How To Use Mimosa In A Sentence
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Research has shown that the flower of the mimosa tree has a sedative effect.
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Among these herbaceous plants we find at intervals the Avicennia tomentosa, the Scoparia dulcis, a frutescent mimosa with very irritable leaves, * and particularly cassias, the number of which is so great in South America, that we collected, in our travels, more than thirty new species.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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I find it unsettling that Stalin used to toss breadballs at his wife during dinner, that he spoiled his children and that he loved growing mimosas.
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Apparently facultatively bipedal, with a toothless bird-like skull sporting large orbits, dinosaur-like cervical vertebrae possessing true pneumatic foramina, and reduced gracile forelimbs and a theropod-like pelvis, Effigia is strikingly like ornithomimosaurs (ostrich dinosaurs) in several details, mostly those concerning the skull and cervical vertebrae.
Archive 2006-01-01
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Here are a few shrubs growing on these shelly heights, viz. Rhamnus frangula, Sideroxilon, Myrica, Zanthoxilon clava Herculis, Juniperus Americana, Lysium salsum; together with several new genera and species of the herbacious and suffruticose tribes, Croton, Stillingia, &c. but particularly a species of Mimosa (Mimosa virgatia) which in respect of the elegancy of its pinnated
Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
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Impossibly beautiful girls are parading down the Promenade des Anglais, hurling bright sprays of Mimosa to a boisterous crowd.
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Or maybe we could just invite the morons to brunch and screen Beaches over mimosas.
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The Mimosa tree pictured and described here, or what they call mimosa in the southeastern US is not the same mimosa that people are familiar with in Europe and the Middle East.
A Bouquet of Mimosa Blossoms
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NearPoint is the first product to arrive from Mimosa, which started back in 2003 on the back of $6.5m in venture capital.
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I will watch it late and give my impressions in time for your morning coffee (or mimosa…)
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I realize that Flower Markets are a dime a dozen, all over France, but they are woefully rare here in the US – and never with such a profusion of ranunculi, mimosas, and anemones!
Que Faire a Aix-en-Provence? / What to do in Aix-en-Provence? - French Word-A-Day
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What we had planned for the summer was a little light gardening followed by mimosas on the patio while the younger kids disported themselves on the swing set and the 13-year-old moped in the hammock.
The Case Against Summer
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So thick are the palisades of thorny mimosa -- an aggressive weed akin to the touch-me-not -- that India's endangered one-horned rhino can no longer move about freely in Kaziranga National Park.
Attack Of the Aliens
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A gallery of Mimosa asperata and Salix chevalieri grows along watercourses above a Cyperus maculatus understory.
Inner Niger Delta flooded savanna
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At middle elevations, dense thickets of shrubs such as desert ceanothus, alderleaf mountain mahogany, and catclaw mimosa form chaparral communities.
Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA)
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In the karri forests, the most important families are Fabaceae, Mimosaceae, Orchidaceae, Myrtaceae, and Proteaceae.
Jarrah-Karri forest and shrublands
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There were cicadas in the mimosa and gulls crying on the wing.
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Because of its prickles the Boers call the mimosa the "wait-a-bit" thorn, but there was no thought of waiting a bit among the 12th Lancers at the Berea, when they charged the savage Basutos and captured their chief Moshesh.
Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
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When the mimosa I had asked for arrived, I was pleasantly surprised by the delivery.
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Oh, and make sure it's BYO, so you can put together some strong mimosas for half the price.
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Brunch can mean just about anything to your date, though, from an English muffin with butter to Nova Scotia lox on a bagel with a side of caviar and a pitcher of mimosas.
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For about 48 hours in July, Waikiki harbor is awash in mai tais, mimosas, Gatorade, and joy.
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Wait a minute ... a mimosa is a morning drink, right?
I've Always Said That I Eat Like A Hired Farm Hand
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Pour your Aunt Judith a mimosa and confront her as to why she wouldn't let your cousin Jay hang out with you after you introduced him to the art of sneaking Uncle Harold's vodka.
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The berry mimosa is a KILLER (as in good).
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The choice of elm, gorse and mimosa reflects these extremes and reinforces the vegetation already present.
