What's the difference between coniferous and wellingtonia?

Coniferous


Definition:

  • (a.) Bearing cones, as the pine and cypress.
  • (a.) Pertaining to the order Coniferae, of which the pine tree is the type.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is suggested that high corticosterone levels are involved in the emigration of juveniles out of the coniferous forest.
  • (2) The size of such immune stratum characterizes the activity of natural foci: the largest immune stratum (25.4%) exists among the population of regions with broad-leaved forests, this stratum is somewhat less (12.2-13.2%) in regions with combined coniferous and broad-leaved forest, in regions with different combinations of broad-leaved forests and steppes, as well as mountain forests.
  • (3) The most dangerous foci of TBE were found to be located in the southern Okhotsk region grown with dark coniferous forests.
  • (4) The high northern latitudes are warming more rapidly than other parts of the Earth, with climate models predicting a northward shift of Arctic vegetation that will see the boreal biome (coniferous forest across North America and Eurasia) migrate into what is currently tundra (treeless plains of the Arctic).
  • (5) Either dry or humit warm-air inhalations with coniferous oil additives were prescribed depending on the type of sillness.
  • (6) This paper concerns the microbiological part of an investigation, the goal of which is to describe the biological changes in coniferous forest soil upon clear-cutting in a northern (66 degrees 20'N) moraine area where reforestation after clear-cutting had been met with difficulty.
  • (7) Exposure to terpenes and other heating products of coniferous woods was significantly associated with a risk of respiratory cancer when the duration of exposure exceeded five years.
  • (8) Two populations of Apodemus sylvaticus, one in deciduous woodland and another in coniferous forest in Co. Down, Northern Ireland, were trapped at monthly intervals over 33 months.
  • (9) The geographical variability of the population of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus in the northern part of the zone of combined coniferous and broad-leaved forests was established; this variability was manifested by higher virulence and homogeneity of TBE virus strains, as shown in experiments on white mice receiving the virus extraneurally, in comparison with the southern part of the zone and by higher virus carriership of the ticks Ixodes persulcatus.
  • (10) Therefore, the contamination of the mushrooms in the coniferous forest of Koralpenblick (1000 m) is higher than in the mixed forest at the Rosenberg around Graz at approx.
  • (11) Elevated values at other times in coniferous areas may have been related to the consumption of epiphytic lichens.
  • (12) Glover says the commission is not a guardian of our woods, having "for mostĀ of its existence ... gone about ripping up ancient forests and heathlands and covering them in industrial coniferous monoculture".
  • (13) Lignins of coniferous timber proved most effective.
  • (14) Voles from wet coniferous habitats contained concentrations of 137Cs twenty- to fiftyfold higher than voles from deciduous habitats.
  • (15) Clemens) that has ravaged the coniferous softwoods of eastern Canada and the United States.
  • (16) The study was concerned with the influence of lignins of leaf-bearing and coniferous timber and 22 model compounds (lignin components) on nitrosation of dimethylamine, amidopyrine and morpholine in human gastric juice.
  • (17) Altogether, 17.8 thousand mosquitoes were examined which were collected in June-August, 1985, in the light and dark coniferous subzones of mid-taiga.
  • (18) The most expressive decrease of humoral immunity was noted in middle-aged people living in the subzone of broad-leaved and coniferous forests and forest steppe.
  • (19) They are more effective enriched by coniferous plants which contain ingredients able to absorb and transport these groups of environmental pollutants in the organism.
  • (20) The method of molecular hybridization of nucleic acids (MHNA) is compared to the traditional bioprobe technique in the study of virus carriership of I. persulcatus ticks collected in the South and in the North of the area of coniferous and broad-leaved forests in the Khabarovsk Territory.

Wellingtonia


Definition:

  • (n.) A name given to the "big trees" (Sequoia gigantea) of California, and still used in England. See Sequoia.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So, for example, our tiny garden has two London plane trees, and next door there is a Wellingtonia.

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