(n.) A genus of coniferous trees, having deciduous leaves, in fascicles (see Illust. of Fascicle).
Example Sentences:
(1) The ash dieback fungus found in East Anglia last week is just the latest invader to pose a serious threat to UK trees, and government ecologists say that more than 3m larch trees as well as thousands of mature oaks and chestnuts have been felled in the past three years to prevent similar fatal plant diseases from spreading out of control.
(2) A beta-galactosyl-binding lectin was purified from the haemolymph of the clam Tridacna maxima by affinity chromatography using polylecyl larch galactan, D-galactosamine coupled to epoxy-activated Sepharose or acid-treated Sepharose.
(3) The monoclonal antibody cross-reacted with authentic tomato extensin, but not with potato lectin nor larch arabinogalactan.
(4) Many of the Bacteroides strains tested were also able to ferment a variety of plant polysaccharides, including amylose, dextran, pectin, gum tragacanth, gum guar, larch arabinogalactan, alginate, and laminarin.
(5) Less tasty species, like larch, left marooned in the flood, have simply toppled over, exposing great root bulbs, which, now, are slowly rotting.
(6) The paper presents the results of a 10-year study on waste water purification in forest soil, under conditions of lysimeters and in the field, using pine-, larch- and osier cultures.
(7) Lucy Jeynes is founding director of Larch Consulting , a specialist facilities management consultancy.
(8) The LH response in girls with precocious the larche was in the prepubertal range.
(9) It was early March and snow was still spattered on the leaf mould between the firs and larches.
(10) Three of the isolated strains utilized larch wood xylan.
(11) We must look a bedraggled mess when we arrive because lovely owners Elena and Roberto rush to dry us and warm us up, show us our cosy larch-floored room and give us drinks, and even the keys to their car, so that we can drive to the nearest restaurant still open, in Alagna.
(12) Three other polymers served as acceptors: beef lung galactan, Lymnaea stagnalis galactogen and arabinogalactan from larch wood.
(13) Using the antigen-antibody reaction in a competitive ELISA it was evident that antibodies against glycoproteins from Baptisia tinctoria were specific because none of the other antigens like those from Echinacea purpurea, Thuja occidentalis, arabinogalactan from larch, LPS from E. coli 055:B5, and from Salmonella typhimurium were able to inhibit the antigen-antibody reaction.
(14) In the established larch model system evidence was obtained for the first time of these oscillations which showed a dependence on both wavelength of the inducing light and the stage of the cell cycle.
(15) Visitors can gaze on stars, planets, meteors and satellites from the fir and larch decks of Barclay's pier-like structure.
(16) In the first series two, later three species at the same location and at the same time are compared (birch Betula pubescens L., oak Quercus robur Ehrh., larch Larix decidua Mill., and spruce Picea abies Karst).
(17) After the Chernobyl accident, the higher contamination of spruce greater than larch greater than sycamore maple is dependent on the roughness of bark, absolute bark surface and the existence of leaves during the deposition of Chernobyl-derived radioactivity.
(18) Addition of either DDT or the supernatant of a centrifuged liquid culture of Bacillus thuringiensis, serotype H1, containing beta-exotoxin, enhanced the action of the bacterial preparation Thuricide 90 T against larvae of the larch pest Zeiraphera diniana, increasing mortality from 53% to more than 80%.
(19) 20% of the translocated cesium into new leaves of larch and about 50% into sycamore maple resulted from root-uptake 2.5 years after the accident.
(20) When cellobiose, glucose, and xylose were tested as growth substrates for the production of xylanase (each initially at 2.5 mg ml-1), they were found to be less effective than xylan, and use of xylan from different origins (birch wood or larch wood) as the growth substrate or in the assay system resulted in only marginal differences in enzyme activity.
Lurch
Definition:
(v. i.) To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.
(n.) An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
(n.) A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch.
(v. t.) To leave in the lurch; to cheat.
(v. t.) To steal; to rob.
(n.) A sudden roll of a ship to one side, as in heavy weather; hence, a swaying or staggering movement to one side, as that by a drunken man. Fig.: A sudden and capricious inclination of the mind.
(v. i.) To roll or sway suddenly to one side, as a ship or a drunken man.
(v. i.) To withdraw to one side, or to a private place; to lurk.
(v. i.) To dodge; to shift; to play tricks.
Example Sentences:
(1) The District became a byword for crime and drug abuse, while its “mayor for life” lived high on the hog and lurched cheerfully from one scandal to the next.
(2) The starting premise of the remain campaign was that elections in Britain are settled in a centre-ground defined by aversion to economic risk and swung by a core of liberal middle-class voters who are allergic to radical lurches towards political uncertainty.
(3) The notion that Gleeson has lurched from one disaster to another, ruining everything from the Coen brothers' remake of True Grit to Richard Curtis's romcom About Time , seems a pretty unique interpretation of his burgeoning career as a versatile character actor.
(4) These countries which carry the burden of hosting refugees on a scale far higher and for far longer than anything experienced in Europe today must not be left in the lurch.
(5) Don't worry, there is a BTL section for you all to contribute to the debate, so we're not leaving you in the lurch.
(6) In a Guardian article in October, O'Brien directly challenged the new group when he wrote: "Obviously Cameron should ignore calls from the usual suspects to lurch rightward."
(7) On Sunday Assange said: "Will it [the US] return to and reaffirm the revolutionary values it was founded on, or will it lurch off the precipice, dragging us all into a dangerous and oppressive world?"
(8) The company has lurched from one crisis to the next over the past two years, including industrial action this spring by the chorus, with a strike only narrowly averted .
(9) An analysis of the incidence and significance of leg shortening, limping, and abductor lurch is presented and some observations made on trochanteric overgrowth and the effect of surgery on the rate of femoral head reconstitution.
(10) So where is the left-lurching that the Tories allege, with Charles Falconer, Tristram Hunt and Douglas Alexander all exalted?
(11) A white double-decker bus, also packed with foreigners, lurches in behind, then come vans and more coaches.
(12) She lurches up from the corner with cheerful gloom.
(13) It must say something about the swirling currents of prejudice, fear and anger in modern Britain that even Banksy cannot predict their next bizarre lurch.
(14) A video appeared to capture the moment the attack began; the time was 10.30pm as the truck lurched forward, heading east, gathering speed for a calculated, unstoppable death charge towards 30,000 people.
(15) He warned of a dangerous lurch to the far right on continental Europe but made a point of distinguishing Ukip from the likes of the Front National in France and Golden Dawn in Greece.
(16) If he was a cartoon character, he’d be … Lurch from the Addams Family .
(17) Runaway inflation, rising crime and corruption have blighted the country, and the government has been accused of lurching from one policy to another, with little continuity undermining confidence in the country's economy.
(18) We need to know what protections they will be required to give to students, to ensure they are not left in the lurch and ripped off by institutions that may be focused on shareholders rather than students’ interests.” David Morris (@dgmorris295) By my calculations, #HEWhitePaper and BIS confirmation of RPI as inflation measure could mean £10,000 fees by 2020-21.
(19) Miliband may not have lurched left, but he's begun to break with that failed consensus.
(20) The battle to prevent Greece lurching into disorderly default continues as lawmakers return to the Athens parliament on Thursday to approve the next stage in the hugely unpopular austerity package.