(n.) Herbs collectively; green food beasts; grass; pasture.
(n.) The liberty or right of pasture in the forest or in the grounds of another man.
Example Sentences:
(1) Feces from infected calves and lambs were placed on pasture plots and samples of upper herbage, lower herbage, mat and soil were collected at five intervals per day throughout the daylight hours on 18 sample days over 12 months.
(2) At that time the herbage larval infectivity around inoculated cow pats deposited in May, June and July was subject to a reduction of 48%, 89% and 46%, respectively, compared with fungus-free control cow pats.
(3) Multiple regression analysis showed that 60 per cent of variation in D viviparus third stage larvae recovery from herbage was accounted for by known variables.
(4) Reduced trichostrongylid infection on herbage and in calves was obtained when first-season calves, grazing a common area of pasture, received low-dosage phenothiazine (PTZ) in two successive years.
(5) Partial correlations between disappearance of N, K, Ca, Mg and S after the 48-h incubation and herbage concentration were significant.
(6) Extrusa and hand-clipped herbage samples were similar (P greater than .10) in OMD during May and September, but OMD of extrusa was greater (P less than .05) during June, July and August compared to clipped samples.
(7) From the results of the herbage analysis and the worm burdens in parasite naive tracer calves introduced at the end of 18 months, it was clear that considerable numbers of infective larvae of Ostertagia ostertagi and Cooperia oncophora survived for at least 18 months on pastures not grazed at all.
(8) There was no significant difference in tryptophan content between herbage from two normal pastures and from three pastures in which outbreaks of fog fever occurred.
(9) Few infective larvae were recovered from the soil although appreciable numbers of larvae were recovered from the herbage.
(10) Contaminated herbage was eaten most when attractive herbage became scarce.
(11) Larvae were extracted by washing and sedimentation and counts expressed as number of larvae per kg dry herbage.
(12) The profile of the graph of larval availability in herbage paralleled those for temperature and rainfall, suggesting that larval peaks occurred when the temperature and availability of moisture were optimal.
(13) The effect of supplements on intake, digestibility, N retention, ADG and blood and body composition of growing lambs fed cut herbage or grazing KY 31 tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.)
(14) The release of low molecular weight 137Cs species after in vitro incubation with rumen liquid for 4-8 h was 75-85% for grass, herbage and fungi, 30% for lichen and 10% for litter.
(15) A dramatic rise in L3 population size occurred on herbage near pats, 17-25 days after pat deposition.
(16) The number of infective O. ostertagi larvae in inoculated cow pats was reduced by 42% and herbage larval infectivity around them by 50-71% as compared with the corresponding parameters in control pats and surrounding herbage.
(17) Diets of fresh kale (Brassica oleracea) and ryegrass (Lolium perenne)-clover (Trifolium repens) herbage were fed to growing sheep in three experiments.
(18) The greatest numbers of larvae were recovered from herbage in August and September.
(19) This experiment indicates that a concentration of 2000 A. oligospora conidia per gram faeces results in a significant lowering of the herbage larval infectivity during the grazing season in Denmark.
(20) Numbers of infective C. oncophora larvae isolated from the pats as well as from the surrounding herbage were subject to an approximately ten-fold reduction as compared with numbers in fungus-free pats and herbage surrounding these.
Plant
Definition:
(n.) A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule.
(n.) A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
(n.) The sole of the foot.
(n.) The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a railroad.
(n.) A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick.
(n.) An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
(n.) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
(n.) To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize.
(n.) To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots.
(n.) To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest.
(n.) To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
(n.) To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony.
(n.) To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen.
(n.) To set firmly; to fix; to set and direct, or point; as, to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a standard in any place; to plant one's feet on solid ground; to plant one's fist in another's face.
(n.) To set up; to install; to instate.
(v. i.) To perform the act of planting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
(2) A phytochemical investigation of an ethanolic extract of the whole plant of Echites hirsuta (Apocynaceae) resulted in the isolation and identification of the flavonoids naringenin, aromadendrin (dihydrokaempferol), and kaempferol; the coumarin fraxetin; the triterpene ursolic acid; and the sterol glycoside sitosteryl glucoside.
(3) Herbalists in Baja California Norte, Mexico, were interviewed to determine the ailments and diseases most frequently treated with 22 commonly used medicinal plants.
(4) This paper has considered the effects and potential application of PFCs, their emulsions and emulsion components for regulating growth and metabolic functions of microbial, animal and plant cells in culture.
(5) Labour MP Jamie Reed, whose Copeland constituency includes Sellafield, called on the government to lay out details of a potential plan to build a new Mox plant at the site.
(6) Plaque size, appearance, and number were influenced by diluent, incubation temperature after nutrient overlay, centrifugation of inoculated tissue cultures, and number of host cells planted initially in each flask.
(7) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
(8) Equal numbers of handled and unhandled puparia were planted out at different densities (1, 2, 4 or 8 per linear metre) in fifty-one natural puparial sites in four major vegetation types.
(9) The lambs of the second group were given 1200-1500 g of concentrate pellets and 300 g chopped wheat straw, and those of the third group were given 800 and 1050 g each of concentrate pellets, and 540 g and 720 g of pellets of whole maize plant containing 40 per cent.
(10) In later years, the church built a business empire that included the Washington Times newspaper, the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, Bridgeport University in Connecticut, as well as a hotel and a car plant in North Korea.
(11) One example of this increased data generation is the emergence of genomic selection, which uses statistical modeling to predict how a plant will perform before field testing.
(12) The effects of lowering the temperature from 25 degrees C to 2-8 degrees C on carbohydrate metabolism by plant cells are considered.
(13) He fashioned alliances with France in the 1950s, and planted the seeds for Israel’s embryonic electronics and aircraft industries.
(14) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(15) Results in this preliminary study demonstrate the need to evaluate the hazard of microbial aerosols generated by sewage treatment plants similar to the one studied.
(16) However, it was concluded that the biochemical models fail to give a complete description of photosynthesis in plants using the C4-dicarboxylic acid cycle.
(17) Subsequently the plant protein was partially purified from leaf extract.
(18) Ecological risk assessments are used by the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) and other governmental agencies to assist in determining the probability and magnitude of deleterious effects of hazardous chemicals on plants and animals.
(19) A model is proposed for the study of plant breeding where the self-fertilization rate is of importance.
(20) The behavior and effects of atmospheric emissions in soils and plants are discussed.