(n.) A vine or climbing shrub, of the genus Vitis, having small green flowers and lobed leaves, and bearing the fruit called grapes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ministers can glean vital gossip about cabinet reshuffles if they keep on the right side of their drivers, who form the most high-class grapevine in Britain as they wait in the Speaker's courtyard at Westminster while their charges vote in the Commons.
(2) Probe HSV-2 discriminated HSV-grapevine from the other members of HSV group.
(3) A virus with isometric particles c. 30 nm in diameter and angular contour was isolated by inoculation of sap from a Tunisian grapevine with mild mottling and leaf deformation.
(4) Designations which can be used to describe distinct viroids within the four groups include (i) CEVd-g, a grapevine isolate of citrus exocortis viroid, (ii) GVd-c, a grapevine viroid recovered from cucumber, and AGVd, Australian grapevine viroid, (iii) GYSVd-1 and GYSVd-2, two viroids inducing yellow speckle disease and (iv) HSVd-g, a grapevine isolate of hop stunt viroid.
(5) Flavescence dorée (FD), a grapevine yellows disease, is caused by a mycoplasma-like organism (MLO).
(6) Stilbene synthase is responsible for the formation of resveratrol and other stilbenes which function in grapevine as phytoalexins.
(7) Grapevine fanleaf virus, a member of the ArMV subgroup could not be shown to expose crossreactive epitopes.
(8) The coat protein (CP) cistron of Grapevine Fanleaf virus strain F13 (GFLV-F13) has been located in the C-terminal region of the 122k polyprotein encoded by the genomic RNA 2 [Serghini et al.
(9) At the top of the scoreboard were actor Danny Mac and partner Oti Mabuse, who collected 38 points for their Argentine tango to Marvin Gaye’s I Heard It Through the Grapevine.
(10) These comparisons provide the basis for uniform nomenclature of grapevine viroids found in different geographical regions.
(11) We have provisionally named this viroid Australian grapevine viroid.
(12) The primary structure of a grapevine viroid (GVs) isolated in Spain was determined.
(13) Fragments of the putative non-structural proteins (44K and 46K) encoded by RNA2 of grapevine chrome mosaic nepovirus (GCMV) were expressed as fusion proteins in Escherichia coli and used to raise specific antisera.
(14) Not only were father and son considering closing the scandal-racked News of the World , went the chatter on the Wapping grapevine, but its sister paper, the Sun, was also in the line of fire.
(15) Biscoito’s villagers plant their grapevines in tiny lava rock enclosures to protect them from the salty breezes.
(16) The RNA which we have called grapevine yellow speckle viroid (GYSV), contains 367 nucleotide residues and has the potential to form the rod-like secondary structure characteristic of viroids.
(17) A single stranded circular RNA was isolated from grapevines infected with yellow speckle disease.
(18) Therefore, the virus is possibly a hitherto unreported nepovirus for which the name of grapevine Tunisian ringspot virus (GTRV) is proposed.
(19) The complete nucleotide sequence of hungarian grapevine chrome mosaic nepovirus (GCMV) RNA2 has been determined.
(20) PBCVd has highest sequence similarity with grapevine 1B viroid (52.4%), but also contains sequences related to regions present in viroids that belong to different subgroups, suggesting that PBCVd could have developed from RNA recombination between viroids replicating in a common host plant.
Hearsay
Definition:
(n.) Report; rumor; fame; common talk; something heard from another.
Example Sentences:
(1) He admitted, however, that he had not been able to find any record of this incident on the police computer and Mr Justice Riddle said that the evidence was "third-hand, anonymous hearsay".
(2) Wang admitted basing his report “on hearsay and his own subjective guesses without conducting due verifications”, Xinhua added.
(3) The symptom of penis captivus during sexual intercourse has had a largely hearsay existence in medical history, and rumour has embellished the drama of its occurrence.
(4) Hearsay and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
(5) "It turns out Mr Lewis's account contradicts the hearsay evidence attributed to Det Sgt Maberly.
(6) Questionnaires regarding experience, hearsay, and perceptions of anxiety toward eight dental treatments were distributed to a general patient population.
(7) On the role of the Boston College-Belfast Project tapes, he says: "The allegation of conspiracy in the killing of Mrs McConville is based almost exclusively on hearsay from unnamed alleged Boston College interviewees but mainly from the late Dolours Price [an IRA Old Bailey bomber] and Brendan Hughes [a Belfast IRA commanding officer].
(8) But a senior western diplomat dismissed this as hearsay, arguing that the Sudanese government's desire to strengthen ties with Cairo made them unlikely to side against Egypt on Libya .
(9) The internet will become constructed entirely of two different sorts of untruth: contemporaneous unalloyed praise and posthumous defamatory hearsay.
(10) The reason, again according to hearsay, was that he dozed off during one of Kim’s speeches.
(11) He said: "In the report, statements are made and inferences drawn on condition of anonymity and hearsay.
(12) Stuart-Smith concluded there was no cover-up, because the changes mostly involved removing comment and hearsay, although he did criticise some deletions of fact.
(13) But the home secretary cannot intervene on the basis of suspicion, rumour or hearsay.” May said the home affairs committee was also told that the concerns raised in April were confidential and they were treated as such.
(14) If one was to disavow common sense, history, evidence and truth, and, instead, rely purely on hysteria and hearsay created out of conjecture, then perhaps superficial appearances do conclusively prove Obama is a Muslim.
(15) There is reason to think, however, that all his evidence is hearsay, and that he himself never witnessed an act of cannibalism.
(16) We knew there were technical challenges but it was all hearsay.
(17) Does stating facts based on several independent levels of input and not on a few bits of non-expert hearsay endanger the reef-based tourism industry?
(18) But in a 11,750-word statement published on the Nike Oregon Project website he finally tackled the allegations which he said had left “innocent athletes’ careers tarnished with nothing but innuendo, hearsay and rumour”.
(19) It truly goes without saying.” He added : ... even if substituting a ministerial opinion based on untested hearsay and intelligence for the verdict of a jury were within the powers of parliament, should we do so as a matter of tradition and decency?
(20) The statements made in the letter regarding arbitrary arrests, torture and disappearances completely distorted the situation on the ground, and constitute generalisations based on hearsay and intentional distortions by those striving to regain a foothold in Egypt after being rejected by the people.