(n.) Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.
(n.) An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single.
(n.) The season of fresh grass; spring.
(n.) Metaphorically used for what is transitory.
(v. t.) To cover with grass or with turf.
(v. t.) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
(v. t.) To bring to the grass or ground; to land; as, to grass a fish.
(v. i.) To produce grass.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tottenham Hotspur’s £400m redevelopment of White Hart Lane could include a retractable grass pitch as the club explores the possibility of hosting a new NFL franchise.
(2) Using a large clinic population with adequate controls, significant correlation between ragweed, grass or tree pollen sensitivity and the dates of birth was not obtained.
(3) A grassed roof, solar panels to provide hot water, a small lake to catch rainwater which is then recycled, timber cladding for insulation ... even the pitch and floodlights are "deliberately positioned below the level of the surrounding terrain in order to reduce noise and light pollution for the neighbouring population".
(4) Key to this has been the employment of Erin McCallum, a highly-respected political strategist and grass roots organiser, as our new national campaign director.
(5) The clinical findings in six natural and two experimental cases of Kikuyu grass poisoning in Natal, South Africa, are described and compared with findings in cases of toxicity reported elsewhere.
(6) Six of the WAD goats carried natural infections of H. contortus and T. colubriformis and eight other (tracer) goats acquired their infections from a grass paddock artificially contaminated with H. placei, C. pectinata and C. punctata, during May to October.
(7) Six atopic subjects with grass pollen allergy and six nonallergic healthy volunteers were enrolled into this study.
(8) The survival of infective larvae of Ancylostoma caninum on outdoor grass plots was studied in 40 experiments over 1 year.
(9) But pipeline opponents say that by moving beetles from the Nebraska sandhills and mowing miles of grass where the insects once lived, TransCanada has illegally begun construction on the project.
(10) Most patients showed several positive skin tests to common allergens particular to grass pollen, house dust and mites (Dermatophagoides pteronyssimus).
(11) For all its posing and grooming, there are no nightclubs - the only flashing lights along this coast are the glowworms strobing across the grass at dusk.
(12) Highest concentrations of haptoglobin and orosomucoid were recorded in subacute grass sickness.
(13) The principle’s not so different now.” Fifteen years ago, when he was 27, Baker found himself with an ailing father and 250 cows, farmed traditionally – grass in summer, silage and concentrates in winter – around the village.
(14) Consumption of alfalfa hay resulted in the highest total viable counts of rumen bacteria but a lower proportion of fibrolytic counts than seen on the grass diets.
(15) The year 2000 process, a national grass-roots initiative, may be a useful model for individual states to adopt.
(16) But he quickly carved out a niche, introducing to an English-speaking audience the works of German-language writers, notably Friedrich Hölderlin, but also Brecht, Rilke, Grass and others.
(17) Cattle are excellent converters of grass but terrible converters of concentrated feed.
(18) passing through a 1.18 mm sieve during wet sieving) from the reticulo-rumen were negatively related to dimensions of particles, with greater ease of outflow for legume than for grass particles of the same length or diameter.
(19) In allergologic out-patient departments of Dubrovnik, Split, Sibenik, Zadar, Pula and Rijeka, 300 patients with pollinosis have been tested by the application of the prick method of group allergens of grass, tree and weed pollen, particularly of Parietariae (pellitory) pollen.
(20) When the couple looked over their own balcony on the 15th floor of 63 Petershill Drive in Glasgow's Red Road estate, they saw three bodies on the small square of grass below.
Grasshopper
Definition:
(n.) Any jumping, orthopterous insect, of the families Acrididae and Locustidae. The species and genera are very numerous. The former family includes the Western grasshopper or locust (Caloptenus spretus), noted for the great extent of its ravages in the region beyond the Mississippi. In the Eastern United States the red-legged (Caloptenus femurrubrum and C. atlanis) are closely related species, but their ravages are less important. They are closely related to the migratory locusts of the Old World. See Locust.
