(n.) The Manila-hemp plant (Musa textilis); also, its fiber. See Manila hemp under Manila.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mosquito density in Rangas where abaca is in abundance is much higher, almost twice, than that of Putiao where abaca is absent.
(2) Aedes poicilius, which breeds in abaca and banana plants, was found to be very anthropophilic, comprising 96.5% of the mosquitoes biting man.
(3) The banana axils is a favorite breeding place for Aedes poecilus but may also utilize the abaca axils.
(4) This finding is very favorable in the transmission of bancroftian filariasis because this species of banana is planted around houses even closer to human dwelling than the abaca plants.
(5) Each was paired with a confederate, also a male college senior, in an ABACA single subject design.
(6) poicilius accounted for 58% of larvae found in the axils of banana plants and 31% of those in abaca axils; negligible numbers of larvae of this species were found in pandanus and gabi axils.
Manila
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Manilla
Example Sentences:
(1) The Metro-Manila Developmental Screening Test (MMDST) is a Philippine version of the Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST) for which norms were developed in 1980 on 6006 Filipino children.
(2) Read more Imelda Marcos returned to Manila in 1991 after her husband died in Honolulu and fought off several corruption cases, including one that could have seen her jailed for up to 50 years.
(3) Riyadh recently rejected demands from Manila for medical insurance for maids and for information on employers to be supplied before their departure.
(4) The defiant Philippine leader has responded to critics with a string of outbursts, including labelling the US ambassador to Manila a “gay son of a whore” , telling the Catholic church “don’t fuck with me” , and accusing the UN of issuing “shitting” statements about his anti-drugs policies.
(5) The first study examined the performance of 911 children, with histories of perinatal risk events, on a restandardized Philippine (Metro-Manila) version of the Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST) which was developed in 1980.
(6) After meeting the summit host, the president of the Philippines, Obama said the US and Manila had agreed on the need for “bold steps to lower tensions, including pledging to halt reclamation, new construction and militarisation of disputed islands in the South China Sea”.
(7) Speaking in Manila, Obama said the goal of the new round of sanctions was to change the Russian calculation in its alleged sponsorship of separatists in Ukraine.
(8) It also sent a group of delegates to the Ist Asian Congress of Pediatrics, organized by the Association of Pediatric Societies in South East Asian Region (APSSEAR), held in Manila in 1974.
(9) There is therefore an "urban bias" of food supply to Metro Manila, that is, there is a much higher demand capacity for Metro Manila to draw food supply because of its higher income level and bigger population.
(10) A compelling new documentary, The Thrilla in Manila, is unflinching in the way it documents the systematic racial abuse Ali directed against Frazier for the next five years - culminating in the final fight of their epic trilogy in 1975.
(11) Siaron’s drug use (though his partner forcefully denies that he was dealing) while pedalling passengers around the packed streets of Manila should offend, or surprise, nobody.
(12) So it’s understandable that the Australian prime minister couldn’t quite take in what the US president said to him as journalists filed into the American purpose-built venue for bilateral meetings and other summit business on a balmy Tuesday evening at Apec in Manila.
(13) A jeepney in Manila: US military 4x4s left over from world war II have been converted, often flamboyantly, into the most popular form of transport in the city.
(14) In some cases the devastation has been total," the cabinet secretary, Rene Almendras, told reporters in Manila.
(15) As we swapped experiences with similar projects focusing on Manila, Mexico City and Dhaka, we began to see ourselves as part of a bigger project, ensuring that cities which rely on informal transport systems are part of the technological revolution that is brewing around information and transit.
(16) On average, women in Baltimore breastfed less often but for longer at each feed than women in Manila, and the mean times until ovulation were 27 and 38 weeks post partum.
(17) The youth of Manila is talented and dedicated to making the city once again worthy of its “Distinguished and Ever Loyal” monicker.
(18) His willingness to fight in such far-flung locales as Zaire, Manila, and Malaysia signalled a shift away from superpower dominance towards a growing awareness of the importance of the developing world.
(19) But the brutal conflict of the Thrilla in Manila is the one indelibly etched into boxing history.
(20) From May 1988 to May 1990, a prospective autopsy study was performed in patients who died at the Philippine General Hospital in Manila, Philippines.