(n.) An American tree of the genus Populus or poplar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States.
Example Sentences:
(1) Culicoides byersi, whose larval habitat was previously unknown, was reared from a cottonwood tree hole.
(2) The fire led to the evacuations of a church camp off Lake Elizabeth and a forest service campground called Cottonwood, Judy said.
(3) The elk were free to strip the landscape of willow, aspen and cottonwood, which was bad for beavers.
(4) Joseph O’Shaughnessy, 45, Cottonwood, Arizona Joseph O’Shaughnessy.
(5) Pollen extracts of Box Elder, Willow and Hickory elicited the highest allergic reactions, Oak, Birch, Sycamore, Black Walnut and Poplar more moderate reactions, while allergens from Cottonwood, Maple, Elm and White Ash were less reactive.
(6) To get my life back.” So far only one Utah police department – Cottonwood Heights, a small town in Salt Lake County – has equipped officers with Naloxone.
(7) From June through August, Utah's famous canyon country is hot and crowded, but visit in the autumn, winter or spring and you'll find pockets of desert solitude among the sunny yellow cottonwoods, snow-covered red rocks and colourful spring wildflowers.
(8) Both inter- and intraspecific polymorphisms were detected in these cottonwood trees.
(9) · An eight-day holiday joining the Cottonwood Ranch Horse and Cattle drive starts from £1,040 per person including full board, transfers, taxes and gratuities.
(10) Three women who had spent the day at the nearby Cottonwood Hot Springs told us that they just had to pop in to show him around.
(11) Only two – Black Rock and Cottonwood – provide running water, and none offers an RV hookup.
(12) Tent and RV camping is available at the Cottonwood campsite.
(13) White fluffs from a cottonwood tree drift slowly across the sky like cartoonish snowflakes.
(14) Carbon dioxide traps were spaced along a 450 m transect perpendicular to Poso Creek to determine female attraction to traps placed in 5 different vegetation substrates: 1) open hilltop with sparse growth of grasses and saltbush, 2) open pasture with sparse growth of saltbush, 3) peripheral understory of mule fat, 4) shaded understory of mule fat, and 5) open canopy 5 m above ground in willow and cottonwood trees.
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.