(n.) Any plant of the genus Helianthus; -- so called probably from the form and color of its flower, which is large disk with yellow rays. The commonly cultivated sunflower is Helianthus annuus, a native of America.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, the animals did not increase their intake of sunflower seeds, a preferred diet for hamsters.
(2) Wistar rats were fed for three generations with a semisynthetic diet containing either 1.5% sunflower oil (940 mg% of C18:2n-6, 6 mg% of C18:3n-3) or 1.9% soya oil (940 mg% of C18:2n-6, 130 mg% of C18:3n-3).
(3) The mass of glycolic acid recovered from sunflower leaf tissue was proportional to the amount of tissue extracted.
(4) Safety evaluations of sunflower protein isolates (SPI) obtained by various processes were performed in subchronic (90-day) feeding studies using male and female rats as experimental animals.
(5) Very high migration values are obtained for sunflower oil, Fettsimulans HB 307 or 50% ethanol.
(6) Percent apparent digestibilities for DM, NDF, and N for corn and corn-sunflower were similar and greater than for sunflower: DM (69.6, 68.2, 57.4); NDF (68.1, 61.5, 51.6); and N (66.3, 66.5, 63.6).
(7) We have isolated and characterized genes encoding the sunflower 11S globulin seed storage proteins, collectively termed helianthinin.
(8) The sunflowers are the brainchild of Kouyuu Abe, a Zen monk who owns a temple just outside Fukushima city and is committed to the "fight against radiation".
(9) In Experiment 1, a wheat-soy diet supplemented with sunflower oil was found to improve significantly (P less than .05) performance characteristics and reduce the mortality attributed to SDS as compared with the same diet supplemented with tallow.
(10) With a long-term (1 and 4 months) introduction of an additional amount of edible fats (beef, hog fats, butter, sunflower seed oil) to intact and intratracheally quartz-dust laden sexually mature male rats an organ-specific reaction to the supply of fat, and in intact rats, also some peculiarities of the reaction depending upon the kind of the introduced fats, were discovered.
(11) The method of mebendazole administration with sunflower oil, elaborated by the authors, serves to this purpose: drug concentration exceeding the minimal effective one was attained in 86% patients treated with mebendazole and sunflower oil and only in 40% patients treated with the drug alone.
(12) The maximum accumulation of fraction 1 was observed in yeast medium with sunflower-seed protein.
(13) Sowing sunflower seeds is like scattering happiness over the soil; it is a gesture in optimism.
(14) Linoleic enriched BAT (of animals born to females kept on a sunflower oil diet) seemed to be in a healthy physiological state at birth, perhaps due to rapid lipid renewal and synthesis in their membranes.
(15) Diets supplemented with high levels of saturated or unsaturated fatty acids supplied by addition of sheep kidney fat or sunflower seed oil, respectively, were fed to rats with or without dietary cholesterol.
(16) In the second experiment the utilization of lysine (relative to free lysine) for weight gain, as measured in weaner pigs, was found to be 0.68, 0.73, 0.81, 0.86 and 1.00 for cottonseed meal 1, cottonseed meal 2, meat meal, sunflower meal and skim milk respectively.
(17) Similarly, in sunflower and rolled oat, the TD values of lysine (81-83) were lower than the TD values of total nitrogen (90-91).
(18) The transport of [3H]norepinephrine into chopped cerebral cortex of neonates was changed by feeding pregnant rats with semisynthetic diets enriched in saturated fat (coconut oil) as compared to polyunsaturated fat (sunflower oil).
(19) The fractional and molar rates of LCAT were higher after sunflower and peanut oil diets and decreased significantly after LEAR oil and milk fat diets.
(20) This would allow more sweetcorn, grapes, sunflowers, soya and maize to be grown in Britain.
Tulip
Definition:
(n.) Any plant of the liliaceous genus Tulipa. Many varieties are cultivated for their beautiful, often variegated flowers.