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The feathery tamarisk [*] and the nabk, the moringa, the carob, or locust tree several varieties of acacia and mimosa-the sont, the mimosa habbas, the white acacia, the Acacia Parnesxana -- and the pomegranate tree, increase in number with the distance from the
History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)
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This allowed Alex and I to still make it to Sunday brunch at 1 PM with hours to spare, because everyone knows what a cranky-pants I am until I have my third mimosa.
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These skins are both tanned and tawed, the principal tanning agent being the mimosa bark.
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Yesterday I added 4 Yellow Goat's Horn pepper seeds, my hop seeds and some mimosa pudica (sensitive plant) seed.
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A heavy scent, mimosa or bougainvillaea, gave the air an oppressive, physical quality.
LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
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On the shores of the Hebrides, we collect seeds of Mimosa scandens, of Dolichos urens, of Guilandina bonduc, and several other plants of Jamaica, the isle of Cuba, and of the neighbouring continent.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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They feed mainly on leaves of acacia and mimosa, using their 450mm extendable tongues and mobile lips to secure their food.
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I am considering calling the mimosa perfume Acacia.
Archive 2006-07-01
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The only other drink choices were beer and mimosas so we opted for those instead.
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There is an article occasionally used called "catechu," which is an extract made from the wood of a mimosa tree, a native of India, half a pound of which answers the same purpose.
Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
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Lavish it on your face and in 8 to 10 minutes the rich concentrations of honey, Echinacea, mimosa and neroli will get to work on nourishing and firming your skin.
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We look up at the sky through a fringe of leaves belonging to a locust tree or a mimosa, the rows of lacy leaves forming a mantilla overhead.
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AP drama writer William Glover caught up one morning in 1968 with the "leggy" actress, who was "getting a hurry-up hairdo, sipping a champagne mimosa, and talking.
A Mimosa Makeover
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If you don't like a scent that's too full, you can use a lighter one like mimosa or night-scented stock petitgrain (it's the leaves of the orange tree, it has a green character with nuances of neroli and orange)
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On one side it was anchored by a huge chinaberry tree, on the other by a towering mimosa.
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The road is bordered with large zamang-trees, or mimosas, the trunks of which rise to sixty feet high.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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The sensitiveness of mimosa leaves does not depend on a change of growth.
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The zamang is a fine species of mimosa, and its tortuous branches are divided by bifurcation.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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Capeskin in beautiful new pale pastels - blue, mimosa yellow, pink and white - is seen in small dainty bags and pastel pigskin is used for a pencil box style.
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They feed mainly on leaves of acacia and mimosa, using their 450 mm extendable tongues and mobile lips to secure their food.
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a mimosa's leaves are sensitive to touch
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WE next entered a vast forest of the most stately Pine trees that can be imagined, planted by nature at a moderate distance, on a level, grassy plain, enamelled with a variety of flowering shrubs, viz. Viola, Ruellia infundibuliformea, Amaryllis atamasco, Mimosa sensitiva, Mimosa intsia and many others new to me.
Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
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And if you order this with a mimosa, I promise you that your day will start off nicely.
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Mitotic inhibitors were used on seed or meristem material to produce tetraploid plants or sectors of plants of selected clones of amur maple, Norway maple, mimosa, trumpet vine, tutsan St. Johnswort, goldenraintree, privet, callery pear, and lacebark elm.
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The gold lasted for barely a year but in the meantime numerous trees were planted in the area: wild acacia, teak, olive, tambotie, beech, ebony, seringa, mimosa and quince.
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We had mimosa trees that evoked images of Hawaii with their flowerage of pink brilliance.
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The country traversed, consisted of scrubby flats, and low sandy ridges, timbered with bloodwood, messmate, mimosa, melaleuca, grevillea, and two or three species of the sterculia or curriijong, then in full blossom.
Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland
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It is the mimosa nilotica of Linnæus, the shittah of the Hebrew writers, and grows abundantly in Palestine.
The Symbolism of Freemasonry
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Gigantic vegetables of the most different families intermix their branches; five-leaved bignonias grow by the side of bonduc-trees; cassias shed their yellow blossoms upon the rich fronds of arborescent ferns; myrtles and eugenias, with their thousand arms, contrast with the elegant simplicity of palms; and among the airy foliage of the mimosa the ceropia elevates its giant leaves and heavy candelabra-shaped branches.
