Definition & Betydelse | Engelska ordet LEAVES'

Definition av LEAVES'

1. böjningsform av leaf

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• Whitton dismissed Pearson's design as a 'white badge of surrender, waving three dying maple leaves' which might as well be 'three white feathers on a red background,' a symbol of cowardice.
• The plant attracts its insect prey with secretions from extrafloral nectaries on the lip of the pitcher leaves, as well as a combination of the leaves' color and scent.
• The name Phlomis derives from a Greek word for "flame", and may refer to the leaves' use in ancient times as lamp wicks.
• Following 'The House of Blue leaves' at the Lilian Baylis Theatre with the late Denis Quilley and 'Having a Ball' by Alan Bleasdale at the Comedy Theatre, she then appeared in The Killing of Sister George at the Arts Theatres and Calendar Girls with Kelly Brook at the Wyndham's Theatre.
• The specific epithet is derived from the Greek stenos (narrow) and phyllon (leaf), meaning 'with narrow leaves'.
• They are characterized by round-section root with thick velamen, four-angled fleshy pseudobulbs of one internode, often basally protected by dried sheaths and with only one apical leaf (except for Bifrenaria steyermarkii, which occasionally has two), plicate (fan-folded) enervated leathery leaves, yet malleable and not exceedingly thick, with a pseudo-petiole of basal round section, and a basal inflorescences bearing up to ten flowers, which seldom surpass the leaves' length.
• The chisel-toothed kangaroo rat also mitigates the saltiness of the halophyte it eats (the shadscale) by using its broad, sharp lower incisors to scrape off the leaves' salty outerlayer to reach the less-salty center.
• Its inventor, chemist Angelo Mariani, steeped coca leaves in Bordeaux wine in order to produce a "tonic" that mellowed the leaves' bitter flavor.
• Eventually Faden noticed that certain specimens had needle-like, acicular hairs along the midvein on the leaves' upper surfaces, while others had mainly or only hook-hairs.
• Since Kalari Panicker were masters to Savarna or upper castes, they were allowed to use the palm leaves' umbrellas.
• Meconopsis is derived from the Greek for 'poppy-like' (μήκον mēkon, ‘poppy’; ὄψις ópsis, ‘aspect’), while lancifolia is from the Latin for 'with sharply pointed leaves' (lancea ‘poppy’; folia ‘leaves’).
• The plant is used by Brazilians, to whom it is known as murici, to treat gastric injuries, due to the leaves' high content of flavonoids, such as rutin, isoquercitrin, kaempferol 3-O-rutinoside, and querceti, known for their antioxidant properties.

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