(n.) A tract of low or level land producing grass which is mown for hay; any field on which grass is grown for hay.
(n.) Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rives and in marshy places by the sea; as, the salt meadows near Newark Bay.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a meadow; of the nature of a meadow; produced, growing, or living in, a meadow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Meadow vole dams, housed in a 14L:10D photoperiod were injected daily 3 h before onset of darkness with 10 micrograms melatonin.
(2) The results are negative in swampy meadow -- habitats on siliceous soils.
(3) On returning to the courtyard you can take an optional loop through the bee and butterfly wildflower meadow – the start of the path is just behind the engine shed building.
(4) The effect of irrigation of meadows with the water of the river.
(5) The hypothesis that sex differences in maze learning result from sex differences in activity was tested with wild-caught prairie (Microtus ochrogaster) and meadow (M. pennsylvanicus) voles.
(6) Meadow voles exposed to house dust mites from the homes of patients did not develop serologic or pathologic evidence of infection due to rickettsiae in the spotted fever and typhus groups or Coxiella burnetii.
(7) Land reclamation measures carried out on the territory of a flood-plain-paludal focus of tularemia change the ecological and biocenotic links, which leads to the formation of a meadow-field focus with other-than-before sources and vectors of tularemia infection.
(8) Three bacterial isolates, a Pseudomonas sp., a Bacillus sp., and an Arthrobacter sp., commonly isolated from a hummocky sedge-moss meadow at Devon Island, N.W.T., Canada, were selected for further taxonomic characterization and for a study of the effects of temperature and limiting carbon source on growth.
(9) The site of the crash was in the marshy Ruhr meadows.
(10) The results demonstrate that meadow-mice, Columbian ground-squirrels, golden-mantled ground-squirrels, chipmunks and snowshoe hares (the latter to a lesser extent), when bitten by infected ticks, respond with rickettsiaemias of sufficient length and degree to infect normal larval D. andersoni.
(11) Anna asks, practically hanging a bell round Jill's neck and herding her into a meadow.
(12) Strauss uses his vast orchestra to depict the experiences of his character on the mountain: a distant hunting party (listen for the 12 offstage horns), waterfalls, meadows, a dark, threatening forest, losing the path, the triumphant view from the summit and the best storm in music since Rossini's William Tell Overture (listen out for the wind machine).
(13) He is thought to live in the Boreham Wood area, and featured in the match at Meadow Park, although he was unable to get on the scoresheet as the hosts lost 5-0.
(14) Do I think it gives the president a loss?” asked Mark Meadows, the chairman of the Freedom Caucus.
(15) Mycocarriers were most frequently found among small mammals living in corn fields (5.9%), less frequently in water meadows (0.9) and sporadically in forests and bushes (0.1%).
(16) Back in the meadow I followed a worn path that was most likely part of the badger’s nightly beat.
(17) The results of a serological survey of a free-living population of meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus) in Pinawa, Manitoba (Canada) showed that these animals possessed antibodies to six of the eleven viruses tested for, namely: reovirus type 3, murine encephalomyelitis agent, ectromelia virus, murine adenovirus, murine hepatitis virus and lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus.
(18) "Embarking on new projects, we sometimes encounter unexpected challenges, and Street View has been no exception," said Google spokesman Taj Meadows, adding that "Street View abides by Thailand's local laws and only features imagery taken on public property".
(19) A New Yorker cartoon portrays a woman in an elegant boutique asking whether they have something to, “Fill that dark empty space in my soul.” As Dana Meadows observed , we seek to meet non-material needs with things.
(20) Grass-mowing of swampy meadows at the beginning of summer drying distinctly restricts numbers of snails, when Zonitoides nitidus lives in the habitats.
Valley
Definition:
(n.) The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country, including usually the bed of a stream, with frequently broad alluvial plains on one or both sides of the stream. Also used figuratively.