We and the World, Part I A Book for Boys
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That's what Cherry and her rangers use when they go out to eradicate feral ants, poison weeds like spiky mimosa, and do post-mortems on buffaloes to check for introduced diseases.
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He threw up behind a mimosa tree in the woods back of Patty's.
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No doubt, the champagne-laden mimosas will be flowing at Fox this morning.
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Flora normally found in the deserts of West Texas, such as catclaw mimosa and soaptree yucca, also occur on dry sites.
Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)
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I've now got in my bunky-hole (it is not quite six feet square) a polypod fern, a plate of moss, a pot of white hyacinths, and also catkins, violets, and mimosa!
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915
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The main crops produced were roses, mimosas, carnations and chrysanthemums, as ornamental non-edible plants, and tomato, lettuce and basil, as edible ones.
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Borana: burquqe, burquqis Chonyi: mtsemeri, munga Digo: kigundi, chigundigundi English: Egyptian mimosa,
Chapter 7
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Instead of the laurel-leaved trees of various kinds, we have African ebonies, acacias, and mimosae: the grass is shorter and more sparse, and we can move along without wood-cutting.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death
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Much effort have been made to eradicate Mimosa pigra since it first appeared in the Park in 1984, a full-time team of six staff being employed for this purpose alone, using manual and herbicidal techniques.
Kakadu National Park, Australia
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We're drunk at noon, thanks to a great little concoction called a mimosa that, though not strong enough to suit a thirty-fifth birthday, is served with brunch at Edward's on King Avenue.
A Glimpse
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The diet of the edentulous forms is unclear, but a recent discovery of gastroliths in an undescribed Chinese ornithomimosaur may indicate a herbivorous/granivorous diet for at least this species.
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Never miss an episode, unless it's right after the Superbowl and I've been drinking mimosas since noon.
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Since we're talking bubbly, and a morning wedding, a mimosa is another option.
Mary Orlin: What to Drink While You Watch the Royal Wedding
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He's credited with the introduction to the West of eucalyptus, acacia, mimosa, and the genus named after him, Banksia, all well known species in Australia where his mark was firmly left.
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The brrr-cloop-brrr of a bird in the mimosa branches, a hoe in the garden soil-scritch, scritch-and, somewhere, her mother's voice.
Excerpt: The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
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They also offer a brunch on sea days between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. with mimosas, champagne, and wines in addition to a ‘Fruits of the Sea’ buffet.
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the sensitiveness of Mimosa leaves does not depend on a change of growth
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The sunset is fading to violet; feathers of mimosa glow in the last light.
MOON PASSAGE
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I was pleasantly surprised to see this tree species - the Mimosa, known by it's fluffy light pink flowers and pinnate shaped leaves.
Archive 2009-08-01
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One day, I woke up, drank a mimosa, looked out the window and exclaimed, ‘God, I wished I lived next to Liv Tyler!’
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Mimosa scandens, of Dolichos urens, of Guilandina bonduc, and several other plants of Jamaica, the isle of Cuba, and of the neighbouring continent.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1
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We set out early in the morning, and by mid-day reached the ravine of Paypote, where there is a tiny rill of water, with a little vegetation, and even a few algarroba trees, a kind of mimosa.
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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At middle elevations, a chaparral community occurs beneath the trees, composed of shrubs such as desert ceanothus, alderleaf mountain mahogany, and catclaw mimosa.
Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)
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Although I managed to keep up the detox for three weeks, when I went to Los Angeles for a wedding, it became nearly impossible to turn down a mimosa.
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Shrugging, Chelsea takes another sip of her mimosa.
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Kaye believes one of the most likely was cohoba, a hallucinogen made from the beans of a mimosa species.
Times, Sunday Times
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Here we heard that Moselikatse was advancing to make an end of us, so we made our laager as strong as we could, lashing the disselboom of each waggon beneath the framework of that before it and filling the spaces beneath and between with the crowns and boughs of sharp-thorned mimosa trees, which we tied to the trek tows and brake chains so that they could not be torn away.
Swallow: a tale of the great trek
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The main crops produced were roses, mimosas, carnations and chrysanthemums, as ornamental non-edible plants, and tomato, lettuce and basil, as edible ones.
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They passed red-roofed villas, fields of carnations, mimosa groves, plantations of lemon and orange trees.
