What's the difference between burra and caltrop?

Burra


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Similarly Burra Foods, a dairy processor and exporter in Victoria’s south Gippsland region, has recovered 60m litres of water a year from the evaporating process used to produce powdered milk.
  • (2) The parental smoking rate (60.4% in Burra, 57.4% in Kingston) is much higher than the national figure reported by the Bureau of Statistics in 1977 (35.9%).
  • (3) Analyses of data showed the prevalence of reactive airways in children to be 21.3% in Burra and 22.0% in Kingston.
  • (4) David Bintley’s Flowers of the Forest uses music by Arnold and Britten to evoke the battles and the losses in Scotland’s dark history, as well as the tartan and heather romanticism of its public image; Kenneth MacMillan’s La Fin du Jour focuses on the bubble of denial occupied by Europe’s Bright Young Things in the years leading up to the second world war; and there’s Gillian Lynn’s recreation of Miracle in the Gorbals, the revolutionary vision of life and death in a Glasgow ghetto, choreographed by Robert Helpmann in 1944 with designs by Edward Burra.
  • (5) These values were the same as results obtained from an earlier pilot study in Burra and similar to results from Wagga Wagga (19.6%) and Auckland (20.1%) but higher than from Belmont (15.5%) and Villawood (15.3%).
  • (6) This report describes the cross-sectional analyses of the results obtained from the first year of a longitudinal study designed to investigate the natural history of bronchial hyperresponsiveness in association with reported respiratory symptoms in children attending the Burra and Kingston Community Schools.
  • (7) The term is derived from burra , the Albanian for "man".

Caltrop


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Caltrap

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pregnant ewes and their fetuses were chronically catheterized using aseptic procedures under general anaesthesia, and the ewes were then fed either lucerne chaff alone, or lucerne mixed with dried plant material obtained from one of three forb species, Tribulus terrestris (caltrop), Abelmoschus ficulneus (native rosella) or Ipomoea lonchophylla (cowvine), from 103-112 days gestation until term.

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