Tobira, a native of China, easily known by its thick leathery leaves, the midribs of which are strongly marked, and whitish.
The leaves are large, with the midribs and veins red; and the branches and pedicels are also of a dark reddish purple.
The leaflet of the sago folded and tied side by side on the smaller midribs form the "atap" or thatch in universal use, while the product of the trunk is the staple food of some= hundred thousands of men.
The midribs of the immense leaves form one of the most useful articles in these lands, supplying the place of bamboo, to which for many purposes they are superior.
We now come to a small section of plants which climb by means of the produced midribs or tips of their leaves.
In Mutisia clematis, the tendril, in shape and colour, closely resembles the petiole of one of the ordinary leaves, together with the midribs of the leaflets, but vestiges of the laminae are still occasionally retained.
The flowers, which open in April and May, are yellow, and the midribs of the petals and sepals are a reddish purple on the outside.
Leaves long and narrow; the veins and midribs green; the head is greenish, and generally covered by the leaves.
The midribsand nerves of the leaves are large, but brittle, and of tender texture.
The midribs and stalks, which are separated from the lamina of the leaf, are stewed and eaten like Asparagus, under the name of "Chard.
When the stems and midribs of the leaves are thoroughly blanched, they are ready for use.
As a class, they are remarkable for hardiness and vigor; but the midribs and nerves of the leaves are comparatively coarse and hard, and most of the kinds will be found inferior to the Cabbage lettuces in crispness and flavor.
Nagkúlud siya sa lukay, He is removing the midribs of the palm fronds.
The midribs of the leaves, powerful but resilient, held aloft in generous arches the broad planes of translucent green substance.
The stout midribs are sometimes rosy, but the banners they hold well above your upturned face are as the crest of a wave in the moment of collapse, the day showing through its fluid glass.
Frond pale green, delicate and membranaceous, hairy beneath along the midribs and veins.
The distance from the edges to the midribs was carefully measured.
Large bits of albumen were laid in a row on the midribs of two leaves, but produced in the course of 24 hrs.
In medium-sized specimens, the midribsproject inwards to a distance exceeding half the breadth of a compartment.
The basal membrane (in the centre of which I distinctly saw the antennae of the pupa) has six deep bays or excisions, corresponding with the midribs (see Pl.
The midribs are not so prominent as in the following species, and hence the basal membrane is less convex.
From the pisang (musa) a kind of sewing-thread is procured by stripping filaments from the midribs of the leaves, as well as from the stem.
A pinna was cemented with shellac on the summit of a little stick driven firmly into the ground, immediately beneath a pair of leaflets, to the midribs of both of which excessively fine glass filaments were attached.
The leaflets, however, sometimes bend so much back that their midribs become parallel to and lie on the petiole.
With respect to the leaflets, they move at night towards the apex of the petiole until their midribs stand nearly parallel to it; and they then lie neatly imbricated one over the other.
They thus become imbricated with theirmidribs parallel to the petiole.
With Haematoxylon Campechianum (Tribe 13) the leaflets move forwards at night, so that their midribs stand parallel to the petiole, and their now vertical lower surfaces are turned outwards (Fig.
At the same time they bend back towards the base of the petiole, until their midribs form with it angles of from 40o to 50o in a vertical plane, as here figured (Fig.
At the same time they bend downwards in a plane at right angles to that of their former position, until their midribs form an angle of about 45o with the upper part of the petiole.
A young cotyledon or leaf after bursting free is brought down into its proper position, as already remarked, by epinasty, which, according to De Vries, long continues to act on the midribs and petioles.
Along the sides of the midribs and midveins are very long and narrow areoles, and outside of these are obliquely-placed oblong areoles in several irregular rows.
The midribs are prominent, and the veins conspicuous; the latter being copiously reticulated into areoles which enclose no free veinlets.
Such specimens are sometimes fairly shaggy with the abundance of scales, which are also found, decreasing in number and in size, on the midribs of the pinnae, and even on the lower surface of the segments.
They take the midribs of a great palm leaf, dry them, split them up, char one end in the fire to make it hard, and with this force out the little partitions that appear at the joints in all reeds, as in bamboo.
The hole is made through the inner reed in the same manner, and these palm midribs and fine sand are worked inside the inner tube until it is quite as smooth as a rifle bore.
He dried the palm midribs in the sun a few days and they split readily into as fine arrows as he needed.
Occasionally the tender stems and midribs are coated with candied sugar as a confection.
The plant is of noble growth, and in rich ground requires abundant room for the spread of its great leaves, the midribs of which are thick, white, tender, and when cooked in the same manner as Sea Kale quite superb in quality.
The top forms a Cabbage of the most delicate flavour and colour, and furnishes the best possible dish of greens in autumn; and the midribs of the largest leaves may be cooked in the manner of Sea Kale, and will be found excellent.
When a fair crop of these midribs has been taken there remains the top Cabbage, which is excellent.
The midribs are removed and the segments are rolled into round bundles, say by fives.
For yellow-orange, unopened leaves having stems about two inches long are selected and the segments are removed from the midribs and rolled into bundles.
The coarsest straw is made by separating the leaflets from the midribs and drying them in the sun.
The midribs are removed while green, and the leaves are rolled into bundles of convenient size, say by fives.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "midribs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
