(n.) A tree (Terminalia latifolia) of Jamaica, the wood of which is used for boards, scantling, shingles, etc; -- sometimes called the almond tree, from the shape of its fruit.
Example Sentences:
(1) According to Weir, five conifer species account for 88% of all England’s softwood forests and five broadleaf species make up over 72% of its hardwood woodlands.
(2) But the planting of new woods on open land, and conversion of broadleaf woodlands to conifers, has been a trend in Britain since Victorian times.
(3) • Felsham Road, Bradfield St George, Bury St Edmund's goodrobert Chopwell Wood, Rowlands Gill, Tyne and Wear Chopwell Wood is a conifer and mixed broadleaf wood.
(4) The enzyme from tolerant broadleaf species (spinach and mung bean) was much less sensitive to these herbicides (Kis values varied from 16 to 515 microM).
(5) John William's Broadleaf) and Antirrhinum (Antirrhinum majus) whereas stroma-freed chloroplasts, which have lost the swellability are not agglutinated despite the fact that antibodies to neoxanthin are specifically absorbed.
(6) With luck, the panel may even come up with a positive vision, including boosting employment in forestry and forest crafts, protecting and restoring ancient woodlands, and planting more native and broadleaf woods.
(7) The chlorophyll content and the fluorescence induction kinetics at two wavelengths (690 nm and 735 nm) have been measured in leaves of nine common broadleaf tree species during the autumnal chlorophyll breakdown.
(8) The consultation is silent, too, on the need to preserve programmes to replant former ancient woodlands, now under conifer, with broadleaf trees.
(9) The sites visited were subtropical broadleaf evergreen forests, with trees belonging to the families Fagaceae, Theaceae, Magnoliaceae, Lauraceae and Elaeocarpaceae.
(10) These primates ultimately colonized much of southern and eastern Asia where today some 15 to 19 species exist in habitats that range from broadleaf evergreen forests to agricultural and urbanized areas.
(11) The phenoxy herbicide 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) is widely used to control the growth of weeds and broadleaf plants.
(12) The knock-on is, if we’re spending money on that we’re not spending money on something else.” From coal mining to digital hub, tech startups are transforming Wales Read more Broadleaf Timber , a Carmarthenshire manufacturer and retailer of wood flooring, has been supported by the EU since it launched in 1999.
Cigar
Definition:
(n.) A small roll of tobacco, used for smoking.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chemical data are presented from a comparison study of the smoke of cigarettes and little cigars.
(2) Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver is amusing himself by trying to take a puff of a cigar in his saddle.
(3) Many businessmen like it.” At the entrance to Jiang’s swish showroom, customers are welcomed by posters of a cigar-smoking Winston Churchill and the Queen Mother, standing beside Land Rovers.
(4) In his memoirs, Reynolds recalls how, just before the Great Train Robbery took place, he had smoked a Montecristo No 2 cigar: "The thought ran through my mind: I have brought Cuba to Buckinghamshire."
(5) Larger cheap cigars and cigarillos would have to be sold in packages of four.
(6) In 1967-1969 survey the ratio of observed to expected concordance for smoking was higher among the monozygotic twins than among the dizygotic twins for those who had never smoked (overall rate ratio, 1.38; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.25 to 1.54), for former smokers (overall rate ratio, 1.59; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.35 to 1.85), for current cigarette smokers (overall rate ratio, 1.18; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.11 to 1.26), and for current cigar or pipe smokers (overall rate ratio, 1.60; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.22 to 2.06).
(7) Women smokers, cigar, and pipe smokers also face an increased risk for lung cancer.
(8) The proportion of nicotine in the mainstream smoke delivered to the smoker's mouth was greater than that observed for cigarettes, but the proportion of nicotine in the cigar smoke which was retained by the smoker was about the same.
(9) Social changes going on in the society were reflected in choice of substance forms by younger people as compared to their elders (e.g., cigarettes vs pipes or cigars, heroin vs opium, manufactured vs village-produced alcohol).
(10) We've already done it, says his cigar-smoking colleague.
(11) The cancer of cigar smokers is more often a central lesion than a peripheral one (p less than 0.025).
(12) The cigar smokers usually had sqcc (p less than 0.0005).
(13) The TV ad campaign features the Sapeurs – men who make the transformation from farmers, taxi drivers and labourers to cigar-wielding gentlemen dressed to the nines in bowler hats and tailored suits – of the Republic of the Congo capital Brazzaville coming together after a day's work.
(14) He then brought further drinks – four gin and tonics, a champagne cocktail, and even a £15 Romeo and Julieta cigar.
(15) The absorption of nicotine from cigars was measured in 7 male subjects who each smoked a single small cigar containing 14C-nicotine.
(16) Primary cigar smokers had a much lower mean carboxyhaemoglobin concentration (0.93%), and only 10.3% had concentrations greater than 1.7%.
(17) We conclude that carbon monoxide exposure from cigar and cigarette smoke is a frequent cause of an elevated red-cell volume or a reduced plasma volume (or both).
(18) Large cigar-shaped inclusions (designated type 1) and smaller ovoid inclusions (designated type 2) were purified from cell lysates, using differential centrifugation in discontinuous glycerol gradients and isopycnic density gradient centrifugation in sodium diatrizoate.
(19) Different inhalation practices were observed according to smoking habits: while among exclusive cigarette smokers 29.8% never inhaled the smoke, among exclusive cigar and exclusive pipe users these percentages were 89.5% and 86.9 respectively.
(20) Occasionally, nonclear cells were elongated, with a centrally located cigar-shaped nucleus.