What's the difference between bombax and mallow?

Bombax


Definition:

  • (n.) A genus of trees, called also the silkcotton tree; also, a tree of the genus Bombax.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The bark, xylem of stem, and root of (1) Bombax malabarica DC.

Mallow


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Mallows

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Now recovering with relatives away from the Levels – which are likely to remain flooded for weeks, possibly even months – Mallows does not know when, or if, she will see her farmhouse again.
  • (2) Nuvacron residues on 45-day-old mallow were less on mallow than on cotton or beans.
  • (3) Sevin was higher in 1-h residues on cotton and beans than on mallow.
  • (4) The 1-hour residue was higher on younger bean leaves than on mallow and cotton with very few exceptions (nuvacron, malathion and sevin: 2.125, 11.75 and 95 ppm on cotton leaves; 2.25 and 145 ppm on Jew's mallow and 3.750, 32.500 and 250 ppm on common bean leaves, respectively).
  • (5) The Environment Agency expressed sympathy for Mallows and said it had tried to help her – but had so far decided against building banks around her property because of the cost, around £70,000.
  • (6) 1-h deposits of malathion were higher on mallow than on cotton or beans (nuvacron, malathion and sevin; 2.3, 200 and 140 ppm on cotton leaves, 1.90, 191.15 and 92.86 ppm on mallow leaves, 2.25, 21.5 and 137.5 ppm on common bean leaves, respectively).
  • (7) The empty dirt path stretched towards it, through wild mallow flowers and nodding daisies.
  • (8) The def in Mallow was found to be 5.15 and the Met Need Index 14%.
  • (9) Mallow did not retain insecticides as long as did cotton and beans.
  • (10) For Mallows the future is as murky as the floodwater that still lies a metre-deep in her farmhouse.
  • (11) Mallows is angry at the Environment Agency, believing it deliberately floods the moor – and thus her house – to protect others and argues it ought to buy her out if it will not or cannot keep her home dry.
  • (12) The water on the road to Mallows's home was so deep that firefighters had to leave their engine a mile away and haul a boat through the water to the front door.
  • (13) 295 5-year-old children were examined in Mallow, a non-fluoridated town in North Cork to ascertain the dental status of children commencing first level education.
  • (14) They decided the best way to get Mallows out would be to carry her out down the stairs and through the flooded ground floor.
  • (15) Residues as determined by bioassay using Daphnia or mosquito larvae were in agreement with each other in most cases except sevin residues at 1 h and 8 days after treatment of mallow.
  • (16) Mallows moved with her late husband David to the Somerset Levels in the early 70s and they raised their family there.
  • (17) Dysphagia for solids of some degree was seen postoperatively in 26 patients and this was also demonstrated by delay in transit of a marsh-mallow swallow test.
  • (18) The complex extract and the polysaccharide isolated from the roots of marsh mallow were tested for antitussive activity in unanaesthetized cats of both sexes.
  • (19) Back in spring after the second wettest April on record in Somerset, Mallows's home was flooded and she had to move out to rented accommodation in Glastonbury.
  • (20) A week after she was hoisted on to the shoulders of six firefighters and carried "like a coffin" through the floodwater from her remote Somerset farmhouse, 90-year-old Diana Mallows is still struggling to find the right words to sum up her feelings.

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