(n.) Any evergreen shrub or tree, of the genus Juniperus and order Coniferae.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three ways with cider vinegar • Winter salad dressing Boil two shallots with a few juniper berries and thyme leaves, then reduce 150ml cider vinegar by half and mix with the above.
(2) Tony Juniper, Friends of the Earth director, says that offsetting should be part of a 'hierarchy' of actions, at the top of which are lifestyle changes aimed at reducing domestic emissions (low-energy light bulbs, fewer car journeys, etc) and switching to bio fuels and so on.
(3) Photograph: Alamy Now, among the juniper trees, you can find strip-malls full of crystal shops, aura-reading stations and psychics.
(4) High-profile candidates standing for the Greens include Tony Juniper, the former director of Friends of the Earth, who will fight the Cambridge seat, and Peter Tatchell, who will stand in Oxford East despite being told by his doctor to reduce his workload after suffering mild brain damage during his human rights protests.
(5) Pollen of different species of the Taxodiaceae family (Cryptomeria japonica, Sequoia sempervirens and Metasequoia glyptostroboides) and Japanese juniper (Juniperus rigida) in the Cupressaceae family, which are propagated mainly in the southern region of Okayama Prefecture, were found among the atmospheric pollen.
(6) Tony Juniper, former head of Friends of the Earth and an adviser to the project, said such financing was less controversial than the extension of carbon markets to forests, as is planned as part of a new climate treaty.
(7) Forty (25%) and 30 (18.8%) of the 160 patients reacted positively to an allergen extract from the pollen grains of Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica) and Japanese juniper, respectively.
(8) Juniper’s got everything going against it.” That includes the female plants’ tendency to catch not the male pollen intended for them, but pollutants that block off their receptors, preventing pollination.
(9) It’s better with the traditional juniper-heavy gins.” You might also argue that Fever-Tree represents everything that some have come to loathe about the new foodie world: an insistence on branding and artisanal ingredients for a product that serves the same purpose it always has, except at many times the price.
(10) Juniper – which by law must be the dominating flavour for a drink to be classed as gin – has been in decline in England for decades, thanks to milder winters, air pollution and hungry rabbits; the conservation charity Plantlife has warned it could be extinct across much of lowland England by 2060.
(11) Juniper speaks and writes on many aspects of sustainability and is the author of several books, including the award winning Parrots of the World, Spix’s Macaw and How Many Light Bulbs Does It Take To Change A Planet?
(12) My vortex tour with Mark Griffon of Sedona Mystical Tours ($135, three hours) – who starts off the morning with a sage cleansing near a stone-circle “medicine wheel” he’s assembled himself in his backyard – is at times uncomfortably intense, as one of the attendees breaks down into sobs during a meditation against a juniper tree called Fred.
(13) It was flavoured with juniper to improve the taste and add medicinal properties.
(14) Traditionally, gin is subtly flavoured with herbs such as cardamom, coriander and juniper, and fruit such as cucumber, lemon and orange peel.
(15) Citrus peel, coriander and juniper should be infused for a week or so; cardamom added for just a day or two.
(16) The prince is working on the book with co-authors Ian Skelly and ex- Friends of the Earth director Tony Juniper .
(17) The results suggest that certain traditional plant treatments for diabetes, namely agrimony, alfalfa, coriander, eucalyptus and juniper, can retard the development of streptozotocin diabetes in mice.
(18) London dry gin, which is made from a fermented grain mash and flavoured with juniper berries, is a staple of the industry and has become a supermarket favourite.
(19) Indeed, it would protect one of the world's most resilient coral reefs and some of the finest coral habitats remaining in the Indian Ocean," said Tony Juniper, green party candidate and campaigner.
(20) Environmentalist Tony Juniper, who was a prominent critic of the merger plan , said: "It is a good day for polar science and very encouraging that argument has won out over dogma."
Tree
Definition:
(n.) Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.
(n.) Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree.
(n.) A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.
(n.) A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.
(n.) Wood; timber.
(n.) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead.
(v. t.) To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel.
(v. t.) To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree; as, to tree a boot. See Tree, n., 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arterial compliance of great vessels can be studied through the Doppler evaluation of pulsed wave velocity along the arterial tree.
(2) The only sign of life was excavators loading trees on to barges to take to pulp mills.
(3) These findings suggest that aerosolization of ATP into the cystic fibrosis-affected bronchial tree might be hazardous in terms of enhancement of parenchymal damage, which would result from neutrophil elastase release, and in terms of impaired respiratory lung function.
(4) 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.
(5) Anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia is characterized by an absence of seromucous glands in the oropharynx and tracheobronchial tree, making children with this disease prone to viral and bacterial respiratory infections.
(6) Celebrity woodlanders Tax breaks and tree-hugging already draw the wealthy and well-known to buy British forests.
(7) A new family tree of the tyrannosaurs in the paper considers Lythronax to be very close to Tyrannosaurus and its nearest relatives.
(8) Increasing awareness of disorders such as coronary arterial spasm, functional impairment of subendocardial blood flow and the possible role of variant patterns of anatomic distribution of the coronary arterial tree, will provide a better understanding of their significance as determining or contributing factors in patients with the anginal syndrome.
(9) It's of her and Barack Obama planting an olive tree in Uhuru park in the city centre in October 2006.
(10) The alterations of dendritic trees of pyramidal neurons of layer III of visual cortex of the rat exposed to the influence of space flight aboard biosputnik "Cosmos-1887" were studied and the results are described to illustrate the methods power.
(11) The trachea and the bronchial tree (first through seventh order branches) both synthesized alpha1(II) chains.
(12) 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.
(13) The criteria selected by a classification tree method were similar: palpable purpura, age less than or equal to 20 years at disease onset, biopsy showing granulocytes around arterioles or venules, and gastrointestinal bleeding.
(14) The results are consistent with an action of banana tree juice on the molecule responsible for excitation-contraction coupling in skeletal muscle, resulting in a labilization of intracellular Ca2+.
(15) Studying the bronchial tree on the chest x-ray it is possible to indicate the visceral situs with asplenia or with polysplenia.
(16) Reconstruction of the intrahepatic biliary tree was carried out in all patients using intrahepatic cholangiojejunostomies between common segmental hepatic stomata and a Roux-en-Y jejunal loop.
(17) Axonal trees display differential growth during development or regeneration; that is, some branches stop growing and often retract while other branches continue to grow and form stable synaptic connections.
(18) When the vascular supply is abnormal, reconstruction of the vascular tree of one or both organs may be needed.
(19) A major outbreak in Kent in 2012 saw 2,000 trees felled.
(20) "We are alarmed to see the government is even wavering about continuing its programme of tracing, testing and destroying infected young ash trees.