(n.) An ament; a species of inflorescence, consisting of a slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar, and (as to the staminate flowers) in the chestnut, oak, hickory, etc. -- so called from its resemblance to a cat's tail. See Illust. of Ament.
Example Sentences:
(1) The extracts with the broadest spectra of activity were prepared from: Alnus rubra bark and catkins, Fragaria chiloensis leaves, Moneses uniflora aerial parts, and Rhus glabra branches.
(2) Dot immunoblotting of crude extracts of various aerial parts of birch trees, using patient serum rich in birch pollen IgE, showed IgE-binding activity in leaves, buds, twigs, seeds, bark, and old male catkins.
(3) Ginger, pippali (native to India; also called dried catkins), pepper, and garlic showed the highest activity followed by asafetida, mustard, and horse-gram (native to India).
(4) The current 2012 edition maintained the changes, and instead of catkin, cauliflower, chestnut and clover, today’s edition of the dictionary, which is aimed at seven-year-olds starting Key Stage Two, features cut and paste, broadband and analogue.
(5) Hazel catkins were profuse, catching out hay fever sufferers late in the month.
(6) • Hazel catkins, which usually appear in March and April, appeared early in autumn at Washington Old Hall, Tyne and Wear, for the second year running • Mammals generally entered the winter in good condition, especially badgers, wild deer, and the wild sheep and goats in Cheddar Gorge.
(7) You can also lobby your local council to get trees planted that are bee-friendly, such as hazel and alder whose catkins provide a vital source of pollen in the spring, when the bees need this protein to feed to their young, expanding colony.
(8) Mica flecks in ancient granite shone like gold dust in caramel-coloured streams, beech trees were decorated with delicately suspended catkins and the upland breezes infused with coconut-like scent from early flowering gorse.
Poplar
Definition:
(n.) Any tree of the genus Populus; also, the timber, which is soft, and capable of many uses.
(n.) The timber of the tulip tree; -- called also white poplar.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perched in a grove of poplars and with prayer flags stretching away on all sides, Muktinath is Nepal's second-most sacred site for Hindus after Pashupatinath , which in comparison lies rather forlornly at the end of Kathmandu's international airport runway.
(2) In the autumn large amounts of a major storage protein accumulate in the woody stem of poplar trees.
(3) The teenager, who went to Langdon Park School in Poplar, got eight grade As in subjects including maths, science, English literature, geography, religious studies and citizenship; and three B grades in English language, humanities and physical education.
(4) The only significant management change prior to illness was the feeding of poplar tree branches from a lowland area inhabited by skunks and raccoons.
(5) A qualitative analysis of the long-range nuclear Overhauser effects observed indicates that the backbone fold of spinach plastocyanin is very similar to that of poplar plastocyanin, whose structure has been solved by X-ray crystallography and differs in 22 of its 99 amino acid residues.
(6) These pentenyl caffeates proved to be the major sensitizers of propolis and of poplar bud secretion in our previous study.
(7) The complexity of propolis, its supposed anti-inflammatory effect due to flavonoids, and the sensitizing agents originating mainly from the poplar trees are discussed together with the cross-sensitization to balsam of Peru.
(8) The rats produced IgE antibodies to each of the allergens used (maple, willow, poplar, ash, oak, sycamore, hickory, walnut, birch, and elm), yet the allergens had extremely limited cross-reactivity.
(9) Makar, 31, was pronounced dead in the street near the All Saints Docklands light railway station in Poplar on Wednesday night, the Metropolitan police said.
(10) The near-ultraviolet (uv) absorption and CD spectra of parsley PC were found to be qualitatively similar to those of spinach, poplar, and lettuce PC, except for the near-uv CD spectrum of the reduced form at low pH (ca.
(11) To him it should reassert accountability, not least to local Labour electors, in the spirit of the Poplar and Clay Cross martyrs.
(12) Micropropagated shoots of three forest tree species, poplar (Populus tremula x P. alba), wild cherry (Prunus avium L.) and walnut (Juglans nigra x J. regia), were inoculated each with six different wild-type Agrobacterium strains.
(13) The prenyl ester and the phenylethyl ester of caffeic acid, formed in the bud excretion of poplar species, were shown recently to be the major contact allergens in bee-glue.
(14) Immunoglobulin M levels among patients were elevated in the borderline lepromatous and poplar lepromatous groups.
(15) The flavonoid aglycones occurring in poplar bud exudates, and hence also in propolis, are weak sensitizers which play only a minor role in propolis hypersensitivity.
(16) The influence of acetone extract vapours of pepper, poplar buds, linden and aspen was tested.
(17) The nucleotide sequence of the 3'-proximal 1328 nucleotides of poplar mosaic virus (PMV) was determined and shown to contain two large open reading frames (ORFs).
(18) on acidic and neutral ground; its frequency has locally increased by recultivation of slap-dumps and waste land with poplars.
(19) For example, plastocyanins from poplar, oleander, French bean, and spinach have their most intense feature at approximately 425 cm-1; azurins show greatest intensity at approximately 410 cm-1, stellacyanin and ascorbate oxidase at approximately 385 cm-1, and nitrite reductase at approximately 360 cm-1.
(20) Call the Midwife is based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth and – scripted by Heidi Thomas , who wrote Cranford – it tells the true story of a young midwife going into Poplar in the East End of London in the 1950s.