(n.) A plant of different species of the genus Trifolium; as the common red clover, T. pratense, the white, T. repens, and the hare's foot, T. arvense.
Example Sentences:
(1) The clover constituents chiefly incriminated for these effects are glycosides of the isoflavone derivatives genistein and its 4'-methyl ether biochanin-A, daidzein and its 4'-methyl ether formononetin, and pratensein; coumestrol and its 3'- and 4'-methyl ethers account for the estrogenic activity of alfalfa.
(2) The highest level of contamination with fungi was observed in the concentrate feed mixture followed by clover hay and rice straw.
(3) These natural matrix materials included samples of milk (containing 2 different levels of radioactivity), soil, air filters and clover.
(4) The presented results proof in tendency that oilseed-rape (00-rape seed), wheat, and barley as green plants can contribute in clostridial toxicosis in hares, whereas grass and beets are involved only partially, and clover is practically completely atoxigenic.
(5) We conclude that the structure of the acidic EPS does not control host-specific nodulation of white clover, hairy vetch, and beans for the strains of R. leguminosarum tested here.
(6) Together with biochemical and genetic data, these clones have been used to characterize the Li locus which controls linamarase activity in white clover.
(7) Southern blot analysis of Hind III digested genomic DNA shows that the white clover genome contains three genes with homology to the linamarase cDNA and that at least two of these genes segregate independently.
(8) This clover was chopped, dried, and formulated at 45% into an otherwise purified diet and fed to six guinea pigs for 90 days.
(9) Studies with monovalent antigen-binding fragments of anti-clover root antibody and Azotobacter vinelandii hybrid transformants carrying the unique antigenic determinant suggest that these polysaccharides bind R. trifolii to the clover root hair tips which contain trifoliin.
(10) Alfalfa, red clover, orchardgrass and timothy were harvested in the vegetative stage, wilted and stored as hay, or ensiled in small batch silos (20 kg) at 60, 40 or 20% (direct cut) dry matter and were analyzed for compositional differences.
(11) RNA-dependent RNA polymerase activities were detected in purified particles of white clover cryptic viruses 1 and 2.
(12) Anomalous nodulation of Trifolium subterraneum (subterranean clover) roots by Rhizobium leguminosarum 1020 was examined as a model of modified host-specificity in a Rhizobium-legume symbiosis.
(13) The agglutinins from these legumes were recognized by antibodies raised against the agglutinins of alfalfa and sweet clover.
(14) The soil reaction (pH) was not noteworthy affected by application of clover or grass residues.
(15) Comparative analysis of various copies of these repeated sequences, from R. trifolii (the clover symbiont) and R. meliloti (the alfalfa symbiont), reveals the presence of domains of intra- and interspecific conservation within the promoter regions.
(16) The frequency of piperacillin inactivation according to the clover-leaf test was significantly higher among the strains with synergism than among all the others (p less than 0.02).
(17) Charles Clover of the Financial Times , who tried to protect her, was pushed, thrown to the floor and kicked, and Channel 4 correspondent Jonathan Miller was punched.
(18) ), 2) tall fescue-red clover (Trifolium pratense L.), or 3) tall fescue-alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) or were barn-fed, 4) tall fescue hay, 5) orchardgrass (Dactylis glomerata L.)-alfalfa hay, or 6) tall fescue silage from late October to early April during each of 5 yr.
(19) Clover's personal portable inhaler is described and illustrated.
(20) The complete nucleotide sequence of red clover necrotic mosaic virus (RCNMV) RNA-1 has been determined.
Shamrock
Definition:
(n.) A trifoliate plant used as a national emblem by the Irish. The legend is that St. Patrick once plucked a leaf of it for use in illustrating the doctrine of the trinity.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I have a fond memory of sitting in one of the dressing rooms, talking about Ireland in the 80s, and her showing me as many of her shamrock tattoos as possible.
(2) The reverse of the new coin shows the English rose, Welsh leek, Scottish thistle and Northern Irish shamrock emerging from one stem within a royal coronet – a design created by 15-year-old schoolboy David Pearce, who won a competition to create the image.
(3) The models included are: Richter silver rings (1909), Ota steel ring (1934), Hall-Stone ring (1962), Margulies sprial, Lippes loop, Birnberg bow, Zipper ring (Chile), Ahmed Ragab ring (Cairo), Antigon (Denmark), Schroeder (Sweden), Comet (U.S.), wing (Japan), Y (Japan), Majzlin steel spring (U.S.), Soonawala (India), Szontagh ring (Hungary), Yusei ring (Japan), Ahmed triangle (U.S.), Appleby (England, Holland), Marco butterfly (U.S.), Dana Super and Special bows (Czechoslovakia), Baudeloque, Spria ring (Japan), Beogradska spirala (Yugoslavia), Makhlouf (Egypt), Pathfinder ring (U.S.), heart (Boston), Saf-T-Coil (U.S.), M Pharmatex, in Rislan polyamide (France), Omega (Switzerland), Cohen Corolle (Paris), Dalkon shield, Steel ring, Zipper 7, Cooper T, Tatum T, Hall triangle, Davis icon, Marco Lem, Chaft M, and Burdick shamrock.
(4) Farrell was born in Dublin, in 1976, the youngest of four, to a father who played football for Shamrock Rovers – a dream that his youngest son shared, for a while at least.
(5) Glentoran Linfield Shamrock Rovers Which Caribbean Island was the first to qualify for a World Cup?
(6) The Irish Football Association stood by the former Brechin City and Shamrock Rovers manager.
(7) Junctions are formed from a single shamrock-shaped molecule, which contains 5', 3', or internal labels.
(8) Shamrock Rovers will play Luxembourg’s Progres Niedercorn while Linfield tackle NSI Runavik of the Faroe Islands.
(9) Records from June 1965 show insertions of 212 Lippes Loops, 1740 Shamrock devices, and 1900 Dalkon Shields.
(10) A combination of end-labeled and internally labeled shamrock molecules has been used to demonstrate that all of the scission is due to coordinated cleavage of DNA on opposite sides of the junction, 3' to the branch point.
(11) We have confirmed that the scission products are those of resolution, rather than nicking of individual strands, by using shamrock junction molecules formed from a single oligonucleotide strand.
(12) I met her at the Shamrock Tattoo shop on Sunset Boulevard.
(13) When Lindsay moved into Gracie Mansion on New Year's Day 1966, a tiny shamrock was lying on his desk.
(14) The Shamrock device was originated by the senior author in 1967.
(15) Round the corner, above the shops on Novy Arbat, the Shamrock bar claims to be Moscow’s oldest Irish pub, serving up pints of Harp or drams of Jamesons since 1991.
(16) Then you turn the corner and see another, and another … It’s green shamrocks galore in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar, where so-called Irish pubs dominate the bar scene.
(17) Yet once you’re past the bamboo and palm thatch frontage, this waterfront venue is suitably dark and smoky, with shamrocks decorating the menu, classic rock posters on the walls and a blissfully Marley-free soundtrack of jazz, blues and rock.