(n.) Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.
(n.) Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree.
(n.) A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.
(n.) A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.
(n.) Wood; timber.
(n.) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead.
(v. t.) To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel.
(v. t.) To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree; as, to tree a boot. See Tree, n., 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arterial compliance of great vessels can be studied through the Doppler evaluation of pulsed wave velocity along the arterial tree.
(2) The only sign of life was excavators loading trees on to barges to take to pulp mills.
(3) These findings suggest that aerosolization of ATP into the cystic fibrosis-affected bronchial tree might be hazardous in terms of enhancement of parenchymal damage, which would result from neutrophil elastase release, and in terms of impaired respiratory lung function.
(4) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(5) Anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia is characterized by an absence of seromucous glands in the oropharynx and tracheobronchial tree, making children with this disease prone to viral and bacterial respiratory infections.
(6) Celebrity woodlanders Tax breaks and tree-hugging already draw the wealthy and well-known to buy British forests.
(7) A new family tree of the tyrannosaurs in the paper considers Lythronax to be very close to Tyrannosaurus and its nearest relatives.
(8) Increasing awareness of disorders such as coronary arterial spasm, functional impairment of subendocardial blood flow and the possible role of variant patterns of anatomic distribution of the coronary arterial tree, will provide a better understanding of their significance as determining or contributing factors in patients with the anginal syndrome.
(9) It's of her and Barack Obama planting an olive tree in Uhuru park in the city centre in October 2006.
(10) The alterations of dendritic trees of pyramidal neurons of layer III of visual cortex of the rat exposed to the influence of space flight aboard biosputnik "Cosmos-1887" were studied and the results are described to illustrate the methods power.
(11) The trachea and the bronchial tree (first through seventh order branches) both synthesized alpha1(II) chains.
(12) Using a large clinic population with adequate controls, significant correlation between ragweed, grass or tree pollen sensitivity and the dates of birth was not obtained.
(13) The criteria selected by a classification tree method were similar: palpable purpura, age less than or equal to 20 years at disease onset, biopsy showing granulocytes around arterioles or venules, and gastrointestinal bleeding.
(14) The results are consistent with an action of banana tree juice on the molecule responsible for excitation-contraction coupling in skeletal muscle, resulting in a labilization of intracellular Ca2+.
(15) Studying the bronchial tree on the chest x-ray it is possible to indicate the visceral situs with asplenia or with polysplenia.
(16) Reconstruction of the intrahepatic biliary tree was carried out in all patients using intrahepatic cholangiojejunostomies between common segmental hepatic stomata and a Roux-en-Y jejunal loop.
(17) Axonal trees display differential growth during development or regeneration; that is, some branches stop growing and often retract while other branches continue to grow and form stable synaptic connections.
(18) When the vascular supply is abnormal, reconstruction of the vascular tree of one or both organs may be needed.
(19) A major outbreak in Kent in 2012 saw 2,000 trees felled.
(20) "We are alarmed to see the government is even wavering about continuing its programme of tracing, testing and destroying infected young ash trees.
Wattle
Definition:
(n.) A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods.
(n.) A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
(n.) A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile.
(n.) Barbel of a fish.
(n.) The astringent bark of several Australian trees of the genus Acacia, used in tanning; -- called also wattle bark.
(n.) The trees from which the bark is obtained. See Savanna wattle, under Savanna.
(v. t.) To bind with twigs.
(v. t.) To twist or interweave, one with another, as twigs; to form a network with; to plat; as, to wattle branches.
(v. t.) To form, by interweaving or platting twigs.
Example Sentences:
(1) The group given the small multilamellar positively charged liposome also showed significant delayed-type hypersensitivity (wattle swelling) (P less than or equal to 0.05).
(2) Beta stimulation with isoproterenol markedly reduced R and increased Q in normothermic birds, suggesting the presence of beta receptors in the wattle vasculature.
(3) The presence of cytoplasmic dihydrotestosterone receptors in the lungs, the comb, the wattle, and the ear lobes of the cock was demonstrated by sucrose density-gradient centrifugation.
(4) The mud and wattle huts in which pupils were taught have now been replaced with seven permanent classrooms.
(5) Photograph: Eamonn Mccabe for the Guardian When she was a child living in a Tudor cottage in rural Cheshire, the walls were lumpy, and badly painted, wattle and daub.
(6) The faecal output of strongyle eggs was significantly related to breed, polledness, presence of wattles and age.
(7) Wattle reactions to an Eimeria tenella antigen and phytohemagglutinin (PHA) were studied in chickens infected with E. tenella.
(8) Until now the school has used temporary mud-and-wattle structures with grass-thatched roofs that sway in the wind or, in rough weather, simply collapse.
(9) Instead, let Australia summon up the sentiments of Henry Lawson's iconic 1891 poem, Freedom on the Wallaby , for today it is not the rebel's blood but a callous disregard for the vulnerable that "stains the wattle".
(10) The preoperative diagnosis may be suggested by the "turkey wattle sign" (i.e., fluctuation in the size of the mass with bending the head downward).
(11) Nitrogen and atom-% 15N excess (15N') were determined in the bones, the feathers and the remaining body (skin, lungs and windpipe, head with comb and wattle, lower leg without bones and with skin, pancreas and fatty tissue).
(12) Alpha blockade with phenoxybenzamine also resulted in pronounced vasodilatation, suggesting tonic alpha-sympathetic tone in the wattle vasculature under normothermic conditions.
(13) During moderate cooling, vasoconstriction in the feet and wattles of broody hens (but not of non-broody hens) freed non-nutrient blood flow for redistribution to the brood patches.
(14) Although delayed hypersensitivity was confirmed by delayed wattle reaction in 2-month-old chickens sensitized with living S pullorum, the sensitization did not markedly affect phagocytic and bactericidal activities.
(15) 5-HT and NE each depressed significantly the wattle response in 3 and 6 week old chicks.
(16) At 6 weeks of age, chickens were injected with 100 micrograms purified PHA-P. Wattle thickness measurements were taken 4, 24, 48, 72 and 96 h after injection.
(17) Injections were given 12 h prior to, at the time of, and at 12 and 24 h after an intradermal wattle injection with PHA-P.
(18) A rare case of a symptomatic venous anomaly of the parotid gland is described in a 14-year-old female patient who presented with Turkey Wattle sign.
(19) The study was undertaken in spring (n = 263 goats) and autumn (n = 165); the breed, age, polledness, absence or presence of wattles, and reproductive status were recorded for each goat.
(20) A double-wattled cassowary died following a clinical course of severe diarrhea, anorexia, and polydypsia.