CLOCKS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clocks mean? 

• CLOCKS (noun)
  The noun CLOCKS has 1 sense:

1. European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage

  Familiarity information: CLOCKS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLOCKS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

alfilaria; alfileria; clocks; Erodium cicutarium; filaree; filaria; pin clover; pin grass; redstem storksbill

Hypernyms ("clocks" is a kind of...):

heron's bill; storksbill (any of various plants of the genus Erodium)

 Context examples 

These clocks measure methylation found at specific locations in DNA.

(Older biologic age linked to elevated breast cancer risk, National Institutes of Health)

Hour after hour passed away, and the wearied Catherine had heard three proclaimed by all the clocks in the house before the tempest subsided or she unknowingly fell fast asleep.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Researchers from the University of Cambridge used volcanic minerals known as ‘crystal clocks’ to calculate how long magma can be stored in the deepest parts of volcanic systems.

(‘Crystal clocks’ used to time magma storage before volcanic eruptions, University of Cambridge)

A research team led by biologists at Tufts University has found two genes that may allow some insect species to survive climate change by adjusting their biological annual clocks, while others succumb.

(Secrets to climate change adaptation uncovered in the European corn borer moth, National Science Foundation)

But unlike humans, plants don’t have a brain to keep their clocks synchronised.

(Plants can tell time even without a brain, University of Cambridge)

He seemed to be the only restless thing, except the clocks, in the whole motionless house.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Scientists have known for some time that, in addition to our biological clocks, genes play a key role in sleep and that sleep patterns can vary widely.

(Researchers explore complex genetic network behind sleep duration, National Institutes of Health)

A seasonal time adjustment in which clocks are set one hour ahead of local standard time.

(Daylight-Savings Time, NCI Thesaurus)

Ubiquitination and deubiquitination enzymes participate in highly regulated protein degradation, chromatin remodeling, heat shock, cell cycle progression, differentiation, antigen presentation, apoptosis, signal transduction, transcriptional activation, biological clocks, receptor down regulation, and endocytosis.

(Deubiquitinating Enzyme, NCI Thesaurus)

Ubiquitination regulates protein degradation, chromatin remodeling, cell cycle progression, differentiation, gene expression, stress response, ribosome biogenesis, antigen presentation, apoptosis, signal transduction, transcriptional activation, biological clocks, receptor down regulation, and endocytosis.

(E3 Ubiquitin Ligase, NCI Thesaurus)