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pilin (medicine) and tawny (iou)


pilin (medicine)


pilin


1. General term for the protein subunit of pilus.

2. Protein subunit (7.2 kD) of f pili, sex pili coded for by the F plasmid.


tawny (iou)



tawny adjective & noun. ME.
[Anglo-Norman taune, Old French tane, from tan TAN noun1. Cf. TENNe.]
A. adjective. Of an orange- or yellow-brown colour. Formerly also, of any of several shades of brown. ME.
D. H. Lawrence Her suave, tawny neck was bare and bewitching.
b. noun.
Woollen cloth of a tawny colour. Also (rare), a garment made of such cloth. ME-L18.
Tawny colour; Heraldry = TENNe. LME.
P. V. Price The deep aureole of light orange darkening to tawny.
A black or dark-skinned person. Cf. tawny-moor below. arch. derog. M17.
= tawny port below. E20.
Special collocations & comb.: tawny eagle a uniformly brown eagle, Aquila rapax, found in Africa and Asia. tawny frogmouth the most widespread frogmouth, Podargus strigoides, which is found throughout Australia. tawny grisette an edible mushroom, Amanita fulva, with an orange-brown cap, growing chiefly in birchwoods on peaty soil. tawny-moor derog. = sense B.3 above. tawny owl a mottled brown owl, Strix aluco, found commonly throughout Eurasia and N. Africa, and characterized by its familiar hooting call; also called brown owl. tawny pipit a large pale pipit, Anthus campestris, found in much of Europe, central Asia, and N. Africa. tawny port a port Wine made from a blend of several vintages matured in wood.
tawniness noun M16.