(1) Removal of achenes from fruits and growing the receptacles without auxin resulted in the time-dependent accumulation of 52,000 Mr polypeptide.
(2) Achen and Achibu, from Amorikot primary school in Katine sub-county in rural northern Uganda, are performing a series of plays and poems at a National Sanitation Week event, organised by the African Medical and Research Foundation (Amref).
(3) It is an interesting fact that neither 2-monoene alkalmides nor polyacetylenes could be detected during achene germination.
(4) Leaves, stems, roots, and achenes were assayed separately.
(5) It has been proposed that this role is the transport of thyroxine from the bloodstream to the brain [Schreiber, G., Aldred, A.R., Jaworowski, A., Nilsson, C., Achen, M.G.
(6) Download our PDF of Farm-Africa and Amref's six-month achievements Harriet Achen stands in front of an expectant crowd, betraying no sign of nerves.
(7) The achenes (fruits) of the therapeutically used Echinacea species E. purpurea, E. angustifolia, and E. pallida can be differentiated structurally (shape, anatomy) as well as phytochemically (essential oil components, alkamides).
(8) Chronic dermatitis in nutria (Myocastor coypus) in Louisiana was traced to secondary bacterial and fungal infection resulting from the penetration of achene awns of smooth beggartick (Bidens laevis) into the skin.
(9) She busies herself setting children tasks to help prepare a family meal and her fellow actors scuttle around obeying Achen's every command.
(10) Ozark Beauty) receptacles is regulated by auxin supplied from the achenes.
Egret
Definition:
(n.) The name of several species of herons which bear plumes on the back. They are generally white. Among the best known species are the American egret (Ardea, / Herodias, egretta); the great egret (A. alba); the little egret (A. garzetta), of Europe; and the American snowy egret (A. candidissima).
(n.) A plume or tuft of feathers worn as a part of a headdress, or anything imitating such an ornament; an aigrette.
(n.) The flying feathery or hairy crown of seeds or achenes, as the down of the thistle.
(n.) A kind of ape.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty-one of 24 adult male and female cattle egrets (Bubulcus ibis ibis) collected in Geneva County, Alabama had numerous white cyst-like structures (1,466 microns X 354 microns) found within the loose connective tissues of the skeletal muscles of the inguinal region, beneath the serosa of the proventriculus and in the heart beneath the epicardium (one adult male bird).
(2) C. coli was found in 34.4% of isolates from cattle egrets and in 76.5% of those from pigs.
(3) Marked differences in levles of viremia were not observed among Black-crowned Night Herons, Great Egrets, or Snowy Egrets.
(4) Bird life is abundant and includes oystercatchers, ibis, egrets and cormorants.
(5) Brain ChE activity of nestling snowy egrets (Egretta thula) and black-crowned night-herons (Nycticorax nycticorax) collected in one colony each from Rhode Island, Texas and California (USA) also increased significantly with age and did not differ among individuals from different nests or colonies.
(6) Great Egrets, Striated and Boat-billed Herons and Scarlet Ibis older than 30 days of age developed viremias of lower levels and shorter durtions than did young birds.
(7) In Puerto Rico, we also compared levels in adult cattle egrets with young and found higher concentrations of mercury and manganese, but lower concentrations of selenium in the adults.
(8) Banks and Egret), barley, sorghum, meat meal, soya-bean meal or casein as test feedstuffs.
(9) From 1989-1991, the concentrations of heavy metals and selenium were studied in the feathers of fledgling cattle egrets Bubulcus ibis, a terrestrially-feeding insectivore, from New York and Delaware in the northeastern United States, from Puerto Rico, and from Egypt.
(10) Kingfishers flashed by, bright white egrets pottered around but there was no sign of the beavers.
(11) Blood virus levels were highest in juvenile Louisiana Herones, adult Robins and adult Mockingbirds and were lowest in juvenile Common Egrets.
(12) We surveyed 12 migrating large egrets, Egretta alba modesta, for their infection status with intestinal trematodes, from June to September, 1990.
(13) This arbovirus has been isolated from humans, parrots and egrets.
(15) He wondered what had happened to the land, its fish-filled inlets, the shrimp-spawning marsh, the oak groves, the hummocks overrun with white egrets, how a place that fed so richly whoever sailed through it could dissolve, history and graveyard and church and road and home.
(16) Mercury concentrations were twelve times higher in the feathers of cattle egrets at Aswan compared to Cairo.
(17) Trace elements (Cd, Cu, Hg, Pb, Se, Zn) were measured in nine organs (liver, kidney, breast muscle, lungs, breastbone, stomach, gizzard, spleen, feathers) of several specimens of Greater Flamingos (Phaenicopterus ruber (Pallas] and Little Egrets (Egretta garzetta (L.] from the Camargue, in the Rhône river delta.
(18) Fifty-seven of 61 nestling, 8- to 30-day-old herons of three species (Black-crowned Night Heron, Great Egret, and Snowy Egret), developed viremia lasting one to three days following subcutaneous inoculation with small doses of endemic or epidemic strains of Venezuelan encephalitis virus from Mexico, Guatemala or Venezuela.
(19) Seven to nine days after inoculation with a replicating antigen, Venezuelan encephalitis virus, hemagglutination-inhibiting antibodies were present in plasma of 18 to 20 black-crowned night herons (BCNH), 14 of 15 great egrets (ge) , and 7 of 7 snowy egrets (SE).
(20) Using feathers from young cattle egrets is a potentially sensitive tool for biomonitoring for metals, especially lead, since they reflect the local area surrounding the breeding colony.