Example Sentences:
(1) As the politics of Brexit calm down, I hope that after 100 days British political leadership is again able to focus on Nazanin’s and Gabriella’s situation and solve it before another 100 days pass.” Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s MP, Tulip Siddiq, is due to raise her case with the foreign office on Tuesday at a House of Commons session.
(2) People brought flowers, and large piles of roses, lilac, tulips and carnations lay by the blackened doors.
(3) At temperatures close to those of liquid helium, first derivative spectra corresponding to Center S-3 (gmax = 2.017) and a signal split around g = 2.00 (major features of peaks and troughs at g values of 2.045, 2.03, 1.985, 1.97 and 1.96) were observed in mung bean (Phaseolus aureus), Arum maculatum spadix, Sauromatum guttatum spadix and tulip bulb (Tulipa gesnerana) mitochondria.
(4) But when it emerged a huge fanzone was planned outside the hotel, the FA turned its attentions to the Royal Tulip hotel up the coast on São Conrado beach and hope to use the practice facilities at the nearby Urca Navy base.
(5) Art Cashin, a grizzled veteran of the New York Stock Exchange trading floor, just compared Bitcoin to the infamous Dutch tulip bubble , one of the standard comparisons for any serious modern financial crisis.
(6) The FA can now begin planning in earnest and on Tuesday night received confirmation from Fifa that its first choice hotel for the team, the Royal Tulip in Rio, had been booked.
(7) The diagnosis of tulip fingers should be considered in any patient with a hand dermatitis who works in the flower industry, especially those who frequently handle bulbs.
(8) But when it emerged a huge fanzone was planned outside the hotel, the FA turned its attentions to the Royal Tulip hotel in the shadow of Sugar Loaf mountain on São Conrado beach.
(9) The synaptonemal complex is illustrated in electron micrographs from pollen mother cells (p.m.cs) of the following plants: Fritillaria lanceolata, Allium fistulosum, Tulbaghia violacea, Luzula purpurea, Phaedranassa viridiflora and the tulip cultivar Keiserkroon.
(10) There are carnations, tulips and a tub of spring crocuses.
(11) The three-dimensional structure of one of these epitopes, recognized by monoclonal antibody NC41, has previously been determined (W. R. Tulip, J. N. Varghese, R. G. Webster, G. M. Air, W. G. Laver, and P. M. Colman, Cold Spring Harbor Symp.
(12) The first consignment is ready to be dispatched by Tulip, the UK's biggest producer and the maker of Danepak bacon and Spam, following an agreement reached by UK agriculture minister Jim Paice during a trade mission to China.
(13) Sequences selected for the construction of degenerate primers included the coat protein gene sequence of tulip breaking virus from lily, which is reported in this paper.
(14) The purified tulip enzyme exhibits regiospecificity for O2 insertion at C-5 of the arachidonic acid molecule.
(15) Frowth inhibition, metabolic inhibition, and organism deformation tests failed to reveal a serologic relationship between spiroplasma strain 23-6 from tulip tree flowers and spiroplasma strain AS 576 from honey bee.
(16) The former president of the Dutch Central Bank, Nout Wellink, has told students at the University of Amsterdam that the hype around bitcoin is worse than his country's Tulip mania in the 17th century.
(17) In 1613, as people looked for a replacement for silver, Birch says, "we might have been saying 'the idea of tulip bulbs as an asset class looks pretty good, but this central bank nonsense will never catch on.'
(18) Unlike his well-known Iranian colleagues Shirin Ebadi, a peace Nobel laureate and Shadi Sadr, a winner of Human Rights Defenders Tulip awards 2009 who were forced to leave Iran, Mostafaei was still working inside Iran although he was arrested for a while last year.
(19) A self-expanding sheath with a tulip-shaped distal end was designed for performance of percutaneous embolectomy.
(20) Current developments in this field are transurethral implants (spiral, intraurethral catheter, Wall-Stent), the balloon dilatation, transurethral incision (TUIP), laser therapy (TULIP, ITK), ultrasound-induced aspiration of tissue and heat treatment (hyperthermia, thermotherapy).