(n.) Any one of numerous species of small beetles of the genus Coccinella and allied genera (family Coccinellidae); -- called also ladybug, ladyclock, lady cow, lady fly, and lady beetle. Coccinella seplempunctata in one of the common European species. See Coccinella.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ladybird: I’m Ready to Spell has a space theme, and is based on the phonics that kids will be learning in their first years at school.
(2) "Aphids use an alarm pheromone which when they're attacked by ladybirds and parasitic wasps causes them to disperse.
(3) For good measure, E-beta-farnesene also attracts aphid predators such as ladybirds and wasps.
(4) Winners and losers Going: Species facing "severe" threats in England Red squirrel Northern bluefin tuna Natterjack toad Common skate Alpine foxtail Kittiwake Grey plover Shrill carder bumblebee Recovering: Recent conservation success stories Pole cat Large blue butterfly Red kite Ladybird spider Pink meadowcap Sand lizard Pool frog Bittern
(5) iPad Ladybird: I’m Ready to Spell (£2.99) Released by book publisher Penguin, this is aimed mainly at schoolchildren preparing for their first phonics screening check, with three space-themed mini-games designed to test their spelling skills.
(6) It also attracts aphid predators such as ladybirds and wasps."
(7) This looks like Ladybird book history – engaging introduction at best; superficial and simplistic at worst.
(8) He was also very disappointed that Crissy Rock did not receive an Oscar nomination for Ladybird, Ladybird in 1994 after winning the best actress award in Berlin.
(9) So we are leading the world, and we are doing some pretty cool stuff in that space.” In a field close to the Shrimp, you might soon find “the Ladybird”, a ground robot designed for broad-acre vegetable farming.
(10) No one had ever seen so many ladybirds - a colleague remembers the sound they made when you walked on them - crunch, crunch, crunch!
(11) Over the years I had been the recipient of endless cover versions of branded toys – knock-off versions of Barbie, Caran d'Ache and Ladybird – and this Mary Poppins looked distinctly counterfeit too.
(12) This allows the sediment – pips, bits of vine, ladybirds (I saw several), etc – to settle.
(13) TOP TIP Put a crick in your neck on the easy walking trails through the Ladybird Johnson Grove trail and Tall Trees Grove trail in the southern portion of Redwood national park.
(14) It includes around 400 words related to nature including badger, bird, caterpillar, daffodil, feather, hedgehog, invertebrate, ladybird, ocean, python, sunflower, tadpole, vegetation, and zebra.
(15) Most surprisingly of all, Crissy Rock, the lead in Ladybird, Ladybird (1994) – a brilliant, devastating gut-wrencher of a film – was convinced she was starring in a happy, upbeat, redemptive story.
(16) Such films, no doubt, include his 1966 TV drama Cathy Come Home, as well as Riff Raff, Raining Stones, Ladybird, Ladybird and Sweet Sixteen.
(17) When he finds a ladybird, he shows it off to the makeup artist.
(18) Suddenly, countless ladybirds arrived on bronze wings and busied themselves finding a hole in the carcass of the tree.
(19) "Even better was his Ladybird book where he saved the World Cup final (including a surprise welcome by to Spain from Hitler)."
(20) APPS Ladybird: I’m Ready to Spell (£1.49) Released by book publisher Penguin, this is aimed mainly at schoolchildren preparing for their first phonics screening check, with three space-themed mini-games designed to test their spelling skills.
Lollipop
Definition:
(n.) A kind of sugar confection which dissolves easily in the mouth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cuts affect a wide spectrum of projects: youth offending teams will shrink, probation staff numbers will dwindle, refugee advice centres will halve in size, Sure Start services will disappear, domestic violence centres will have to restrict the number of people they can help, HIV-prevention schemes will end, lollipop wardens will no longer be funded, help for women with postnatal depression will vanish, a work scheme for people who are registered blind will be wound down, day centres for street drinkers will close their doors, theatres will get less money, debt advice services will have fewer people available to help, fire stations will shut.
(2) Fifa is giving back to Africa.” • His post-tournament verdict, after Fifa spent a tax-exempt summer suing keyring salesmen and a lollipop maker for “trying to take advantage”: “2010 was a love story.
(3) Is it Iranian tea served with saffron lollipops, brewed with cardamom , or served with kolucheh ?
(4) The data are fully consistent with the "lollipop" model of the tertiary structure.
(5) The only other person Drake ever wrote a song for was, bizarrely enough, Millie, of My Boy Lollipop, who recorded a reggae song of his called May Fair, one of those “quaint” pieces of observation – a rich lady getting in a chauffeured limousine while a tramp ambles past at the exact same moment.
(6) Professor Stephen Glaister, director of the RAC Foundation, says: "Lollipop men and women are the human face of road safety.
(7) Previous results have shown that when a T-even bacteriophage-infected cell was exposed to l-canavanine followed by an exposure to l-arginine, a monster phage particle, termed a lollipop, was formed.
(8) Mild reduction of the recombinant material revealed the lollipop-shaped monomers composed of a globular domain and a tail with a discrete kink in the middle portion.
(9) In the sequence that may have caused most puzzlement among non-Britons, Boyle examined the rise of social media through a miniature soap opera, complete with a guest appearance from Sir Tim Berners-Lee and a collaged soundtrack racing from My Generation and My Boy Lollipop through Tiger Feet and Pretty Vacant to Dizzee Rascal live in the stadium.
(10) They were led by a Guide leader and included two children, a naval officer, a judge, two Chelsea pensioners, a teacher, a peer, a nurse and a lollipop lady, wearing high visibility uniform but not, alas, carrying her stick.
(11) We now describe certain parameters concerning (i) the induction and (ii) the formation of T4 lollipops.
(12) Becoming a grandfather for the second time, following the birth of Princess Charlotte on 2 May, saw Prince Charles showered with baby booties, wooden rattles, baby blankets, vests, hats and even two giant lollipops.
(13) Comparisons of the observed Dto, zeta for PDS with predicted values using hydrodynamic theory are consistent with a "lollipop" conformation for the molecule.
(14) Diatchenko, who has had surgery on her left achilles, served lollipops from the start and retired in tears after winning just five of the 37 points played – as one might expect of someone who pulled out of her last tournament in Vancouver and was double-bageled in Stanford recently.
(15) One school in Ipswich will have its £3,000-a-year lollipop lady sponsored by a local estate agent.
(16) The " Cover Your Lollipop " campaign likens women to candy, there for the consumption and enjoyment of men.
(17) The cannabis-infused products include lollipops, gummy sweets, cookies, brownies, cartons of grape, mango and cherry juice, and chocolate bars in foil packets with exotic flavours such as banana and walnut.
(18) I spat out my cherry lollipop and it slimed down my pigtail before landing in my push-up bra.
(19) The authors compared the safety, efficacy, and effects on gastric volume and pH of oral transmucosal fentanyl citrate (OTFC) premedication and of placebo lollipop and no premedication in 55 children undergoing elective operations.
(20) The first traitor to have the pleasure was William “Braveheart” Wallace in 1305 and by the time the tradition petered out in the late 17th century, the likes of Wat Tyler, Thomas Cromwell and Guy Fawkes had all been similarly transformed into gruesome human lollipops – their heads all parboiled, sautéed in pitch, and cared for by the keeper of the heads, one of the weirdest jobs in old London.