(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.
Trefoil
Definition:
(n.) Any plant of the genus Trifolium, which includes the white clover, red clover, etc.; -- less properly, applied also to the nonesuch, or black medic. See Clover, and Medic.
(n.) An ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, or foils.
(n.) A charge representing the clover leaf.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results obtained with the bifoil balloon were better than with the other types of balloon catheter, with an increase in aortic area of + 118% vs. + 74% (monofoil) and + 76% (trefoil) (P less than 0.05).
(2) The compounds which are found in the whole trefoil embryo (T), the lobeless part (LL), and the polar lobe (PL) respectively, and the mean quantities (nmol.
(3) The Trefoil balloon was then used in 3 children with congenital valvular stenoses (2 pulmonary and 1 aortic stenosis).
(4) Forages included alfalfa, cicer milkvetch, birdsfoot trefoil and sainfoin with respective CP concentrations of 26.0, 28.7, 26.3 and 20.0%.
(5) To ensure continued transvalvular blood flow the authors have developed the "Trefoil balloon" consisting of three identical angioplasty balloons mounted on a single catheter.
(6) Nails with conventional strength and in trefoil leaf formation are superior to other designs.
(7) Indirect immunofluorescent staining with antiserum raised using a synthetic peptide based on the predicted C-terminal sequence of this protein, designated intestinal trefoil factor, demonstrated that it is primarily expressed and secreted onto the intestinal surface by goblet cells, suggesting that it may be an important component of intrinsic mechanisms for defending mucosal integrity.
(8) Dental hypoplasia correlated with a small interpedicular diameter at L1, L2 and L3, and Harris lines with a small midsagittal diameter at L1, L3 and L5, a small area at L5 and a more trefoil canal at L4 and L5.
(9) But Oates thinks the common blue should be doing better; its food plant, bird’s-foot-trefoil , will grow in gently cut garden lawns, its caterpillars can also feed on agricultural clovers in “improved” grassland.
(10) A new balloon (Trefoil balloon) was developed to avoid complete interruption of blood flow during percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty.
(11) The results of trefoil valvuloplasty in twelve patients with pulmonary stenosis compared favorably to those of patients treated with single balloons.
(12) Total nonstructural carbohydrate digestion tended to be highest for sainfoin and birdsfoot trefoil, whereas structural carbohydrate digestion was highest (P less than .05) for alfalfa and cicer milkvetch.
(13) In 31 consecutive patients with trefoil-bifoil balloon valvuloplasty, there was no inhospital mortality.
(14) Antibody to purified trifoliin binds to the root hair region of 24-h-old clover seedlings, but does not bind to alfalfa, birdsfoot trefoil or joint vetch.
(15) BAV can be performed using a single balloon (one balloon, one shaft), multiple balloons (multiple balloons, multiple shafts), or complex balloon configurations (bifoil or trefoil balloons on a single shaft) by the retrograde (femoral or brachial) or antegrade (transseptal) approach.
(16) Under fluoroscopy, the balloon was completely inflated then the contrast medium immediately withdrawn, a procedure of seven to 23 seconds with the single-balloon catheter and five to nine seconds with the trefoil catheter.
(17) Ammonia-N concentration in the effluent and CP degradation tended to be lowest with the sainfoin diet and highest with the birdsfoot trefoil diet.
(18) The Trefoil balloon is a promising new device for percutaneous valvuloplasty and, perhaps, coronary angioplasty.
(19) We used a single balloon (Trefoil 3 X 12 mm) in eight patients and two balloons in 12 (Trefoil 3 X 10 mm + 19 mm).
(20) Single (25 mm in diameter, trefoil 3 x 12 mm, bifoil 2 x 19 mm) and double (18 and 15 mm, 18 and 18 mm, 18 and 20 mm) balloons were used in 24 and 52 patients respectively.