(n.) An extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with trees; in the United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never been cultivated.
(n.) A large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use, not inclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of its own.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a forest; sylvan.
(v. t.) To cover with trees or wood.
Example Sentences:
(1) A golden toad (Bufo periglenes) in Monteverde Cloud forest reserve in Puntarenas province of Costa Rica.
(2) In conjunction with the development of a computerized goal-oriented record system at Forest Hospital Des Plaines, Illinois, research staff developed a psychiatric goal list from goal statements most frequently used at the hospital.
(3) Celebrity woodlanders Tax breaks and tree-hugging already draw the wealthy and well-known to buy British forests.
(4) As yet there is no evidence that the occurrence of savanna flies in the rain forest zone of Liberia was of epidemiological significance.
(5) James Goodman, chairman of the Wyre Forest GPs' Association, said: "We didn't necessarily fully support the changes at the start of the process.
(6) The report warned that 24m acres of unprotected forest lands across the southeastern US are at risk, largely from European biomass operations.
(7) Ecologic studies of small mammals in Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP) were conducted in 1974 in order to identify the specific habitats within the Lower Montane Forest that support Colorado tick fever (CTF) virus.
(8) Mice pretreated with Bru-Pel were protected against challenge with otherwise lethal doses of Semliki Forest virus.
(9) Israeli policemen search the area after a body of a Palestinian youth was found in a Jerusalem's forest area.
(10) No sick or dead monkeys were found in all the forests checked around Entebbe area during the epizootic.
(11) Countries would have to show, from historical data, satellite imagery and through direct measurement of trees, the extent, condition and the carbon content of their forests.
(12) It forecasts the pressure on forests will increase as world population grows by more than 2.5 billion people in the next 40 years.
(13) I salute you.” So clear-fall logging and burning of the tallest flowering forests on the planet, with provision for the dynamiting of trees over 80 metres tall, is an ultimate good in Abbott’s book of ecological wisdom.
(14) This paper reports selected results of a quantitative study of the affective behavior of the Efe, exchange-dependent hunter-gatherers of the Ituri forest in northeastern Zaire.
(15) In the southern state of Karnataka, corruption is blamed for uncontrolled mining in vast areas of protected forest.
(16) The well drained soils of the Suiá--Missu forest are very uniform, deep latosols (oxisols) of very dystrophic nature with pH (in water) between 4.0 and 5.0 (see table 2, p. 203).
(17) Tree deaths Higher rates of tree death and forest dieback have been increasingly attributed to climate change.
(18) Days and Nights in the Forest , which began as a comedy about Calcuttan gents on safari for aboriginal villagers, before shading into something almost too dark for my comprehension.
(19) The Semliki Forest virus spike subunit E2, a membrane-spanning protein, was transported to the plasma membrane in BHK cells after its carboxy terminus, including the intramembranous and cytoplasmic portions, was replaced by respective fragments of either the vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein or the fowl plague virus hemagglutinin.
(20) The antibody response against flaviviruses tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), Kyasanur Forest disease (KFD), Murray Valley encephalitis (MVE), West Nile fever (WNF), Japanese B encephalitis (JE), dengue 2 (DEN-2), and yellow fever (YF) was studied in humans after administration of an inactivated TBE virus vaccine.
Horticulture
Definition:
(n.) The cultivation of a garden or orchard; the art of cultivating gardens or orchards.
Example Sentences:
(1) For services to Horticulture and Land-Based Education.
(2) Pressure was growing, especially on thousands of suppliers of horticulture such as fruit and vegetables, because they often had direct relationships with the big food retailers, said Kendall.
(3) Today beside of the very important gibberellic acid (GA3) other gibberellins such as GA4 and GA7 are of significance for agriculture and horticulture.
(4) This new mechanisms can help to destroy fungi and parasites in dermatology, agriculture, horticulture and cultivation of decorative plants without side effects on the host.
(5) S. subglobosa should be considered in bamboo-associated and horticultural injuries.
(6) "If growers cannot get the required labour, evidence suggests that a replacement SAWS would help horticulture thrive in the long run, but it is ultimately for the government to decide if this sector is a priority."
(7) Ministers have been criticised for being slow to act, after the Horticultural Trade Association asked the then Labour government to ban ash imports in 2009 .
(8) As bioinsecticides in pest control in horticulture, agriculture and forestry.
(9) Initial tests indicate that even the more stable compounds are degraded rapidly in soil, so if the trials at present in progress reveal no toxicological or environmental hazards, within a few years synthetic pyrethroids should be available to control a wide range of domestic, veterinary, horticultural, agricultural, and forest pests at low rates of application.
(10) The Royal Horticultural Society put out guidelines for domestic gardeners to save water, such as mulching and improving the soil by digging in large amounts of compost or other organic matter.
(11) 2009 The Horticultural Trades Association warns the government that the fungus, now widespread in Denmark, could spread to the UK, and calls for an import ban.
(12) There’s a five-acre vegetable plot and heritage orchard to test your horticultural knowledge.
(13) Formerly director of Horticulture and Learning, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
(14) The trade and investment minister, Andrew Robb, highlighted the benefits set to flow for Australian farmers, saying the deal would eliminate prohibitive tariffs on beef, sugar, dairy, wheat, wine, horticulture and seafood.
(15) There are reasons why I should say yes.” The Name of the Rose A thorny foreign policy issue arose after Thatcher approved a request from the German horticultural industry to name a rose in her honour.
(16) Ben Raskin, head of horticulture at the Soil Association, said that the weather conditions have been particularly bad for organic farmers.
(17) TreeHouse has developed several vocational and leisure pathways to provide our older pupils with experience, including horticulture, performing arts, catering and hospitality, retail and enterprise, digital media, and sports and leisure.
(18) An epidemiological survey was conducted after the observation of 4 cases of acute brucellosis in an horticultural school.
(19) Murray-Darling water buybacks capped at 1,500 gigalitres as bill passes Senate Read more It is understood Joyce wants the South Australian Liberal senator Anne Ruston, who was sworn in as the assistant minister for agriculture and water resources, to focus on fisheries, forestry, horticulture and wine, rather than water.
(20) Virological investigations, using poliovirus type I, were carried out on the detection of enterovirus and their persistence in the chemical sludge from a tertiary treatment process, which could be suitable for agricultural and horticultural applications.--A comparison of six eluents showed that tryptose phosphate broth yielded best results allowing approximately 30% overall recovery with the method described.