What's the difference between whort and whortleberry?

Whort


Definition:

  • (n.) The whortleberry, or bilberry. See Whortleberry (a).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Four boys with facial-digital-genital or Aarskog syndrome were whort with triangular faces, characteristic deformities of the hands and feet, and anomalies of the external genitalia.
  • (2) (iv) Many of the late RNA leader segments produced after infection with the mutants appear to be multiply spliced, i.e., instead of the major 200- to 205-nucleotide-long leader segment present in wild-type 16S mRNA, the RNAs produced by several of the deletion mutants have leaders with whort discontiguous segments.

Whortleberry


Definition:

  • (n.) The fruit of several shrubby plants of the genus Gaylussacia; also, any one of these plants. See Huckleberry.
  • (n.) In England, the fruit of Vaccinium Myrtillus; also, the plant itself. See Bilberry, 1.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The effect of iron(II), tin(II), aluminium(III), and chromium(III) on the properties of red whortleberry, blackcurrant, and red beet juices was followed during storage for 10 months at 5 degrees C. The colour and pH changes were studied, and the precipitates formed were weighed and their metal contents assayed.
  • (2) Precipitation is enhanced in red whortleberry juice only by tin, and in blackcurrant juice by tin and iron.
  • (3) Liquid chromatographic methodology for determination of vitamin C and organic acids in different fruits (whortleberry, blackberry, red currant, black currant, raspberry, babaco, feijoa, kiwano, passion fruit, red and yellow tamarillos, medlar, and persimmon) cultivated in Galicia, Spain are developed.

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