(a.) Growing in bunches, or resembling a bunch; having tufts; as, the bird's bunchy tail.
(a.) Yielding irregularly; sometimes rich, sometimes poor; as, a bunchy mine.
Example Sentences:
(1) The microtubule-microfilament system of cells cultivated without serum as compared to cells cultured in presence of serum was significantly reduced concerning the number and length of microtubules as well as the diffuse, bunchy or reticular arrangement of the microfilaments.
(2) Banana bunchy top disease was transmitted from infected to healthy bananas by aphid inoculation and it was demonstrated that the small ssDNA was transmitted with the disease.
(3) A viroid has been isolated from tomato plants affected by Indian bunchy top disease of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.).
(4) Virus-like particles were purified from banana plants with banana bunchy top disease.
(5) One clone, pBT338, hybridized specifically (i) with sap extracts from plants infected with banana bunchy top virus (BBTV) but not with sap extracts from healthy plants and (ii) with the small ssDNA in nucleic acid extracts from infected plants and virus-like particles.
(6) After transmission of BBTV particles by aphids from a banana bunchy top disease-affected to an uninfected banana plant, the disease was induced and BBTV was detected by ELISA in symptomatic leaves only.
Chenille
Definition:
(n.) Tufted cord, of silk or worsted, for the trimming of ladies' dresses, for embroidery and fringes, and for the weft of Chenille rugs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Most of the rooms have 1950s furniture, chenille bedspreads, art deco touches and old-fashioned telephones.
(2) On scanning electron microscopy, the pulmonary artery endothelial surface in group 1 patients was "crinkled" or "corduroy-like", i.e., composed of narrow, even ridges; in groups 2 and 3, it was "cable-like", i.e., comprised of deep intertwined ridges; in group 4 it was "chenille" in texture, i.e., high ridges alternated with low, uneven, and twisted ones.