(n.) A plant reared from the seed, as distinguished from one propagated by layers, buds, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) In aqueous solution, N-substituted isoxazolin-5-one derivatives, which occur in high amounts in seedlings of the tribe Vicieae, can be shown to undergo a proton exchange at C-4, indicative of their aromatic character.
(2) The PKABA1 transcript can also be induced by supplying low concentrations of ABA, and coordinate increases in ABA levels and PKABA1 mRNA occur when seedlings are water-stressed.
(3) Most definitive results were obtained when seedlings were ground in the presence of sand and in a medium containing sorbitol.
(4) Germinal excisions resulted in fully green seedlings.
(5) There were no detectable differences in the patterns of histone variants from immature grain (3-16 days after fertilization), from mature embryos, from coleoptiles and roots of 4-day-old, etiolated seedlings and from leaves of 10-day-old, light-grown seedlings.
(6) The maximal level as well as the kinetics of the induction were comparable between the suspension culture and soybean seedlings.
(7) Thirty-day-old corn seedlings, grown in the greenhouse with different concentrations of supplemental nitrate nitrogen, were moved to a constant-temperature growth chamber and sealed in a 560-liter tent made of polyvinyl chloride.
(8) The biological effect of vibration of Lactuca sativa dry seeds and seedlings cultivated at optimal (20 degrees C) and suboptimal (4 degrees C) temperatures was studied.
(9) The mRNAs begin to accumulate during late embryogeny, reach maximal levels in seedling cotyledons, are not detected at significant amounts in leaves, and are distributed similarly in cotyledons and axes of seedlings.
(10) Experiments involving one of the clear pathogenicity mutants indicated that the recovery of mutant cells from turnip seedlings 24 hr after inoculation was lower than for the wild type.
(11) The fourteenth case in the literature of lacrimal sac melanoma and possibly the first by tear seedling is illustrated.
(12) The development of PSII complex precedes that of PSI during the differentiation of B and M chloroplasts in expanding leaves of light-grown plants and during the greening of dark-grown etiolated seedlings.
(13) Hormone-like activity and efficiency of nitrate uptake by rice seedlings were stimulated by EAB and HEf, while HSp showed only negligible activity.
(14) Short pulses of red light induce in etiolated barley seedlings an enhanced synthesis of plastidic benzoquinones and vitamin K1, which can be reverted by subsequent irradiation with short pulses of far-red.
(15) The diurnal fluctuation in Cat3 mRNA persists when the seedlings are transferred to continuous light or darkness, which indicates the influence of a circadian rhythm.
(16) RNA blot analysis showed that HPR transcript levels rise significantly in the first eight days of light-grown seedling development.
(17) The results indicated that the mutant contains wild-type levels of the light-labile type 1 phytochrome polypeptide (PHYA), which has an apparent molecular mass of approximately 120 kD, but shows less than 1% (detection limit) of a light-stable polypeptide recognized by mAT1 in wild-type seedlings.
(18) A second category of 13 clones hybridized to transcripts that increased in abundance during post-germinative development of the seedling.
(19) CG-1 activity is constitutively expressed in tobacco seedlings grown in the absence of ultraviolet light as well as in seedlings induced for chalcone synthase gene expression by ultraviolet light irradiation.
(20) The oil was found non-phytotoxic to the seedling growth and seed germination of wheat.
Wildling
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Refusing to play in the Seven Kingdoms league, the all black kit helps the team in matches against Wildling FC, who never bother to wear the same colours.
(2) Qhorin Halfhand is revered for his ability to live deep into Wildling territory for years on end.
(3) When Game of Thrones finally – finally – returns on 6 April, the most eternal of authors George RR Martin ’s conflicts will be an engine of the show’s fourth season: the battle between the men of the Night’s Watch, who guard the 700ft-high icy border of The Realm and the Wildling army that seeks to cross it.
(4) Substitute the Wildlings for the Taliban and the White Walkers for al-Qaida, and Game of Thrones has a fair amount of wisdom to impart about an actual war.
(5) The Wildling, Ygritte, born of a cold world, now simmers with love, rejection and violence.
(6) For Arya and the similarly transgressive Brienne of Tarth, though, the stifling conventions of a woman's place in the Seven Kingdoms offer none of the freedoms, military, social or sexual, enjoyed by the wildling fighter Ygritte among the tribes of the Free Folk north of the Wall.
(7) Finally, Ned Stark's bastard, Jon Snow, rejoined the Night's Watch after a jaunt with the Wildlings left him with the lesson that love hurts.
(8) The united Wildling forces are attempting a pincer assault on the Watch, slipping a small force beyond the Wall to attack the Night’s Watch stronghold while the main advance will march on the Wall directly.
(9) Wildling woman Ygritte hits at the heart of the Night’s Watch strategic blindness after her captor, Jon Snow, says that they’re both people of the North.
(10) In the north, a depleted Night's Watch seems overmatched against the inexorable Wall advances of Mance Rayder's army of wildlings, which in turn is being trailed by an even more formidable foe: the undead White Walkers.
(11) Since 2009, Sall has practised farmer-managed natural regeneration (FMNR), protecting wildlings and pruning stumps that coppice so they rapidly grow or regrow into trees.
(12) But Jon Snow betrayed Rayder's, and the Night's Watch will be ready for Jon's spurned girlfriend Ygritte and Mance's merry Wildlings.
(13) In the meantime, here's what we learnt today: Raul Meireles looks a bit like a Wildling Parking an octopus in the middle of Oxford Street is likely to get the Twitter gag merchants going The name Ting Tings will never stop being funny Good night.
(14) But instead of disbanding once the threat receded, the Watch allowed its mission to creep, embracing the folly that it protects The Realm against the odd Wildling who crosses the Wall and steals people’s stuff.
(15) The coming reckoning is the wages of the Watch attacking the Wildlings when they should have been defending them against a common enemy.
(16) One table features the King, the Don, and the Plan, none of whom would look out of place as a wildling general in Game of Thrones.
(17) The King beyond the Wall Finally, Mance Rayder, with an army of Wildlings and the name of a terrible glam rock band, is marching south on the Wall.
(18) He forms raid squads to disrupt Wildling armies by emulating flat Wilding organizational structures and light-footprint tactics.