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Example sentences for "certain plants"

  • Aphides which are not yet full grown, and which arrest the exuberant vegetation of certain plants, are in their turn attacked by an insect which is by no means lukewarm in its proceedings.

  • Do not aphides also prevent the too rapid development of certain plants?

  • There are green ones on certain plants, and black ones on others, but whatever be their colour, they are living pearls which form garlands round the stalk.

  • In boys' schools, the circulating matter consists rather of obscene printed books and pictures.

  • When the quantity is minimal the fluid is retained for a time in that passage, owing to the frictional resistance of the urethra, and is perhaps not expelled until the next act of micturition.

  • In the girl, the frequent repetition of this act had given rise to abrasions and local inflammations.

  • Certain plants, belonging to the Malpighiaceae, bear perfect and degraded flowers; in the latter, as A.

  • Heusinger on white animals not poisoned by certain plants, 12.

  • Certain plants excrete a sweet juice, apparently for the sake of eliminating something injurious from their sap: this is effected by glands at the base of the stipules in some Leguminosae, and at the back of the leaf of the common laurel.

  • Entomologists enumerate many parallel cases where insects, appropriated to certain plants, are kept down by other insects, and these again by parasites expressly appointed to prey on them.

  • Few persons need be reminded that the stamens in certain plants grow on different blossoms from the pistils; and unless the summit of the pistil be touched with the fertilizing dust, the fruit does not swell, nor the seed arrive at maturity.

  • A substance found in the pollen of certain plants.

  • A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants.

  • Having flowers appearing before the leaves; -- said of certain plants.

  • A sort of pubescence, or a clothing of dense, curling hairs on the surface of certain plants.

  • Furnished with a leaflike appendage, as the fruit of the elm and the ash, or the stem in certain plants; alate.

  • Published under the title "The Action of Carbonate of Ammonia on the Roots of Certain Plants and on Chlorophyll Bodies," "Linn.

  • I have for a couple of months been observing the effects of carbonate of ammonia on chlorophyll and on the roots of certain plants (692/1.

  • The Action of Carbonate of Ammonia on the Roots of Certain plants.

  • Gärtner has designated by this term a peculiar condition of the anthers in certain plants, in which they are shrivelled, or become brown and tough, and contain no good pollen.

  • It appears[311] that certain flowers on certain plants of Lilium candidum can be fertilised more easily by pollen from a distinct individual than by their own.

  • One of the characteristics by which roots are distinguished from stems in a general way consists in the absence of buds; but, as is well known, they may be formed on the roots under certain circumstances, and in certain plants, e.

  • It is difficult to draw any accurate inference from this enumeration, but attention may be called to the frequency of this occurrence in certain plants, such as the Sempervivum, the wallflower, the poppy, and the heath.

  • The questions will constantly arise, does such and such a form represent the ancestral condition of certain plants?

  • A variety of sugar, found in certain plants.

  • The dark red dried juice of certain plants, used variously in tanning, in dyeing, and as an astringent in medicine.

  • Prepared leaves or bark of certain plants; -- used by the Indians of the Northwest for smoking, either mixed with tobacco or as a substitute for it.

  • Certain plants yield so little oil by the ordinary processes, notwithstanding every care, that nothing but a distilled water is obtained.

  • With cattle susceptibility to the attacks of flies is correlated with colour, as is the liability to be poisoned by certain plants; so that even colour would be thus subjected to the action of natural selection.

  • Still more striking is the fact that peculiar Australian forms are represented by certain plants growing on the summits of the mountains of Borneo.

  • A kind of juice or sap, usually white in color, found in certain plants; latex.

  • A gummy or gelatinous substance produced in certain plants by the action of water on the cell wall, as in the seeds of quinces, of flax, etc.

  • Its origin in cattle has been variously ascribed to the presence of certain plants in their food, and to polluted drinking water.

  • A variety of lignin or cellulose found in the medulla, or pith, of certain plants.

  • Defn: A variety of sugar, found in certain plants.

  • It has been attributed to the effluvium from hay, and to the pollen of certain plants.

  • A single seed of certain plants, as wheat, rye, barley, and maize; a grain.

  • The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, as of the thistle.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    born near; certain amount; certain animals; certain cases; certain circumstances; certain degree; certain groups; certain instances; certain kinds; certain length; certain measure; certain minimum; certain parts; certain persons; certain place; certain places; certain respects; certain spot; certain thing; certain village; certain words; certainly not; just peace; nearly white; seemed likely; small pinch