(a.) Having (such) a leaf or (so many) leaves; -- used in composition; as, broad-leafed; four-leafed.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dumplings could also be served pan-fried in browned butter and tossed with a bitter leaf salad and fresh sheep's cheese for a lighter, but equally delicious option.
(2) Subsequently the plant protein was partially purified from leaf extract.
(3) In autumn, leaf-heaps composted themselves on sunken patios, and were shovelled up by irritated owners of basement flats.
(4) Isolated nuclei from green leaf tissue of tomato plants infected with potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) were bound to microscope slides, fixed with formaldehyde and hybridized with biotinylated transcripts of cloned PSTVd cDNA.
(5) The nuclear membrane was highly deformed with a leaf-like profile in cross-section, possibly due to an interaction with the rod-like, condensed chromosomes.
(6) The mass of glycolic acid recovered from sunflower leaf tissue was proportional to the amount of tissue extracted.
(7) cDNA clones of potato virus X (PVXcp strain), potato virus Y (PVYo strain), potato leaf roll virus (PLRV) and potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTV) were used separately or combined for the detection of the corresponding RNAs in extracts of infected plants.
(8) Positive cDNA clones isolated from both a pea leaf and embryo lambda gt11 expression library using an antibody raised against the purified lipoamide dehydrogenase proved to be the product of a single gene.
(9) Betel leaf extract at the dose levels used in the present study did not affect the body weight gain among rats.
(10) Poison oak, ivy, and sumac dermatitis is a T-cell-mediated reaction against urushiol, the oil found in the leaf of the plants.
(11) Leaf TBC was usually third while fiber had the least TBC.
(12) Using this estimate, the pure Photosystem I emission spectrum was subtracted from the measured emission spectrum of a flashed leaf to give an emission spectrum representative of pure Photosystem II fluorescence at -196 degrees C. Emission spectra were also measured on flashed leaves which had been illuminated for several hours in continuous light.
(13) The effect of 50% methanolic extract (U-ext) from Bearberry leaf on immuno-inflammation was studied by contact dermatitis caused by picryl chloride (PC-CD) in mice.
(14) Several antisera from rabbits immunized with tobacco smoke components reacted by immunoprecipitation with tobacco smoke or leaf antigens.
(15) DNP treatment reduced ion absorption by leaf tissue.
(16) Instead, cell divisions are gradually restricted to the base of the leaf with localized sites of increased division at the preligule region.
(17) In the leaf-nosed bat, Macrotus californicus, a 4.5-month period of delayed early embryogenesis (October-March) precedes a 3.5-month period of normal embryogenesis (March-June).
(18) Plastic responses in leaf form resulting from ontogenetic or external influences are initiated very early in primordial development and are brought about by effects on the rate and direction of cell division and expansion in different regions of the primordium.
(19) Northern blot analysis of infected leaf tissue extracts revealed the presence of an oligomeric series of plus RNAs (of monomer size and greater) but minus RNAs were present only as high molecular weight species of heterogeneous size.
(20) And, hey, until Friday morning, most surveillance reform advocates were worried about the Senate ramming through the currently neutered version of the USA Freedom Act as its fig leaf of reform, before going back to business as usual and proposing bills that will give the NSA more power – not less.
Leased
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Lease
Example Sentences:
(1) Mindful of their own health ahead of their mission, astronauts at the Russia-leased launchpad in Kazakhstan remain in strict isolation in the days ahead of any launch to avoid exposure to infection.
(2) In 2005, Westbrook bought the £190m head lease for Dolphin Square, once the largest block of flats in the world with a colourful list of former residents, including more than 70 MPs, at least 10 Lords and a number of intelligence agency personnel.
(3) The Labour leadership election gained a new lease of life today as parliament's first black female MP, Diane Abbott , entered the race and the party extended the deadline for nominations, giving extra time for new candidates to emerge.
(4) In 2012, the state and county committed $226m to the team in a new lease deal.
(5) In addition, another 25 million acres of state and federal lands in the U.S. Arctic — onshore and off — are open to oil and gas leasing; of that,13.5 million acres have already been leased.
(6) A student who lost her leg in the Alton Towers rollercoaster crash says she has been given a new lease of life by a hi-tech prosthetic leg and that she is stronger for her harrowing experience.
(7) Many articles published on the topic of lease financing point only to the benefits that may be derived.
(8) The MD-83 aircraft, owned by Spanish company Swiftair and leased by Algeria's flagship carrier, disappeared from radar less than an hour after it took off from Ouagadougou for Algiers.
(9) Although providing a new lease on life is very rewarding within itself, it can also be stressful for all involved.
(10) His lieutenants have floated the possibility that whoever takes over our roads could get them on 100-year leases – which would just be transferring a public asset to some private-sector oligarch.
(11) The retailer has also taken a £70m hit from onerous leases, and distribution centre closures in Harlow and Weybridge cost £30m.
(12) NT chief minister Adam Giles said the decision to lease the port rather than sell allowed the government to ensure conditions are upheld.
(13) But landlords often put your rent up massively at the end of your lease, meaning you have to move every two years."
(14) The village of Point Hope, Alaska, joined by numerous native and environmental groups, is now challenging offshore development on the 2.9 million acres in the Chukchi Sea, contending that MMS violated federal environmental laws when it conducted the lease sales.
(15) Her rent was increased by $20 as soon as her fixed-term lease ended, despite already being more expensive than similar properties in the area.
(16) That approval was therefore invalid, she said, adding the company was yet to obtain a mining lease for Alpha.
(17) But as Kathimerini.com reports, the plan is to definitely to lease the islands, not sell them forever: The fund reviewed 562 of the estimated 6,000 islands and islets under Greek sovereignty.
(18) The company hired by Royal Dutch Shell plc in 2012 to drill on petroleum leases in the Chukchi — Sugarland, Texas-based Noble Drilling US LLC — in December agreed to pay $12.2m after pleading guilty to eight felony environmental and maritime crimes on board the Noble Discoverer.
(19) However, Adani has turned to the national native title tribunal to override this objection, which would allow the state government to issue a lease for the mine.
(20) Contracts with a Lend Lease-led consortium were signed last week and construction is due to begin this year.