 7 billion alive today.” His message of compassion, humanity, love, harmony, forgiveness, tolerance and peace – delivered amid beaming smiles – is guaranteed a rapturous reception.
(19) Simply loading up providers with savings targets and exhorting them to try harder won’t work,” said Saffron Cordery, the head of policy at NHS Providers, which represents hospitals.
(20) A time when you couldn't bulk-buy cheap meat, produce crap food with it, and sell it every few yards along every high street, and outside every school, until loads of us are waddling about, obese and poorly, or malnourished, while others are swanning into Heston Blumenthal restaurants to eat "meat fruit" (c 1500) which is mandarin, chicken liver & foie gras parfait or "rice & flesh" (c 1390) which is made with saffron, calf tail & red wine.
Safranine
Definition:
(n.) An orange-red nitrogenous dyestuff produced artificially by oxidizing certain aniline derivatives, and used in dyeing silk and wool; also, any one of the series of which safranine proper is the type.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stage IV cells contain only safranin-positive granules.
(2) In 13- and 15-day embryos, mast cells showed a pale metachromasia with toluidine blue, and stained blue with Alcian Blue-Safranin O (AB-S).
(3) At 30 and 60 days, an S-100 positive band of cells separated a deep safranin-O positive hypertrophic layer from a fibrocellular surface layer.
(4) The increase of cAMP level also affected the maturation of mast cells, as the ratio of cells of mixed granulation increased, compared to the alcian blue- and safranin-present model inhibited degranulation.
(5) Astra blue (AB) safranine stained highly significantly more mast cells than did toluidine blue.
(6) There was a profound loss of safranin-O stainability in the nucleus pulposus, annulus fibrosus and cartilagenous endplate.
(7) Other staining techniques assessed were the modified Ziehl-Neelsen, safranin-methylene blue and auramine-phenol fluorescence.
(8) A zone of safranin O depletion was present in the ventral anulus fibrosus adjacent to the nucleus pulposus in all treated discs, indicating proteoglycan loss.
(9) The distribution and localization of S-100 protein was compared with safranin-O staining and H and E morphology in relatively unaffected, degenerative, and osteophytic regions of human articular cartilage from 26 joints obtained at the time of total joint replacement for osteoarthritis.
(10) Both safranin O and Giemsa were suitable nonfluorescent staining techniques; lomofungin was not.
(11) After 8-12 weeks, however, many subserosal mast cells became positive for berberine sulfate and safranin.
(12) Defects in treated joints contained Safranin O staining material that was histologically similar to a disorganized hyaline cartilage.
(13) Intestinal MC stained with the same dyes as oral MC except for 0.005% toluidine blue, berberine sulfate, and safranin.
(14) A new microspectrophotometric method was developed for quantitation of glycosaminoglycans with Safranin O dye in articular cartilage matrix.
(15) It is concluded that the use of safranine to monitor the changes in membrane potential during Ca2+ transport by mitochondria should be avoided or special care be taken.
(16) The selectivity of myoepithelial cell staining is enhanced by oxidation of sections, nuclear staining by Safranin-O, and differentiation with Tartrazine.
(17) Ferric ion-ferrocyanide staining and safranin-0-counterstaining of neocortical tissue from cats with GM1 gangliosidosis have established that pyramidal neuron meganeurites occur proximal to axonal initial segments and that they are distinct from axonal spheroids.
(18) Cytochrome oxidase reconstituted vesicles, supplemented with ascorbate and cytochrome c. induce large spectral changes of the positive dye safranine, reversed by uncouplers and inhibitors of respiration.
(19) Histologic specimens of the articular cartilage were stained with Safranin-O to assess proteoglycans-enhanced chrondrocyte function, and the synovium was stained with pentachrome.
(20) Synaptosomes were severely energy-deprived, because anaerobic glycolysis was inhibited by 90% from the aerobic level and mitochondrial membrane potential dropped below the limit that could be detected by the safranine method.