(n.) A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a teasel.
(n.) A pendent ornament, attached to the corners of cushions, to curtains, and the like, ending in a tuft of loose threads or cords.
(n.) The flower or head of some plants, esp. when pendent.
(n.) A narrow silk ribbon, or the like, sewed to a book to be put between the leaves.
(n.) A piece of board that is laid upon a wall as a sort of plate, to give a level surface to the ends of floor timbers; -- rarely used in the United States.
(v. i.) To put forth a tassel or flower; as, maize tassels.
(v. t.) To adorn with tassels.
Example Sentences:
(1) In order to elucidate the impact of these factors, we have undertaken the analysis of these gene families in the tassel-eared squirrel (Sciurus aberti) which has been separated into discrete subspecies by geographic barriers and whose food resources can be quantitated for estimating environmental quality.
(2) Black-and-white tasselled patent-leather pumps, Madras-print sandals and neon-pink stilettos all featured.
(3) Series nine of The Apprentice ( Tue & Wed, 9pm, BBC1 ) and the winds of change are howling around Lord Sugar's tasselled loafers.
(4) Spray-painted monk-strap shoes, desert boots and tasselled loafers paraded on a catwalk raised to audience eye-level in order to give a an ant's-eye view of the main event.
(5) Each packaging unit consists of a thick fasicle, formed by the alignment of smooth chromatin fibers, which frays out into tassels of looped fibers.
(6) Indeed, it has come some distance since the Fifa President, Sepp Blatter, suggested the women should play in skimpies and tassels to make the sport more popular (mind you, that was all of eight years ago).
(7) One thousand five hundred and seven tasselled maize plants in Lusaka and 96 in a rural village where mosquitoes were plentiful, have been surveyed.
(8) 'Is it proper to wear tasselled loafers with a business suit or not?'"
(9) The conservation ethos is neatly summarised in the forester Ritchie Tassell’s sarcastic question, “how did nature cope before we came along?” Through rewilding – the mass restoration of ecosystems – I see an opportunity to reverse the destruction of the natural world.
(10) The rules say shoes "must be sturdy and plain black, no trainers, heels, patent leather, open toes or slipper type shoes … Kickers must be plain black with no tassel".
(11) Using somatic excision as an assay of Mutator activity, we found that activity can change in small sectors of the tassel; however, there are no overall activity changes in the tassel during the period of pollen shedding.
(12) His mother says that when she sent Noah back wearing Kickers with the branded label cut off, he was searched while queuing for assembly and given detention because she had failed to spot a tassel on the inside of his shoe.
(13) Taken from this set, 3RDEYEGIRL and Prince - who is wearing a small pair of flares and a tasselled waistcoat - tear through an electric version of the 1984 hit.
(14) The medical attendance of the congenital imperforation of the tear-nasal tassel continues to be an actual problem because of the great number of cases met in practice.
(15) Wearing her gold tasselled collarette over a bright summer dress, she explained: "We're Christian, we embrace Scotland as a nation but we embrace the UK; we're part of the UK.
(16) Surrounded by golden mantlepieces, tasselled curtains and a coterie of suits, Mohamed Morsi did not have the air of a man about to be ousted as president.
(17) Heterozygosity estimates of Tcrb-C and Tcra-V1 sequences were determined for annually collected samples and compared with the yearly estimates of availability of hypogeous fungi, one of the major diet items of tassel-eared squirrels.
(18) At the higher temperature of 45 degrees C these vegetative tissues were blocked in removal of an intron from the HSP70 mRNA precursor, which accumulated to a high level in tassel tissue.
(19) S14 transcript levels are highest in mitotically active tissues, such as seedling shoot, developing endosperm, and tassel primordia, and lowest in tissues with little cell division, such as mature leaf and root.
(20) The retinula cells 1 and 4 (group I according to Gribakin, 1967) end as svf type 1 with three tassel-like branches in stratum B of the first synaptic region.
Toque
Definition:
(n.) A kind of cap worn in the 16th century, and copied in modern fashions; -- called also toquet.
(n.) A variety of the bonnet monkey.
Example Sentences:
(1) Praia do Toque, Alagoas Ricardo Freire, author of 100 Praias Que Valem a Viagem (100 Beaches You Must Visit) São Miguel dos Milagres fringes 15km of beaches protected both by reefs and the lack of a highway – the main coastal road turns inland, and only those in the know take the local road that leads to a forest of coconut trees and scattered villages.
(2) Severin's uniform is "a Krakovian costume in [Wanda's] colours, light blue with red piping and a red toque decorated with peacock feathers … the silver buttons bear her coat of arms."
(3) We may never reach the dizzy levels of addiction to this herb shown by the late, great American gourmand James Beard, who wrote, "I believe if ever I had to practise cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon to go around", but I hope I've convinced you that tarragon is just as good for a little culinary rough and tumble as it is for the rarefied world of starched white linen and towering toques.
(4) Gordon Ramsay has also thrown his toque in the ring, confirming he plans to launch his own app in the summer.
(5) Plasmodium fragile infection of the toque monkey is a natural host-parasite association in which parasite sequestration occurs as during P. falciparum infection of humans.
(6) We demonstrate that in a simian malaria parasite (Plasmodium cynomolgi in its natural host, the toque monkey), the loss of infectivity during crisis is due to the death of circulating intraerythrocytic gametocytes mediated by crisis serum.
(7) Set up base at Praia do Toque and walk the sands nearby.
(8) The infectivity of Plasmodium cynomolgi in its natural host, the toque monkey, Macaca sinica, to Anopheles tessellatus mosquitoes was studied in relation to the evolution of anti-sexual-stage immunity in the host during the course of a blood-induced infection.
(9) Animals seropositive for HTLV were found only among macaques originating from various localities, toque monkeys in Sri Lanka (17.5%), crab-eating macaques in Thailand (1.3%), stumptailed macaques in Thailand (1.5%), rhesus monkeys in Thailand (3.3%), and Celebes macaques in Indonesia (16.9%).
(10) • Where to stay: Pousada do Toque , the region's pioneers.
(11) The course of infection of Plasmodium fragile in its natural host, the toque monkey Macaca sinica, consists of a primary peak of parasitemia followed by several distinct, successive peaks of lower parasitemia.