(n.) The lucern (Medicago sativa); -- so called in California, Texas, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Preserving alfalfa as silage and feeding in a TMR to cows in early lactation resulted in greater milk production via increased DMI or improved feed efficiency compared with preserving alfalfa as hay and feeding grain separately.
(2) The clover constituents chiefly incriminated for these effects are glycosides of the isoflavone derivatives genistein and its 4'-methyl ether biochanin-A, daidzein and its 4'-methyl ether formononetin, and pratensein; coumestrol and its 3'- and 4'-methyl ethers account for the estrogenic activity of alfalfa.
(3) 2, measurements were performed on ground alfalfa hay, alfalfa silage, and bromegrass hay containing 42.6, 35, and 66.4% NDF, respectively.
(4) Consumption of alfalfa hay resulted in the highest total viable counts of rumen bacteria but a lower proportion of fibrolytic counts than seen on the grass diets.
(5) The culture maintained at pH 6.7 contained the types of bacteria often found in high concentration in the rumen, whereas the culture maintained at pH 5.0 had a high percentage of bacteria which could not be identified with the major rumen bacteria found in rumens of animals fed alfalfa hay.
(6) As the result of differences in drug intake by individual calves, a pelleted feed additive given as top dress on chopped alfalfa hay gave an unsatisfactory mean anthelmintic response.
(7) Mutations in all 13 groups, in an otherwise wild-type genetic background, are Fix+ on alfalfa.
(8) Sperm cells within pollen grains and pollen tubes of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) were observed at the ultrastructural level, and their plastid DNA was detected by DAPI (4,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole) staining.
(9) Ewes were fed a 50:50 mixture of alfalfa and prairie hay ad libitum and either no concentrates (C), .4 kg concentrates .
(10) In 1988, seven ewes were fed a basal feed consisting of alfalfa and 15% locoweed, and five control ewes were fed pelleted alfalfa.
(11) More efficient use of ME for growth by animals fed alfalfa compared with orchardgrass may be related to differences in digestible OM composition, load of digestive tract content, and composition of absorbed nutrients.
(12) Initiation of polypeptide synthesis in a cell-free system of Escherichia coli directed by alfalfa mosaic virus RNA 4 was studied by using either fMet-tRNA or Ac-Phe-tRNA as initiator tRNA.
(13) Holstein and crossbred steers fed alfalfa haylage had significantly lower average daily gain, feed efficiency, dressing percentage, and empty body fat and required more days on feed to reach slaughter end points, but had higher total feed energy intake available for production.
(14) Apparent digestibilities of DM, OM, CP, neutral detergent solubles and permanganate lignin were higher (P less than .01) and digestibilities of NDF and ADF, hemicellulose and cellulose were lower (P less than .01) for steers consuming alfalfa compared to orchardgrass silage.
(15) Total mixed diets containing 25% corn silage, 25% alfalfa hay, and 50% of respective concentrate mixtures were fed individually wk 4 through 16 postpartum; pretreatment (wk 3 postpartum), milk production, and composition data were used as covariates.
(16) We have previously shown that an ndvA mutant exhibited reduced motility and formed small, white, empty nodules on alfalfa roots.
(17) Alfalfa and PIB alone, and synergistically, decrease total small-bowel lipid synthesis, specifically that of FA.
(18) Alfalfa plants of a resistant, a susceptible and a highly susceptible strains were grown in unlimed soil at pH 5.8 and in limed one at pH 6.9 and inoculated by the pathogens of vascular wilt, Corynebacterium insidiosum and Verticillium albo-atrum.
(19) The six silage treatments were untreated corn silage (low nitrogen); untreated corn silage and untreated alfalfa silage (1:1); untreated corn silage and formaldehyde and formic acid-treated alfalfa silage (1:1); ammonia-treated corn silage (low nitrogen); treated corn silage and untreated alfalfa silage (1:1); or treated corn silage and treated alfalfa silage (1:1).
(20) In Experiment 2, 17 mature Holstein cows were used in an identical design except that alfalfa haylage was used as the forage.
Breed
Definition:
(v. t.) To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.
(v. t.) To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster.
(v. t.) To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up.
(v. t.) To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease.
(v. t.) To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.
(v. t.) To raise, as any kind of stock.
(v. t.) To produce or obtain by any natural process.
(v. i.) To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.
(v. i.) To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth.
(v. i.) To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.
(v. i.) To raise a breed; to get progeny.
(n.) A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance.
(n.) Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities.
(n.) A number produced at once; a brood.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Department of Herd Health and Ambulatory Clinic of the Veterinary Faculty (State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) has developed the VAMPP package for swine breeding farms.
(2) Angus (A), Charolais (C), Hereford (H), Limousin (L), and Simmental (S) breeds were included in deterministic computer models simulating integrated cow-calf-feedlot production systems.
(3) Affected dogs were from ten breeds and their average age was eight years.
(4) History contains numerous examples of government secrecy breeding abuse.
(5) Over the same period, breeding in drums dropped from 14%-25% to 4.7%, even though the drums were not treated or covered.
(6) The results of this study suggested that there are differences in hormone concentrations that are related to size rather than being the result of differences in physiological maturity of different breeds of cattle.
(7) Heart rates were obtained simultaneously from FM radio transmitters and heart rate monitors externally mounted on unanesthetized and unrestrained mixed-breed goats.
(8) The major plasma lipoprotein of both breeds was high density lipoprotein (HDL) with some low density lipoprotein (LDL) and no very low density lipoprotein (VLDL).
(9) The genetic management of the African green monkey breeding colony was discussed in relation to the difference in distribution of phenotypes of M and ABO blood groups between the parental (wild-originated) and the first filial (colony-born) populations.
(10) On land, the pits' stagnant pools of water become breeding grounds for dengue fever and malaria.
(11) A model is proposed for the study of plant breeding where the self-fertilization rate is of importance.
(12) Urea was determined by means of diacetyl monoxim in the blood cells of 80 cockerels of the initial breed White Leghorn, commercial hybrid Primant.
(13) Beyond 20 mo, weights were adjusted to a constant condition score within breed of sire.
(14) A comparative study was performed for isoelectric and electrophoretic spectra blood serum albumin of parental breeds of chickens and their heterosis hybrids --broiler cocks.
(15) A higher ratio of excitatory to inhibitory neurotransmitter amino acids was always found in all the CNS regions studied in the aggressive breed.
(16) Bactrian camels (63 female female, 8 male male) were used in the breeding season to determine the factors that will induce ovulation.
(17) All the flies were collected from a breeding site inside an abandoned cement building.
(18) In Chinese Meishan pig embryonic mortality appears relatively low compared to European breeds.
(19) Thanks to the groundbreaking technology and heavy investment of a new breed of entertainment retailers offering access services, we are witnessing a revolution in the entertainment industry, benefitting consumers, creators and content owners alike.” ERA acts as a forum for the physical and digital retail sectors of music, and represents over 90% of the of the UK’s entertainment retail market.
(20) Experimentally, the newborn and juvenile matured white A breeded mice of both sexes were used.