THE OPEN DOOR
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The brunch set comes with coffee or tea, plus mimosa, bloody mary, or a shot of aquavit.
Where Herring Rules
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Things we think of as exotic grow wild here, like the mimosa.
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We adored his focaccia and extraordinarily perfumed mimosa and Marsala gelati, but his savoury dishes left us underwhelmed.
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Spring in Tuscany means clouds of golden mimosa and an instinct to head south over the Ponte Vecchio to see Italian renaissance landscaping at its best in the Boboli Gardens.
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She wandered over to the wing bridge door and opened it, allowing the night wind to blow in the scent of mimosa.
CORMORANT
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I filled two champagne flutes, his with a regular mimosa and mine with an odd concoction, and brought them out.
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Presently, while hunting for insects in short mimosa tangle up to the knee, I disturbed a strange-looking animal, about the size of a sheep, brownish colour, long tail, short legs, feline in aspect and movement, but quite strange to me.
Adventures in Many Lands
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Of these pests, the mimosa webworm is the most serious, especially for thornless varieties.
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At middle elevations, a chaparral community occurs beneath the trees, composed of shrubs such as desert ceanothus, alderleaf mountain mahogany, and catclaw mimosa.
Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)
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Our weekends are typically filled with flea market food tastings, mimosa-soaked brunches, and intimate meals at creative Brooklyn hotspots serving things like fried kale, creamy risotto, and creatively flavored artisan ice cream.
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You are right, it is called acacia, but it's not a "true" acacia, like mimosas are.
Tree of Mystery
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Just add green salsa, plus huge mugs of potent coffee or a $7 bottomless mimosa that is no better than most of its ilk.
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The two weeds, giant sensitive plant Mimosa pigra and the waterweed Salvinia molesta, are currently of great concern because they can easily come to dominate wetland areas.
Kakadu National Park, Australia
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The vegetation of these plains changes more or less continuously throughout the wet-dry cycle, from permanent open water communities, invaded by the waterweed Salvinia molesta, which, with the giant sensitive plant Mimosa pigra, is rampant, and to ephemeral communities of herbs, grasses and sedges associated with seasonally flooded, cracking clay soils that dry out completely in the dry season when the southern hills become a refuge for the Park's fauna.
Kakadu National Park, Australia
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Species such as A. dealbata, known as mimosa by florists, A. albida and A. tortilis, are valued as ornamentals while A. farnesiana and A. dealbata are used in the production of base oils for perfumes.
Chapter 2
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Kids have crammed tables with action figures and board games, and fresh O.J. mimosas and Bloody Marys outnumber cups of coffee.
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It also did not expect the existence of mimosa, is quite rare.
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The wood of Mimosa teniflora presents porous distributed in uniform diffuse porosity; axial parenchyma paratracheal vasicentric, confluent vasicentric, aliform and confluent aliform; and very short fibers with thick walls.
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When Captain Cook arrived he found only 600 men and fewer than 30 women eking out existences on an island with only stunted mulberries and tiny mimosas for trees.
Richard Bangs: Skullduggery on Easter Island (Part II of II)
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The gold lasted for barely a year but in the meantime numerous trees were planted in the area: wild acacia, teak, olive, tambotie, beech, ebony, seringa, mimosa and quince.
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At middle elevations, dense thickets of shrubs such as desert ceanothus, alderleaf mountain mahogany, and catclaw mimosa form chaparral communities.
Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA)
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Some examples are associations of Stronium graveolens with Tabebuia billbergii, Haematoxylon brasiletto with Melochia tomentosa, Libidibia coriaria with Cordia curassavica, Bursera glabra with Castela erecta, Vitex cymosa with Libidibia coraria, Mimosa cabrera with Cordia curassavica, Bursera tomentosa with Bursera graveolens, and Castela erecta with Cercidium praecox.
Guajira-Barranquilla xeric scrub
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With their bipinnate leaves, calliandras superficially resemble Leucaena and Mimosa species.
Chapter 8
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Near Cura we found all the people occupied in clearing the ground covered with mimosa, sterculia, and Coccoloba excoriata, for the purpose of extending the cultivation of cotton.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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It was the "zamang" tree -- a species of _mimosa_, and one of the most beautiful trees of South America.
The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon
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Some people I know drink that much in free champagne and mimosas.