(n.) In ordinary square or upright pianos of London make, the escapement lever or jack, so made that it can be taken out and replaced with the key; -- called also the hopper.
Example Sentences:
(1) For example, where 2 longitudinal tracts are pioneered independently in grasshopper, only one is formed in Drosophila.
(3) The silver staining technique was employed to locate Nucleolar Organiser Regions (NORs) in six species of grasshoppers viz.
(4) The morphological characteristics of five types of local spiking interneurons in the metathoracic ganglion of the acridid grasshopper Omocestus viridulus L. have been revealed by intracellular injection of the fluorescent dye Lucifer Yellow.
(5) In grasshoppers the auditory receptors develop by epithelial invagination of the body wall ectoderm in the first abdominal segment.
(6) We also show, by indirect immunofluorescence studies, that the 60-kDa protein is antigenically conserved in the germ cells of grasshopper, rooster, and frog and in plant meiocytes.
(7) The employment of certain DNA-specific fluorescent stains on unbanded and C-banded chromosomes of two species of grasshoppers shows remarkable differences among C-heterochromatic regions supposed to be similar in their base pair composition, according to their response to the standard fluorescence techniques.
(8) The Ti1 pioneer neurons arise at the distal tip of the metathoracic leg in the grasshopper embryo, and are the first neurons in the limb bud to extend axons to the central nervous system (C. M. Bate (1976) Nature (London) 260, 54-56; H. Keshishian (1980) Dev.
(9) Some 80-90 adult neurons constitute the dorsal unpaired median (DUM) group of the grasshopper metathoracic ganglion.
(10) The effects of four concentrations of colchicine (2.5 x 10(-7), x 10(-5), x 10(-3), and x 10(-2)M) on the cell cycle of grasshopper neuroblasts have been determined by direct observations on living cells.
(11) Gaulden reported a novel and unexpected mitomycin C (MMC) effect, namely a pronounced retardation of very late prophase and loss of chromosome orientation in neuroblasts of the grasshopper Chortophaga viridifasciate.
(12) Annulin, named for its annular expression in developing limb buds, is a approximately 100 kDa membrane-associated protein that is expressed in a complex and changing pattern during grasshopper embryogenesis.
(13) Finances can be insecure, she admits, and there is some concern about the government’s move to raise “free” childcare for three- and four-year-olds from 15 hours per week to 30 since Grasshoppers (like most private nurseries) makes a loss on the government-funded hours.
(14) The effect of implanted active corpora allata on the reproductive diapause in adult females of grasshopper, Tetrix undulata (Sow.)
(15) Creative solutions like co-production can be part of the picture to solve our childcare challenges, but can’t be a substitute for the major reforms to our childcare policy and funding needed to provide the volume of high-quality, affordable places that parents need.” In terms of the practicalities for working parents, Schofield adds that “most parents who choose childcare do work and may not be time-rich in this way.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bruce, who has worked at Grasshoppers for four years, puts his acting background to good use during storytelling time.
(16) A quantitative analysis of the alterations of constitutive heterochromatin in eukaryotic chromosomal evolution was attempted using the accumulated C-banding data available for mammals, amphibians, fish, ants, grasshoppers, and plants.
(17) Motor neurons of the main muscles of the hind legs and the hind wings of the grasshopper are distributed into eight anatomical groups within each half of a bilaterally symmetrical segmental ganglion.
(18) I cut through the spindle of demembranated grasshopper spermatocytes between the chromosomes and one pole and swept the polar region away, removing a portion of the would-be traction fiber.
(19) Additionally, the intersegmental (IS) nerve is pioneered by a different neuron in Drosophila (aCC) than in the grasshopper (U1) because the smaller Drosophila CNS places the IS nerve within filopodial reach of the aCC soma, while in the grasshopper it is not.
(20) Combined high-voltage electron-microscopic and electrophysiological studies strongly suggest that cilia play an active role in sensory transduction in the grasshopper proximal femoral chordotonal organ (FCO) a ciliated mechanoreceptor.