(v.) A smaller group of trees than a forest, and without underwood, planted, or growing naturally as if arranged by art; a wood of small extent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Biological monitoring was performed for one year at the site of an orange grove on the left bank of the river.
(2) Where to stay: Beachside bungalows at Coco Grove Beach Resort cost £19 per person.
(3) In Gove's groves of academe, high achievers will be more clearly set apart, laurels for the winners in his regime of fact and rote, 1950s grammar schools reprised, rewarding those who already thrive under any system.
(4) In the (dpTpA)2:NQO and (dpApT)2NQO complexes, the NO2 seems to project into the minor grove and the NQO benzenoid ring is over the purine imidazole ring.
(5) The applicability to these data of the Groves and Thompson (1970) Dual-Process Model of Habituation is discussed.
(6) In the palm grove, transmission was ensured by 2 effective vectors during the rainy season (October to May).
(7) Schad was sentenced to death for killing Lorimer "Leroy" Grove, whose body was found 9 August 1978, in underbrush off the shoulder of US 89 south of Prescott.
(8) 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.
(9) The spark for the longest-running protest in modern Tunisian history was lit on 17 December in the town of Sidi Bouzid, in the rural interior of Tunisia, a region of olive groves and agriculture which is racked by vast unemployment, repression and poverty a world away from the riches of the Tunisian tourist coast and the propaganda of Tunisia's "economic miracle".
(10) James Clapper , the director of national intelligence, is said to talk nearly every day with the head of US Central Command’s intelligence wing, Army Major General Steven Grove – “which is highly, highly unusual”, according to a former intelligence official.
(11) So I say to them: ‘Your challenge, guys, is actually to play it straight.’” At Highbury Grove the experiment is in its early stages.
(12) The principal catching site was a palm grove surrounded by forest 3 km from the village.
(13) Previous studies from this laboratory have demonstrated that the electrical excitability of nigro-striatal dopaminergic terminals is reduced by the dopaminomimetics apomorphine and amphetamine and is increased by the dopamine antagonists haloperidol, fluphenazine and sulpiride (Groves, Fenster, Tepper, Nakamura, and Young 1981; Tepper, Nakamura, Young and Groves 1984).
(14) Biological monitoring was performed for one year at the site of a sugar cane grove on the left bank of the river.
(15) The widespread use of herbicides in Florida citrus groves raises the possibility of residue accumulation following repeated applications.
(16) At Ladbroke Grove, shortly after the flame had passed from the bus to relay runners, it was almost wrestled from the hands of TV presenter Konnie Huq.
(17) Two men in balaclavas stood in an olive grove, firing shot after earsplitting shot into the air, their M16s angled a bit too low for comfort.
(18) According to his agent Jonathan Groves, he conducted there "every year since he made his debut in 1952 until his final appearances with Rigoletto in 2005".
(19) However, the political debate fails to reflect that contemporary reality in any meaningful way.” The report , by Ford and Ruth Grove-White from the Migrants’ Rights Network, is published on Thursday and based on an analysis of data from the census in 2001 and 2011 and the national statistics agency.
(20) Rotblat overheard the military director of the Manhattan Project, Lieutenant General Richard Groves, say at a wartime dinner party: "You realise of course that the main purpose of this project is to subdue the Russkies."
Posy
Definition:
(n.) A brief poetical sentiment; hence, any brief sentiment, motto, or legend; especially, one inscribed on a ring.
(n.) A flower; a bouquet; a nosegay.
Example Sentences:
(1) The stock isn't fantastic but I spy books by Jane Gardam and Claire Messud, David Mitchell and, er, Jordan, and it's impressive that a library so small has a section devoted to graphic novels, Gemma Bovery by Posy Simmonds and David Boring by Daniel Clowes in pride of place.
(2) Even without the clues sown throughout the album (Palace Posy is an anagram of apocalypse), it audibly suggests a hollowed-out landscape in the aftermath of some terrible event.
(3) Photographers will miss the sight of him regularly hoisting small children clutching posies over barriers so they can get closer to her.
(4) The three patients with posi-ive skin test had been living for a long time in the eastern part of the U.S.A. where histoplasma capsulatum occurs endemically.
(5) And although we have our magnificent Raymond Briggs, Posy Simmonds, Steve Bell and Chris Riddell, nowhere are comic-strip books so widespread as in France.
(6) Israel's president, Shimon Peres, who turned 90 last summer, laid the first of more than a dozen wreaths and then, in a touching gesture, placed a posy of brightly-coloured anemones – a flower which carpets the area in late winter – on the grave of Sharon's late wife Lily.