(n.) A place in which a collection of rare trees and shrubs is cultivated for scientific or educational purposes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cross will now move to the Royal British Legion’s national memorial arboretum in Staffordshire.
(2) In the UK, war widows attended a service of remembrance at the National Memorial Arboretum's Millennium chapel to mark the anniversary.
(3) His wealth is reported to be somewhere in the order of £250m, and has bought him all the luxuries and pleasures of old money, in particular his beloved 50-acre arboretum, which he considers his legacy.
(4) Tony Kirkham, head of the arboretum at Kew Gardens, which has 14,000 trees, told the Guardian a complete ban was needed on imports of any plants that threatened a species, and a one-year quarantine was needed for all plants coming into Britain.
(5) In Britain the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, the UK's centre for remembrance will be holding a day of commemoration including a service of remembrance in its chapel and a wreath-laying at the Normandy Veteran's Memorial.
(6) The Bastion memorial wall at the National Arboretum in Staffordshire will be built with £300,000 from the £35m armed forces covenant (Libor) fund.
(7) Photograph: Alamy Tyntesfield Distance from junction 2½ miles from 19 (southbound); 6 miles from 20 (northbound) Follow signs for Bristol (off B3128) This mysterious Victorian gothic revival house and estate has layers of terraced lawns with flower-filled borders and a hidden kitchen garden, plus parkland with an arboretum and dens, all surrounded by lush Somerset hills.
(8) Greenwood travelled to Penderecki's home outside Krakow, with its hundreds of acres of arboretum, and this time, Penderecki knew who he was.
(9) The emotional service at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire was attended by hundreds of current and former service personnel and their families.
(10) Other lots included a cup of tea with Lord Heseltine, plus a tour of his arboretum.
(11) A sustained campaign by relatives of some of the men led to the granting of a collective pardon on 8 November 2006 and a Shot at Dawn memorial in their honour now stands in the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire .
(12) The Bastion Memorial Wall at the National Arboretum in Staffordshire will be built with £300,000 from the £35m armed forces covenant (Libor) fund.
(13) Sweet chestnut is being touted as the replacement for the English oak in parkland – the Westonbirt Arboretum is currently planting a collection with climate change in mind.
(14) Three decades after Argentinian troops seized Port Stanley, the capital of the south Atlantic islands, Falklands veterans and widows of those killed gathered at a service of remembrance at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.
(15) Tony Kirkham, head of the arboretum at Kew Gardens, which has 14,000 trees and has seen many attacked in the past few years, said some of the most serious threats came from the oak processionary moth .
(16) Casa Vina de Alcantara ( vinadealcantara .com ; doubles €160) is an elegant house in an arboretum, with 10 rooms and a pool, a short drive from the town centre Marathon du Médoc, France 10-11 September Thought marathons were all about sports drinks and energy bars?
(17) The oaks will be planted at Kew Gardens, William Brookes school in Much Wenlock, the Forestry Commission's National Arboretum at Westonbirt in Gloucestershire, and at the UPS London Central Centre in Camden.
(18) Patients of the Brandon Street practice in Leicester and the Arboretum surgery in Nottingham have made the same accusation: that the Practice plc is walking away from contracts in areas of high deprivation where it finds it cannot make money.
Herbarium
Definition:
(n.) A collection of dried specimens of plants, systematically arranged.
(n.) A book or case for preserving dried plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) Half a million objects are protected in these temperature controlled rooms: insects, shells, eggs, herbarium specimens, stuffed birds, skulls and bones.
(2) The Leech Book, the oldest known Anglo-Saxon herbarium, probably written in Winchester, circa A.D. 920, by Cyril Bald or at his special request, contains a short chapter on the surgical treatment of the cleft lip; this chapter apparently represents the first record in a medical manuscript of this treatment.
(3) In the present study, a herbarium specimen of C. bantianum (Torula bantiana Sacc.)
(4) Because diagnostic scales and scurf, or small scales, are easily lost in the process of collecting and preparing herbarium specimens of the new species, the potential for confusion among related species is increased.
(5) Aldehyde fixation and glycol methacrylate embedding were applied to herbarium specimens of fruits of the Compositae.
(6) Herbarium specimens of all except one of the 168 recognized species of Alyssum Linnaeus have been analysed for their nickel content in order to identify hyperaccumulators (greater than 1000 microgram per g dry mass) of nickel.
(7) After a general survey of botanical exploration in Amazonia in the past and a summary of the present situation, an account is given of the work carried out in the field and the herbarium is search of plant species of potential therapeutic interest.
(8) The technique gives good structural preservation and resolution even with 81-year-old herbarium material.
(9) The replicas can be stored like herbarium specimens for future use.
(10) Phylogenetic relationships were derived using the parasimony methods DNAPARS and PROTPARS of Felsenstein ("PHYLIP Manual Version 3.4, "University Herbarium, Univ.
(11) Herbarium specimens and living cultures of Xylohypha nigrescens, the type species of the genus Xylohypha, were also compared with those of C. trichoides and other pathogenic Cladosporium species.
(12) Grains from plants are tiny, but have distinct shapes that the scientists identified by comparing them with a collection at the Smithsonian's herbarium.
(13) Plant organs, including stems, rhizomes, leaves, roots, petals, sporangia and flower pedicels obtained from dried herbarium specimens of a variety of plant species have been softened with Aerosol OT and subsequently dehydrated in a graded series of acetones and embedded in Spurr's resin.
(14) A combination of thin-layer chromatography, gas-liquid chromatography, ultraviolet spectroscopy and mass spectrometry techniques for the alkaloid screening of herbarium samples of the genus Uncaria (Rubiaceae) is described.
(15) Borelli, prepared by Saccardo, was compared with a herbarium specimen and a living type culture of C. triochoides by light and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and was found to be dissimilar.
(16) were harvested and sun-dried for herbarium deposit.
(17) Inspection of field collections and herbarium specimens has revealed that such infections are widespread in grasses.
(18) Reports of accidental injuries submitted to the authors, through either medical or other sources, and to the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide and State Herbarium of South Australia, were studied and compared with existing literature; in some cases the effects were confirmed experimentally.