(n.) Any plant of the genus Carex, perennial, endogenous herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy places. They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib. There are several hundred species.
(n.) A flock of herons.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) This factor would have been 1200 if lead aerosols had not collected on sedge leaves and circtumvented the tendency by sedge to exclude lead from the nutritive metals it absorbed from soil moisture.
(3) This ratio decreased by an overall factor of 200 in proceeding from rock, to soil moisture, to sedge, to vole.
(4) The plant compound, 6-methoxy-2-benzoxazolinone (6-MBOA), is present in vegetatively growing grasses and sedges and acts to trigger reproduction in other rodent species exposed to short days.
(5) A sedge, Mariscus congestus (Vahl) C.B.Cl., was a useful indicator of Aedes (Ochlerotatus) juppi McIntosh oviposition areas.
(6) B. globosus shows a clear predilection for the sedge Cyperus exaltatus as support for oviposition.
(7) In a market study male turkeys were raised on floor pens containing peat or wood shavings and fed 0, 5, or 10% reed-sedge peat as a diluent of a typical corn-soybean meal mash diet.
(8) Lesser pollens are sorrel, willow, pine, juniper, sedge, lamb's-quarters, wormwood, plantain, and others.
(9) parasitic on four species of wild cereals and two species of sedge.
(10) Larvae were most numerous in areas dominated by arrow-arum (Peltandra virginica) and maidencane (Panicum hemitomon), less so in areas dominated by sedges (Carex spp.)
(11) While gathering sedges or tamarinds, adult males sat in one place longer than others and obtained more food per sitting.
(12) Most of the lead contained in sedge and voles (mountain meadow mice) within one of the most pristine, remote valleys in the United States is not natural but came from smelter fumes and gasoline exhausts.
(13) This finding is consistent with one of the two principal views of grass phylogeny in suggesting that Poaceae and Cyperaceae (sedges) are not closest relatives.
(14) The upper levels, and the shape of the roofs thatched with straw or sedge, are conjecture, so several different styles are being tried out, included thatching over steeper ridges and shallow curved hazel hoops.
(15) Wombats consume grasses and sedges which are often highly fibrous.
(16) The finding, gathering, and preparing of sedge corms and of seeds of tamarind fruit were described in detail.
(17) Clavicipitaceous endophytes (Ascomycetes) are distributed worldwide in many grasses and sedges forming a perennial and often mutualistic association with their hosts.
(18) It was a watery anomaly, a pond in dunes, surrounded by thick tussocks of sand sedge many, many miles from the sea.
(19) The authors feel that friction with clothing or with scrub pads made of sedge (a very common practice amongst mexicans in the bath room) against clavicular protuberances is fundamental in its pathogenesis.
(20) injuring sedge have the haploid number of chromosomes n=18.
Sledge
Definition:
(n.) A strong vehicle with low runners or low wheels; or one without wheels or runners, made of plank slightly turned up at one end, used for transporting loads upon the snow, ice, or bare ground; a sled.
(n.) A hurdle on which, formerly, traitors were drawn to the place of execution.
(n.) A sleigh.
(n.) A game at cards; -- called also old sledge, and all fours.
(v. i. & t.) To travel or convey in a sledge or sledges.
(v. t.) A large, heavy hammer, usually wielded with both hands; -- called also sledge hammer.
Example Sentences:
(1) The need for additional postoperative analgesia was seen earliest in the patients who received a knee prosthesis of the sledge type (P less than 0.05).
(2) The mechanical efficiencies (ME) of pure positive and pure negative work as well as of stretch-shortening cycle (SSC) exercise were investigated with a special sledge apparatus.
(3) A series of 271 children, injured in tobogganing and sledging accidents was studied.
(4) With a sledge cryomicrotome, we sectioned 273 lumbar facet joints in 38 adult cadavers and correlated the anatomic appearance of the joints with CT and magnetic resonance (MR) images.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Watch Sister Sledge perform We Are Family It was fun, but challenging.
(6) Take in the views and then hire a sledge for the journey down the Schlittelweg.
(7) Half of the 27 sledge dogs at the station were found to carry coagulase-positive staphylococci but this did not appear to be of pathological significance to their human handlers.
(8) A consecutive prospective series of 102 knees (90 patients) had unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (St. Georg "sledge") between 1973 and 1979 for gonarthrosis, Stages 2-4.
(9) A child once asked me – and you know that kids ask difficult questions – he asked me, ‘Father, what did God do before he created the world?’” The audience, which included Franklin, Sister Sledge, Mark Wahlberg, the comedian Jim Gaffigan and other warm-up acts, laughed, and the pope continued with a smile.
(10) Most accidents occurred on a slope especially designated for tobogganing and sledging.
(11) First experiences in allo-arthroplastics of the knee with 82 Guepar- and 28 sledge protheses are reported.
(12) Detailed electromyographic (EMG) analysis of primarily triceps brachii muscle was carried out on subjects who performed 100 repeated and exhaustive stretch-shortening cycle (SSC) exercises on a special sledge apparatus incorporating a force plate.
(13) Between November 1985 and January 1986, three men manhauled sledges 875 miles, following Scott's original route to the South Pole.
(14) The fatigue contractions were performed on submaximal levels but the before-after comparison included also maximal "drop jumps" on the sledge as well as falls on to the floor.
(15) 'Kokkinakis banged your girlfriend': Nick Kyrgios sledges Stan Wawrinka Read more On a changeover during the second set of their match at the Rogers Cup in Montreal, Kyrgios told the world No5: “Kokkinakis banged your girlfriend, sorry to tell you that mate.” Wawrinka ignored the insult and withdrew in the third set with a back injury.
(16) The presented scheme of tissue treatment involving standard sledge microtome, acetone, thermostat heat provides 25-35 micron sections.
(17) For the man who has swum through ice and hauled sledges for 1,200km it will surely be a walk in the park.
(18) Over this time, I have completed six expeditions on the Arctic sea ice, sledge-hauling more than 1,500 miles and spending more than 223 days in temperatures well below zero.
(19) He told a story about a day when he was 12 years old, soon after he had lost a leg to bone cancer, when his father took him out sledging.
(20) The ad, which cost about £1m to make, features a young boy and what appears to be a real penguin playing together, going sledging, visiting the park and bouncing on the trampoline to the tune of John Lennon’s Real Love sung by British singer-songwriter Tom Odell, who was used by Burberry in its online Christmas film last year.