(n.) One who grows or produces; as, a grower of corn; also, that which grows or increases; as, a vine may be a rank or a slow grower.
Example Sentences:
(1) The current floods in Australia have the potential to affect prices for commodities such as sugar and cane growers are warning of production problems for up to three years.
(2) strain 3707, a chromogenic rapid grower; C72 to C78 (av.
(3) The labels "very strong," "strong," and "mild," used in rating the tobacco quality by the growers in Thailand, were not found to reflect the relative nicotine and tar yields.
(4) Sure, I'd love to be able to never go near a supermarket, and get everything from the growers market, but that's not achievable where I live, even on a comfortable middle class income.
(5) Birds fed on the grower diet with the highest energy concentration gave significantly better FCE than those fed on the other diets.
(6) At the meeting Hogg confirmed rumours that Durham police were no longer actively working to detect small-scale cannabis growers and users, said John Holiday, a local activist.
(7) Improving family wealth will also improve the nutritional status of the median growers, but less so than for the negative deviants.
(8) Rice is the staple crop, and climate change risks the food security of thousands of villages,” says Chay Bounphanousay, deputy director of Laos’s National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute , where scientists and growers are working to develop new rice varieties that can withstand drought, floods and heat waves.
(9) The nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP) dependent 6-PG dehydrogenase was detected only in the fast growers and was more than twice as active as the NAD-linked enzyme.
(10) Persistent lymphocyte growth was observed in 39 patients, and 15 of these growers (or 41%) developed graft coronary disease.
(11) Isonitrogenous grower diets made up of corn and soybean meal or largely oats served as control diets.
(12) The run of unpredictable weather this season has left farmers and growers with bumper crops of "ugly" fruit and vegetables with reported increases in blemishes and scarring, as well as shortages due to later crops.
(13) The state's next legal amendment is likely to establish Opec-style production caps to deter its legitimate growers from diverting excess supply to illegal dealers in neighbouring states.
(14) In an effect study 137 workers who applied pesticides for more than 10 years (average 20 years) in at least bulb disinfection and crop protection (the most important area's of exposure for the growers) were compared to 73 controls.
(15) Average daily weight gains of the starter grower period were improved for about 12%, feed conversion ratio for about 14%.
(16) Mansur Sarker is the only Bt brinjal grower in Gazipur who has had a high yield.
(17) Queensland banana farmers have called for a compensation scheme to be developed for growers whose crops have been affected by a devastating fungal disease.
(18) By the 2080s, English wine growers could harvest French grape varieties on the slopes of the Lake District.
(19) In the second experiment, males fed 15% protein during the grower period gained and weighed more than those fed 12 or 18% protein, and those fed 15% ED gained and weighed significantly more than those fed 20% EOD.
(20) The fumigations ruined our food crops but the coca would just grow back stronger.” As the herbicide rained down on their farms, NGO’s with Plan Colombia cash offered coca growers were offered incentives to substitute coca for legal crops.
Orcharder
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The first stop in this arid place of poor farms and orchards clinging to the dry soil is Rafah, cut off by the border from its Palestinian counterpart.
(2) "Moody's believes these assumptions to be sound," said Orchard.
(3) The major part of insecticides and fungicides used for orchard protection were examined.
(4) Pistachio nut samples taken during various stages of development from orchards in Iran, showed that contamination with fungi occurred mainly during the later stages of nut development.
(5) Patients were paired on the basis of cutaneous end point titrations to timothy, orchard, and Bermuda grass-pollen extracts.
(6) Through the searing summer heat, the Mexican immigrant to California’s Central Valley and his family endured a daily routine of collecting water in his pickup truck from an emergency communal tank, washing from buckets and struggling to keep their withering orchard alive while they waited for snow to return to the mountains and begin the cycle of replenishing the aquifer that provides water to almost all the homes in the region.
(7) Intradermal skin tests were performed using six allergens: house dust (HD), ragweed, Japanese cedar, orchard grass, candida and broncasma berna.
(8) Neat and tidy orchards, well-stocked farms lined the wayside, and the British soldier did not fail to admire the place and its inhabitants.
(9) Support for the latter came from observation of an increased paraoxon:parathion ration in air samples collected downwind from the orchard.
(10) As Cricket NSW doctor John Orchard noted, “grade cricket does not have the infrastructure in place to safely monitor and manage heatstroke in what is essentially an amateur, volunteer-run organisation”.
(11) Set on the side of a shallow green valley of fields, coppices and orchards, Rakinice is an astonishingly beautiful spot, but you cannot eat the scenery.
(12) After filling your belly with the very best British cream tea, sitting on a deckchair surrounded by fruiting apple trees at The Orchard Tea Garden, why not take a dip in the refreshingly cool and clear Byron's Pool, where Lord Byron himself was fond of a skinny dip.
(13) In response, Samuel Adams started producing Angry Orchard , which became the country's top-selling cider only eight months after it launched, and a hard iced tea called Twisted Tea.
(14) Every summer, around this time of the year, Limbert goes to a sour cherry orchard near his house in Virginia to make jam, a Persian tradition.
(15) It was also noticed that crops exerted more beneficial effects on microbial activities than orchards, and the dehydrogenase test was the most reliable parameter to reveal this fact.
(16) The technique is demonstrated using various seeds known to form part of the diet of the bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula L.), a pest of commercial orchards in southeast England.
(17) Orchard hygiene is a big thing for us,” says Simpson.
(18) To assess the potential effects on neuropsychiatric performance of chronic occupational exposure to organophosphate insecticides, we performed a prospective longitudinal study of a cohort of apple orchard pesticide applicators and a comparison cohort of beef slaughter-house workers.
(19) Until recently, Ray Pool was the proud owner of a bountiful, lovingly tended orchard of peaches.
(20) The NIST has produced and is in the process of certifying two new leaf CRMs, SRM1515 Apple Leaves and SRM 1547 Peach Leaves, as replacements for the no longer available NBS Orchard Leaves and the almost depleted Citrus Leaves.