(n.) The place of meeting of two slopes of a roof, which have their plates running in different directions, and form on the plan a reentrant angle.
(n.) The depression formed by the meeting of two slopes on a flat roof.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as other patients who lived at the periphery of the Valserine valley do not appear to be related to any patients living in the valley, and because there has been considerable immigration into the valley, a number of hypotheses to explain the distribution of the disease in the region remain possible.
(2) We always feel like it's Hobbitshire – a green valley where nothing happens."
(3) In 1971 the Fountain Valley (Calif.) High School established a program at Fairview State Hospital in Costa Mesa.
(4) In primary culture, CSM cells attached to the culture vessels by 48 to 72 h, proliferated by 3 to 7 d, and reached confluency by 14 to 17 d with a "hill-and-valley" pattern.
(5) Although selenium deficiency in livestock is consequently now rare in Oregon, selenium-deficient soils and attendant selenium deficiency conditions have been reported near the Kesterson Wildlife Refuge in the Northern part of the San Joaquin Valley, California, where, paradoxically, selenium toxicity in wildfowl, nesting near evaporation ponds, occurred and attracted wide attention.
(6) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
(7) Even the landscape is secretive: vast tracts of crown land and hidden valleys with nothing but a dead end road and lonely farmhouse, with a tractor and trailer pulled across the farmyard for protection.
(8) 2589 sera from pathology laboratories in towns in the Murray Valley gave additional evidence of community immunity to flaviviruses and suggested some increase in the proportion reactive between January and May 1974.
(9) Wastewater from Mexico city is used to irrigate over 85 000 hectares, mainly of fodder and cereal crops in the Mezquital Valley.
(10) By means of immunoreactivity for spot 35 protein, a novel cerebellar Purkinje cell-specific protein, the regional heterogeneity among non-pigmented ciliary epithelial cells of rats was demonstrated with reference to the antero-posterior and crest-valley directions of individual ciliary epithelial folds in immature and mature eyes.
(11) Compounds 3a and 3c exhibited significant activity against vaccinia virus in vitro, whereas 4a was effective against Rift Valley fever virus in mice.
(12) Two “Belgian journalists” had been in the Panjshir valley of northern Afghanistan for weeks, supposedly waiting to interview Ahmad Shah Massoud, the so-called Lion of the Panjshir, leader of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, an al-Qaida adversary.
(13) At the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, Netanyahu declared he would not “uproot a single settler” from the Jordan Valley.
(14) The antibody response against flaviviruses tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), Kyasanur Forest disease (KFD), Murray Valley encephalitis (MVE), West Nile fever (WNF), Japanese B encephalitis (JE), dengue 2 (DEN-2), and yellow fever (YF) was studied in humans after administration of an inactivated TBE virus vaccine.
(15) The data discussed in this article were gathered through use of a retrospective cohort survey five years following a major flood in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania.
(16) A recent study of foetal alcohol syndrome in the Fitzroy Valley, in remote Western Australia, found that 120 out of 1,000 children born in the largely Aboriginal community were affected by the condition, which impairs brain development and decision making and is connected with high rates of involvement in the justice system.
(17) The 5' non-coding region of the genomes of 11 isolates of Murray Valley encephalitis virus from Australia and Papua New Guinea were examined by primer extension sequencing.
(18) As part of a concerted effort to avoid the in danger listing, the Queensland government came up with an alternative plan to dump the sediment within an enclosed area of the Caley Valley wetlands, which is considered nationally important habitat for more than 15 species of migratory birds.
(19) The list is split between on and off-screen talent, including Sherlock producer Sue Vertue, the writer of Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley, Sally Wainwright, and Elisabeth Murdoch , founder of MasterChef producer Shine.
(20) Non-discrimination laws chart Although the decisive manner in which leaders from Silicon Valley and the business community rallied against – and ultimately helped change – the Indiana law marked a major turning point, Talbot conceded that the project itself is unfinished.