(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.
Pine
Definition:
(n.) Woe; torment; pain.
(v.) To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.
(v.) To grieve or mourn for.
(v. i.) To suffer; to be afflicted.
(v. i.) To languish; to lose flesh or wear away, under any distress or anexiety of mind; to droop; -- often used with away.
(v. i.) To languish with desire; to waste away with longing for something; -- usually followed by for.
(n.) Any tree of the coniferous genus Pinus. See Pinus.
(n.) The wood of the pine tree.
(n.) A pineapple.
Example Sentences:
(1) Descriptive features of the syndrome in children, adults and adolescents are given based on the respective work of Pine, Masterson and Kernberg.
(2) Hiddleston, who played spy Jonathan Pine in the Night Manager, has played down speculation that he would take on the role, recently telling the BBC’s Graham Norton Show: “The position isn’t vacant as far as I’m aware.
(3) Might pine martens suppress other predators that affect capercaillies?
(4) Workers exposed to pine and fibre dust have more respiratory symptoms and a greater risk of airflow obstruction.
(5) In areas where there are lots of pine martens, there are lots of red squirrels," she said.
(6) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
(7) We first developed a method for isolating from pine tissue the very high molecular weight DNA necessary for the preparation of libraries requiring large inserts.
(8) Teflon and Lucite were used to represent synthetic materials, and dry pine was chosen as a type of organic material.
(9) The American has not secured a major title since Torrey Pines for the 2008 US Open and, while overhauling Jack Nicklaus's record total of 18 majors was once a matter of "when", it is now very much a case of "if".
(10) I think we all pine for the good old days when politicians actually wrote bills, and bills actually became laws and can I rub your arms a little?
(11) This team may have limped to the 50-point mark with their draw against the champions, but they have been pining for the end of this campaign for months.
(12) Unlike aspiration pneumonitis, which follows petroleum distillate ingestion, chemical pneumonitis from pine oil cleaner may occur from gastrointestinal absorption of pine oil and deposition in lung tissue.
(13) Four hundred eighty-five Native American students in grades 7-12 from two remote sites--Pine Ridge, SD, and Many Farms, AZ--and one nonremote site--Lapwai, ID--were scored for the DAI.
(14) You can also enjoy the gorge from the Pine Creek Rail Trail : a 62-mile biking and horseback riding path that runs from the town of Jersey Shore in the south to Stokesdale in the north, passing through the heart of the gorge in the middle.
(15) In 2012, Europe made €12m available to save threatened pine trees in Portugal and Spain.
(16) The serosurvey was performed shortly after a large hepatitis A epidemic on the Pine Ridge reservation in 1983-84, and immediately before a large hepatitis A epidemic on the Rosebud reservation in 1985-86.
(17) The psbA gene, encoding the D1 protein of photosystem II, was found to be duplicated in the chloroplast genome of two pine species, Pinus contorta and P. banksiana.
(18) FIVE MORE FRENCH COASTAL GEMS Marseille grotto Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A 40-minute walk from Marseille’s Luminy university campus, Calanque de Sugiton, the most picturesque of the city’s rugged, limestone coves has blue-green waters, twisted pine trees and a narrow island-rock to swim out to known as Le Torpilleur.
(19) Bratwurst grilled by use of pine-cones, spruce-cones and hard wood contained on average 28 ppb BaP.
(20) My undergraduate essays were handwritten, but in my third year I sent my first email using a green interface called Pine.