pip

The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus;      9 words ...pip • noun  apple pips synonyms : seed, stone, pit.

My legacy, the lifeboat; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

The Daily Mail (London, England);  April 21, 2005 ;     787 words ......QUESTION I was taught as a child that apple pips can be poisonous. Is this true? FURTHER...the amygladin (vitamin B17) found in apple pips as a useful tool in preventing cancer...a point of ingesting a few de-hulled apple pips when eating an apple. Other sources of...

DO PENGUINS HAVE KNEES?(Features)

The Mirror (London, England);  October 25, 1997 ;   Garfinkel, David;   343 words ......tons. But an average African elephants weighs around 5.6 tons and is about eight feet high. Is there poison in apple pips? Apple pips actually contain cyanide and you can be poisoned by them if you eat too many - but that would have to be about...

Apples are old delicacy

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  March 1, 2007 ;   Bill Sones and Rich Sones Ph.D.;   611 words ......Since bears' jaws and guts do little damage to the hard-coated apple pips, germinating "loads" were spread all over the mountain range...part, ranging farther and more widely than the bear. Later, apple pips moved west in the guts of domesticated horses and donkeys...

A portrait of the Irish; answers to correspondents.

The Daily Mail (London, England);  April 18, 2005 ;     701 words ......as a child that applepips can be poisonous. Is this true? APPLE pips contain amygdalin, a cyanide and sugar compound that degrades...perfectly capable of digesting the minuscule quantities in apple pips with no deleterious effect. Martin Sisson, Nottingham. QUESTIONS...

APPLE PIPS, burning: divination

A Dictionary of Superstitions;    IONA OPIE and MOIRA TATEM;   190 words ...APPLE PIPS, burning: divination 1849 HALLIWELL Popular Rhymes 224. I remember throwing apple-pips into the fire, saying ‘If you love me, pop and fly, If you hate me, lay and die,’ addressing an imaginary love, or naming some individual...

Science: Technoquest

The Independent - London;  January 19, 1998 ;     461 words ......wide range of dinosaurs indicate that it was probably universal among that group too. Q Are apple pips poisonous? If so, how dangerous are they? Apple pips actually contain cyanide, and you can be poisoned by them if you eat too many - though it...

The child of 18 months expelled for being a thug; Nursery must have taught...

The Daily Mail (London, England);  December 3, 2004 ;     529 words ......blond toddler is said to have bitten children at the private Apple Pips nursery in Doncaster. His mother, however, insists that he...complained to the education watchdog Ofsted. Brad started attending Apple Pips when he was four months old. His mother, a tenancy support...

Ban for 'biting' boy at just 18 months

Yorkshire Post;  December 3, 2004 ;     385 words ......the nursery. She has complained about the exclusion from the Apple Pips day nursery in Doncaster to Ofsted, the education watchdog...investigated and we cannot comment on the case." Staff at Apple Pips declined to comment. Ms Gibson said she felt nursery staff...

BRAD EXPELLED BY NURSERY AT 18MONTHS.(News)

Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  December 3, 2004 ;     80 words ...A BOY aged just 18 months has become the youngest child to be expelled from nursery. Brad Killgallon was banned from Apple Pips Nursery in Doncaster, Yorkshire, after several warnings for biting other children. His angry mother Amanda, 34, yesterday...

APPLE PIPS, squeezing: divination

A Dictionary of Superstitions;    IONA OPIE and MOIRA TATEM;   204 words ...APPLE PIPS, squeezing: divination 1844 BARNES Poems in Dorset Dialect 319–20 [fruit-pip kernel] Sometimes shot from between the thumb...

Favourite tall tales.(Family Life)

Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England);  December 11, 2006 ;     84 words ......changes, your face will stay like that 6. Easter Bunny 7. Babies are found under gooseberry bushes (or similar) 8. If you eat apple pips, they'll grow in your tummy 9. Picking your nose causes your head to cave in/your brain to fall out/your nose to fall off...

Gardening: Branch out now and join the tree crusade.(Features)

Sunday Mirror (London, England);  November 29, 1998 ;     250 words ......days and now runs until December 6. And it needn't cost a penny. Just gather seeds from your favourite trees - these could be apple pips, acorns or helicopters from a sycamore tree. Then sow them in pots of gritty compost and leave in a sheltered spot, making...

Poison, not vitamin

The Press;  May 17, 2006 ;     187 words ......protectants (and investigated very thoroughly by DSIR scientists). Typical sources of cyanide include Lima beans, cassava, and apple pips, while animals are at risk from forages such as sorghum and maize stalks. High doses of cyanide, about 40-50mg for an adult...

Logan dedicates his tree

The Northern Echo;  February 15, 2002 ;     119 words ......of our nursery nurses, had shown him how to grow plants from seeds. The idea appealed to Logan, so at home he planted some apple pips in compost and one became a plant. When Mrs Goldsbrough died, Logan decided he would like to plant his apple tree at school...