(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.
Leaf
Definition:
(n.) A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the influence of light; one of the parts of a plant which collectively constitute its foliage.
(n.) A special organ of vegetation in the form of a lateral outgrowth from the stem, whether appearing as a part of the foliage, or as a cotyledon, a scale, a bract, a spine, or a tendril.
(n.) Something which is like a leaf in being wide and thin and having a flat surface, or in being attached to a larger body by one edge or end; as : (a) A part of a book or folded sheet containing two pages upon its opposite sides. (b) A side, division, or part, that slides or is hinged, as of window shutters, folding doors, etc. (c) The movable side of a table. (d) A very thin plate; as, gold leaf. (e) A portion of fat lying in a separate fold or layer. (f) One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
(v. i.) To shoot out leaves; to produce leaves; to leave; as, the trees leaf in May.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dumplings could also be served pan-fried in browned butter and tossed with a bitter leaf salad and fresh sheep's cheese for a lighter, but equally delicious option.
(2) Subsequently the plant protein was partially purified from leaf extract.
(3) In autumn, leaf-heaps composted themselves on sunken patios, and were shovelled up by irritated owners of basement flats.
(4) Isolated nuclei from green leaf tissue of tomato plants infected with potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) were bound to microscope slides, fixed with formaldehyde and hybridized with biotinylated transcripts of cloned PSTVd cDNA.
(5) The nuclear membrane was highly deformed with a leaf-like profile in cross-section, possibly due to an interaction with the rod-like, condensed chromosomes.
(6) The mass of glycolic acid recovered from sunflower leaf tissue was proportional to the amount of tissue extracted.
(7) cDNA clones of potato virus X (PVXcp strain), potato virus Y (PVYo strain), potato leaf roll virus (PLRV) and potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTV) were used separately or combined for the detection of the corresponding RNAs in extracts of infected plants.
(8) Positive cDNA clones isolated from both a pea leaf and embryo lambda gt11 expression library using an antibody raised against the purified lipoamide dehydrogenase proved to be the product of a single gene.
(9) Betel leaf extract at the dose levels used in the present study did not affect the body weight gain among rats.
(10) Poison oak, ivy, and sumac dermatitis is a T-cell-mediated reaction against urushiol, the oil found in the leaf of the plants.
(11) Leaf TBC was usually third while fiber had the least TBC.
(12) Using this estimate, the pure Photosystem I emission spectrum was subtracted from the measured emission spectrum of a flashed leaf to give an emission spectrum representative of pure Photosystem II fluorescence at -196 degrees C. Emission spectra were also measured on flashed leaves which had been illuminated for several hours in continuous light.
(13) The effect of 50% methanolic extract (U-ext) from Bearberry leaf on immuno-inflammation was studied by contact dermatitis caused by picryl chloride (PC-CD) in mice.
(14) Several antisera from rabbits immunized with tobacco smoke components reacted by immunoprecipitation with tobacco smoke or leaf antigens.
(15) DNP treatment reduced ion absorption by leaf tissue.
(16) Instead, cell divisions are gradually restricted to the base of the leaf with localized sites of increased division at the preligule region.
(17) In the leaf-nosed bat, Macrotus californicus, a 4.5-month period of delayed early embryogenesis (October-March) precedes a 3.5-month period of normal embryogenesis (March-June).
(18) Plastic responses in leaf form resulting from ontogenetic or external influences are initiated very early in primordial development and are brought about by effects on the rate and direction of cell division and expansion in different regions of the primordium.
(19) Northern blot analysis of infected leaf tissue extracts revealed the presence of an oligomeric series of plus RNAs (of monomer size and greater) but minus RNAs were present only as high molecular weight species of heterogeneous size.
(20) And, hey, until Friday morning, most surveillance reform advocates were worried about the Senate ramming through the currently neutered version of the USA Freedom Act as its fig leaf of reform, before going back to business as usual and proposing bills that will give the NSA more power – not less.