(n.) A small person; a pet; -- sometimes used contemptuously.
(n.) A substance of vegetable origin, consisting of roots and fibers, moss, etc., in various stages of decomposition, and found, as a kind of turf or bog, usually in low situations, where it is always more or less saturated with water. It is often dried and used for fuel.
Example Sentences:
(1) A hypothesis that the unexpected similarity of infection in the two strains was related to differences in rates of contact with the peat trays was not supported by preliminary data on mouse behaviour that revealed equal frequency of contact with peat trays between strains.
(2) By its calorific value the mycelial waste is equal to brown coal or peat.
(3) From the typed letters on Clarence House notepaper underlined in his own hand, to the clever blend of courteousness and implied threat used in his own correspondence and by his righthand man, Sir Michael Peat, the case has revealed in detail how the prince wields his power.
(4) Also missing from the negotiating text is any provision to protect and restore the world's peat soils, which account for 6% of all global C02 emissions.
(5) Corrected radiocarbon dates directly from bone and from peat matrix gave consistent ages in the range of 7,790 to 8,290 yr before present (BP).
(6) But Heathrow’s new sustainability plan suggests other ways to offset the leap in emissions, including by restoring British peat bogs.
(7) The new compounds phenylethanolaminotetralines (PEAT), unlike the reference beta-adrenoceptor agonists isoprenaline (Iso), ritodrine (Ri) and salbutamol (Sal), produced half-maximal inhibition of spontaneous motility of rat isolated proximal colon at substantially lower concentrations (EC50 2.7-30 nM) than those inducing beta 2-adrenoceptor-mediated responses (relaxation of guinea-pig isolated trachea and rat uterus) and had virtually no chronotropic action (EC50 greater than 3 x 10(5) M) on the guinea-pig isolated atrium (a beta 1-adrenoceptor-mediated response).
(8) In order to optimize cultivation of lipid synthesizing yeast on peat oxidates, the above compounds should be added in certain concentrations.
(9) In a rather strange piece of royal doublethink, Peat said this would not do, as it "would suggest the personal involvement of the prince".
(10) Others took hold when peat bogs dried for agricultural use self-ignited, burning underground.
(11) It was revealed that the peat extract causes a decrease in the production of the A1 spermatogonia, and as a result a decrease in the intensity of spermatogenesis.
(12) It was observed that radon baths had mainly an analgesic effect, peat or paraffin poultices as well as diadynamics were particularly useful in cases with increased tonus of paravertebral muscles.
(13) Concentrations of gamma-emitting natural radionuclides and 137Cs were analyzed in the size fractionated fly-ash emissions from a 100-MWt peat- and oil-fired power plant.
(14) It would have involved 181 huge turbines each requiring concrete bases 20 ft deep, roads and cables, and would have destroyed a swathe of this rare peat moorland.
(15) However, Peat said the trustees "honestly believe it would not have made any difference given the direction the BBC chose to go".
(16) At that time, Charles’s then private secretary, Sir Michael Peat, said it was his “duty to make sure the views of ordinary people that might not otherwise be heard receive some exposure”.
(17) The respirable fraction of peat dust recorded in the breathing zone of the workers correlated significantly with a decrease in forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1).
(18) To study the levels and distributions of radionuclides released in the Chernobyl accident, we sampled surface peat from 62 sites in Southern and Central Finland and measured 131I, 134Cs, 137Cs, 132Te, 140Ba, 103Ru, 90Sr, 141Ce, and 95Zr.
(19) Losing forests in these areas could also affect leaders’ efforts to rein in greenhouse gas emissions to tackle climate change, the study said, because of the amount of carbon stored in trees and peat.
(20) "You can't replace peat with concrete, and ever hope to get away with it.
Sphagnum
Definition:
(n.) A genus of mosses having white leaves slightly tinged with red or green and found growing in marshy places; bog moss; peat moss.
Example Sentences:
(1) While environmental samples of moss from the Wisconsin supplier were negative, Sporothrix schenckii was cultured from multiple samples of the sphagnum moss obtained from one of six Pennsylvania tree nurseries, representing the nursery that was identified as the source for 79 (94%) of the moss-associated cases.
(2) Furthermore, pathogenic M. simiae was found in sphagnum vegetation of Madagascar, first time isolated in the environment until now.
(3) For the microbial growth well predisponated hyaline cells with their porous cell wall and hollow spaces possess probably a mechanism, which is effective against microbial contamination of the productive head region of Sphagnum vegetation.
(4) A 42-year-old female acquired an acute respiratory infection one week after working in a sphagnum moss packing plant.
(5) Intact sphagnum vegetation from moors in south Sweden and coastal areas of west Norway contained cultivable mycobacteria in 32% and 30% of the specimens, respectively.
(6) Besides the habitat-specific mycobacterial species in sphagnum vegetation, like M. sphagni, M. gordonae and M. madagascariense, potentially pathogenic species, like M. avium, M. scrofulaceum and M. xenopi and M. marinum, were found.
(7) crop soils), poorly humified samples (Sphagnum peat, O-horizon from woodland), or a clay mineral was employed.
(8) After the inoculation in the head region of sphagnum moss vegetation (Sph.
(9) Field collected specimens were found to be best transported in styrofoam containers lined with wet filter paper or containing natural substrate and vegetation instead of Sphagnum moss.
(10) The source of contamination of the sphagnum moss that caused this epidemic and sphagnum moss associated with similar epidemics is unknown.
(11) The possibility of M. leprae surviving in sphagnum vegetation was assessed by inoculation of clinically derived M. leprae into the grey layer of the sphagnum.
(12) Sporothrix schenckii was cultured from the implicated batch of sphagnum moss but not from other batches.
(13) For cultivation of Aedes togoi the aquatic infusion of fallen leaves, peat and dry sphagnum (0.15%S) was used and a larval diet (children's haematogen with an addition of polyvitamin "Undevit" and glutamic acid) was offered.
(14) CP grow best in three parts sphagnum moss peat to one part perlite, although the CPS is trialling peat-free mixes using coir.
(15) All cases were associated with Wisconsin-grown sphagnum moss.
(16) A biomonitoring study was made of the atmospheric deposition of arsenic and selenium across northern Canada utilizing Sphagnum fuscum moss.
(17) Six soils, two Sphagnum peat samples and a clay mineral were irradiated with 40 and 80 kGy (4 and 8 Mrad) from a 60Co source.
(18) reach the mycobacteria the hyaline cells of Sphagnum (Fig.
(19) The trace element concentrations varied among trophic groups of fungi: saprophytic species (S) and those parasitic on Sphagnum (Sph) exhibited the highest concentrations, while wood-decomposing (Wd) species displayed the lowest.
(20) An examination of 18 sphagnum samples collected in two different biotopes of the coastal region of southeastern Madagascar revealed an unexpectedly high positivity for mycobacteria (83.3%).