(n.) A tree or shrub bearing cones; one of the order Coniferae, which includes the pine, cypress, and (according to some) the yew.
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(1) Words included in this title include mistletoe, gerbil, acorn, goldfish, guinea pig, dandelion, starling, fern, willow, conifer, heather, buttercup, sycamore, holly, ivy, and conker.
(2) In our dog days this was a favoured spot, a conifer plantation where he could do no harm, a springy floored place without seasons where a wee up a tree was all he could leave behind.
(3) Differences in the rDNA content in Picea could contribute to the variation, in overall genome size, that has been observed within conifer species.
(4) Deciduous trees and conifers react differently to increased atmospheric CO2.
(5) The pollen grains of conifers are very weak allergens; their structure and function are different from those of the remaining flowering plants.
(6) The ability to grow in liquid media with D-xylose, xylan from decidous trees, and hemicelluloses from conifers was tested in 95 strains of 35 genera of yeasts and yeast-like organisms.
(7) With regard to an early diagnosis of defects within the photosynthetic system of conifers by air pollutants, we measured the chlorophyll fluorescence from microscopic parts of individual pine and spruce needles.
(8) The presence of the gidA gene on the chloroplast genomes of conifers may therefore be of significance with respect to the ability of these plants to synthesize chlorophyll in the dark.
(9) Similarities in linkage relationships among Scots pine, other pines, and other species within the Pinaceae support karyological research that suggests extensive conservation of the conifer genome.
(10) According to Weir, five conifer species account for 88% of all England’s softwood forests and five broadleaf species make up over 72% of its hardwood woodlands.
(11) Small numbers are present in algae, ferns, conifers, sponges, echinoderms, other marine animals, and arthropods.
(12) Conifers face axe to save British woodland Read more At the far side of the wood, spindly black-tipped ash seedlings began to appear, growing at the side of the path.
(13) Only the conifers were, as a group, unlikely to harbor INA bacteria.
(14) Dispersion of repetitive DNA by transposition, coupled with loss of the large inverted repeat, appears to have predisposed conifer cpDNA to a number of inversions.
(15) The size and number of aerial spray drops impinging on spruce budworm in its conifer forest habitat were determined by means of a new tracer method that uses fluorescent particles in a liquid spray.
(16) The evergreen Churchill Arms on Kensington Church Street becomes one enormous conifer each December.
(17) But the planting of new woods on open land, and conversion of broadleaf woodlands to conifers, has been a trend in Britain since Victorian times.
(18) • Felsham Road, Bradfield St George, Bury St Edmund's goodrobert Chopwell Wood, Rowlands Gill, Tyne and Wear Chopwell Wood is a conifer and mixed broadleaf wood.
(19) Much of the landscape is to be radically altered over the next 100 years as the Forestry Commission fells tens of millions of conifer trees to stimulate the growth of ash, beech, oak, hazel, field maple and other native broadleaved species.
(20) Higson’s first task in solving MK’s landscaping problem was “practical, rather ordinary gardening things”: planting semi-mature trees and fast-growing conifers to provide quick cover.
Redwood
Definition:
(n.) A gigantic coniferous tree (Sequoia sempervirens) of California, and its light and durable reddish timber. See Sequoia.
(n.) An East Indian dyewood, obtained from Pterocarpus santalinus, Caesalpinia Sappan, and several other trees.
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(1) I have had the awe-inducing pleasure of standing alone among the giant trees, both sequoias and redwoods, and hearing nothing but the chatter of the squirrels and the high wind in the tallest branches.
(2) The ability to use cyclitols as a sole source of carbon can explain the high cell densities of Klebsielleae in redwood water reservoirs and in redwood lumber.
(3) Redwoods are taller, but giant sequoias win for sheer mass: the General Sherman's trunk has a volume of 1,487 cubic metres and is estimated to weigh over 2,000 tonnes.
(4) Vicky Redwood, UK analyst at Capital Economics , said that once special factors were taken into account the economy had been "pretty flat" in the third quarter.
(5) Vicky Redwood, senior UK economist, Capital Economics August's UK Inflation Report echoes yesterday's message from the US Fed that interest rates are likely to stay very low for a long time yet .
(6) Redwood said: "Through meticulously drawing together specific information, the team has been able to refocus the timeline and now places more significance on events that night.
(7) Marketing any product will only take an organisation so far.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Vicki Hughes at work in the Redwood coffee house In much the same way that the craft beer phenomeneon has helped breathe some much-needed life into the dying pub trade, so it is that the independent or ‘artisan’ coffee shops appear to be reinventing the way people now take their caffeine.
(8) Detectives led by Redwood will meet with their Polícia Judiciária counterparts in Faro on Tuesday to discuss the request.
(9) Labour said the Commons education committee should hold an inquiry and Gove faced implicit criticism from his own party in the form of Tory backbencher John Redwood, who said he was "unsure of what is going on" and that it was "unfair" for exam criteria to change at the last moment.
(10) John Redwood appeared to criticise the government's plans recently when he attacked the "myths" of housing shortage on his blog.
(11) If there is any example that shows how ridiculous Redwood’s claims are, it is the Scottish referendum, when 16 and 17-year-olds were allowed to have a say.
(12) Redwood is leading the £5m British investigation into the suspected abduction of Madeleine.
(13) Lattes are now a daily part of running our business and an increasing proportion of our expenses go towards supporting the local coffee economy.” App developer Mark Brown favours Redwood and Mange Tout, both on Trafalgar Street.
(14) An atopic patient with adult onset of asthma due to sawdust from redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) is described.
(15) Fly to Cleveland Hopkins airport Stay at The Inn at Brandywine Falls , from $129 Gary Lewis, director of education, Geological Society of America Klamath River Overlook, Redwood NP , California People come here for the redwoods – the tallest trees on the planet – but, for me, the view from this overlook near the town of Requa is a spectacular reason to visit.
(16) Not just human existence but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly powerful process, which is natural selection, has managed to take the very simple facts of physics and chemistry and build them up to redwood trees and humans.
(17) In his blog last week, former Tory cabinet minister John Redwood – who Cameron has appointed to lead a review of competitiveness – drew an analogy with England's World Cup team to make the case for lower taxes on business and swingeing cuts to spending.
(18) A formulated preparation of trichosanthin (GLQ223, Pharmaceutical Development Group, Genelabs Inc., Redwood City, California, USA) has been shown to selectively inhibit HIV replication in vitro in lymphocytes and macrophages.
(19) As the former Tory leader and arch-Eurosceptic Iain Duncan Smith described Douglas Carswell as a backbench loner, Redwood said the "so-called eight" had been plucked from the dining list of the Ukip donor Stuart Wheeler who used to support the Tories.
(20) July 6, 2016 John Redwood, a leading Eurosceptic, expressed hope that Labour’s motion “would not be opposed”, though the opposition day debate and vote is non-binding and has no effect on government policy Burnham, whose wife is Dutch, said the issue would “directly affect the lives of millions of people living in this country”.