Sentences with phrase «weedy as»

Most of these are second order effects unrelated to plant hormone chemistry; while plants become brittler, less well - nourished and more nitrogen - depleting, less capable of maintaining thermal homeostasis, faster aging and weedier as CO2 plant hormone changes affect them, they generally just shift their mix in the wild and drop their productivity as soil microbes change toward more adverse colonies, but aren't yet wholesale dying out for the most part.

Not exact matches

A year into the project, the weedy field has a compost heap full of organic waste from the kitchen; a growing orchard with biblical fruit trees including a fig and an apple; a Havdalah circle where visitors and residents of the farm gather weekly for a religious ceremony marking the end of Shabbat; and a shmitta area — a part of the land that is allowed to lie fallow for one year out of every seven, as commanded in the Torah.

If the Weed Walcott actually imagines he has even a prayer of making the England squad, then he is as stupid as he is cowardly, weedy,, frail and lazy.

He would rather play weedy nine stone dripping wet midfielders and cumbersome, immobile, couldn't care less so called «players» as DCM.

«We used weedy rice as a model plant.

For both biomes, the weedy areas also had higher levels of nutrients such as nitrogen and carbon, which Stohlgren believes is part of the good conditions that favors the invading weeds» success.

Invasive species or successful colonists or weedy generalists — think kudzu and rats — may be spreading into new places, keeping the local species tally up, even as the planet's overall biodiversity is degraded.

Weedy infestations can drop the yield by as much as 80 percent, Olsen says.

This means the weedy forms can draw on both ancestral genes and crop genes as they respond to the selection pressures of modern agriculture.

The weedy forms shatter, but they've re-evolved this ability by some other, as yet unknown, pathway, he says.

Then, just as your girl is laying her eggs in the snug little nursery you've prepared, some weedy little cheat slips in ahead of you and fertilises the lot.

The mass deployment of scuba rice is the culmination of more than a decade of research for Mackill, who long ago identified a gene in rice's DNA, known as Sub1A, that seemed to strongly influence how a weedy but flood - resistant rice variety in India — rejected because it had a low yield and poor taste — could survive so much longer than normal varieties.

Ok so we don't all have biceps as big as Brussels but if you're worried about looking weedy with your shirt sleeves rolled up don't be.

The titular character, voiced with a nod to great movie villains of the 30s and 40s by Will Ferrell, is a weedy, blue - skinned humanoid with pronunciation issues from another planet sent to Earth as a baby with only a fish, Minion (David Cross), and a binky for company.

The constant droning of sad classical music over 70 % of the film is highly manipulative.The lead actress is toiling hard in the fields, yet at all times wears lipstick, foundation, rough and mascara.Even some of the males wear lipstick throughout.Everybody is drop dead gorgeous, no mud or gore in sight.The whole film is suffused with too much romantic zeal and sentiment.The two lead actors are excellent, but as usual Tom Sturridge is poor.He fails to convince he could ever be the dashing colonial soldier with his thin, weedy style of acting.One star

As you should all know by now, the film sees Chris Evans play weedy but patriotic Steve Rogers circa World War II, an army no - hoper transformed into a super-soldier by Erskine's revolutionary super-soldier serum.

Barbara Madeloni, president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association — which opposes PARCC, as does the American Federation of Teachers — said that the hours spent talking about testing «in all kinds of weedy, intricate detail» have come at the cost of discussions on creativity, imagination and citizenship.

There's usually a nasty bark of a weedy motor accompanied by a lurch as the two power sources unwillingly work together to maintain momentum.

It offers a good blend of everyday usability, sportiness and outright go, as long as you avoid the weedy 4.0 - liter V6.

The trouble is, as we've found before with JLR's petrol V6, away from the F - Type with its shouty drainpipe - spec exhaust pipes, it sounds weedy and at times harsh.

Speaking of which, while it's fine overall for video, the speakers are a bit weedy — you don't get a nice stereo set, as on the more expensive iPads and even the cheap Kindle Fire HD 8.

Poor Elsie wasn't much to look at apparently, being described as «small, light, and weedy.»

There was very little interest in a breed that had degenerated into a weedy, shallow, common - headed, unsound dog as compared to the fabulous Standard Bullies of the day.

A weedy specimen is to be penalized as severely as a coarse one.

Beneath the waves curious animals such as Australian weedy sea dragons, garibaldi damselfish and Japanese spider crabs hang among rocky ledges and kelp forests.

Wonderpus octopuses have been seen here, as has the very rare weedy scorpionfish (Rhinopias).

The relentless march of technology means many of the systems we were so overawed by in the»90s now look pathetically weedy by modern standards, yet the Neo Geo — with its silky - smooth animation, CD - quality audio and screen - filling, hand - drawn sprites — has managed to retain its ability to dazzle — and that timeless quality is likely to endure as the decades roll by and the cost of ownership continues to rise.

As Starley Thompson, a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., put it, the challenge of recognizing global warming amid the ups and downs of weather is like trying to discern cornstalks rising in a weedy field.

(Just as a sidenote, Bruno, who has studied the «turf war» between coral and seaweed, has told me that research shows weedy reefs can be as biologically diverse as coral reefs.)

«Some of the «weedy» species have been touted as great success stories, in which native butterflies had successfully adapted to the changed conditions created by European colonization of California.

The one weedy speaker offers little oomph, and its weird placement on the rear right of the device (as you're watching the screen) meant that I found myself cupping my hand around the back in order to funnel the sound around to the front.

If you find yourself looking longingly at green - fingered friends who can make even the weediest of cuttings bloom, or watched, mystified as plants in your care wilt on the windowsill within days, we're here to help.