(a.) Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound.
(n.) Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground.
(n.) Plowed land.
(n.) Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season.
(n.) The plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season; as, summer fallow, properly conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds.
(n.) To plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dytiscidae, Anisoptera, and Zygoptera were more abundant in fallow or mature fields.
(2) The fallow-deer is less discussed because the low number of investigations.
(3) Repeat examination of blood from the three fallow deer for 30 days postexposure failed to reveal observable piro-plasms.
(4) The commission is also proposing that 30% of direct payments to farmers be "green" or reward those growing a greater variety of crops, leaving land fallow or extending hedgerows.
(5) ZTJ 151, S. saprophyticus SS 877, Enterococcus faecium EF1 and E. faecalis EFG2 were isolated from the rumen wall and contents of lambs, calves and fallow deer, Enterococcus gallinarum EG10 and E. avium EA12 were isolated from the caecum of Japanese quail.
(6) For example, improved farming practices, such as the use of cover crops on fallowed fields or wetland construction near streams and rivers, have the potential of reducing sediment and phosphorus concentration from fertilizer runoff.
(7) Similar inclusion bodies were also found in the ruminal epithelium of fallow deer subjected to overfeeding by supplementary food.
(8) There are queues at communal water tanks and the irrigated fields plump with crops abruptly give way to hard-baked soil forced to sit fallow.
(9) The HIT method was used to examine blood serums of the game in Moravia (roebuck, red deer, fallow deer, mouflon, wild boar, brown hare) for the presence of antibodies to arboviruses of these groups: alphavirus (Sindbis-SIN), flavivirus (West Nile-WN), tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) and Bunyamwera (Tahyna-TAH, Calovo-CVO).
(10) The humus synthesis processes were most active in the wheat and lucerne plots, they were less effective in the fallow and virgin soils.
(11) Four adult male fallow deer were investigated for 1-4 consecutive years to study the relationships between annual changes in testis volume, sperm quality and antler status.
(12) Weinstein knows how to push a movie all the way to the top and after a few fallow years he's rediscovered his magic touch and found the funds to put his money where his mouth is.
(13) Animal species included black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus), mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), sika deer (Cervus nippon nippon), fallow deer (Dama dama), and pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra americana).
(14) An adult, captive European spotted fallow deer (Cervus dama) was submitted for necropsy due to sudden death.
(15) Some lukewarm romances and underperforming comedies – Four Christmases, How Do You Know, Water for Elephants, This Means War – as well as the well-intentioned but flawed political thriller Rendition meant that the second half of the 2000s and early 2010s was a largely fallow period.
(16) The patient presented a polyvalent IgE sensitization in prick skin tests and RAST to several animals' dander and epithelia, but RAST inhibition experiments showed a cross-reactivity only between fallow deer and horse allergen extracts.
(17) A policy of "set aside", where farmers are paid to leave land fallow, has attempted to remedy this, but overproduction persists.
(18) Though fallow deer is considered very resistant to infectious diseases and parasites, diseases of different kind occur in enclosed pastures.
(19) These results provide good evidence of the correlation between low birthweight and perinatal mortality in fallow deer on Australian deer farms.
(20) The allele frequencies allow a clear discrimination between the hybrid population and the red deer population, whereas the fallow deer are fixed for the allele which is most common in red deer.
Mallow
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Mallows
Example Sentences:
(1) Now recovering with relatives away from the Levels – which are likely to remain flooded for weeks, possibly even months – Mallows does not know when, or if, she will see her farmhouse again.
(2) Nuvacron residues on 45-day-old mallow were less on mallow than on cotton or beans.
(3) Sevin was higher in 1-h residues on cotton and beans than on mallow.
(4) The 1-hour residue was higher on younger bean leaves than on mallow and cotton with very few exceptions (nuvacron, malathion and sevin: 2.125, 11.75 and 95 ppm on cotton leaves; 2.25 and 145 ppm on Jew's mallow and 3.750, 32.500 and 250 ppm on common bean leaves, respectively).
(5) The Environment Agency expressed sympathy for Mallows and said it had tried to help her – but had so far decided against building banks around her property because of the cost, around £70,000.
(6) 1-h deposits of malathion were higher on mallow than on cotton or beans (nuvacron, malathion and sevin; 2.3, 200 and 140 ppm on cotton leaves, 1.90, 191.15 and 92.86 ppm on mallow leaves, 2.25, 21.5 and 137.5 ppm on common bean leaves, respectively).
(7) The empty dirt path stretched towards it, through wild mallow flowers and nodding daisies.
(8) The def in Mallow was found to be 5.15 and the Met Need Index 14%.
(9) Mallow did not retain insecticides as long as did cotton and beans.
(10) For Mallows the future is as murky as the floodwater that still lies a metre-deep in her farmhouse.
(11) Mallows is angry at the Environment Agency, believing it deliberately floods the moor – and thus her house – to protect others and argues it ought to buy her out if it will not or cannot keep her home dry.
(12) The water on the road to Mallows's home was so deep that firefighters had to leave their engine a mile away and haul a boat through the water to the front door.
(13) 295 5-year-old children were examined in Mallow, a non-fluoridated town in North Cork to ascertain the dental status of children commencing first level education.
(14) They decided the best way to get Mallows out would be to carry her out down the stairs and through the flooded ground floor.
(15) Residues as determined by bioassay using Daphnia or mosquito larvae were in agreement with each other in most cases except sevin residues at 1 h and 8 days after treatment of mallow.
(16) Mallows moved with her late husband David to the Somerset Levels in the early 70s and they raised their family there.
(17) Dysphagia for solids of some degree was seen postoperatively in 26 patients and this was also demonstrated by delay in transit of a marsh-mallow swallow test.
(18) The complex extract and the polysaccharide isolated from the roots of marsh mallow were tested for antitussive activity in unanaesthetized cats of both sexes.
(19) Back in spring after the second wettest April on record in Somerset, Mallows's home was flooded and she had to move out to rented accommodation in Glastonbury.
(20) A week after she was hoisted on to the shoulders of six firefighters and carried "like a coffin" through the floodwater from her remote Somerset farmhouse, 90-year-old Diana Mallows is still struggling to find the right words to sum up her feelings.