Sentences with phrase «which weedy»

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The old Romans used the letter v for the sound we denote by a w: so that Caesar's boast, Veni, vidi, vici, might still at that time have been pronounced wainy, weedy, weeky, which does not actually impress the ear with power; and that may explain why he had to cross the Rubicon.

There's a large, weedy, overgrown, rooty spot in which we think our garden plot would best be come spring, and I had hoped that these two pigs might do the job for us this winter of cleaning it up and turning it all over, fertilizing it all the while.

ALBANY — Taking a scythe to one of the weedier corners of the state's administrative garden, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed two bills repealing the statutory authorization for 28 local public authorities and 95 urban renewal and industrial development agencies that are «either defunct, were never ultimately established by local law, or are no longer needed to carry out the public function for which they were formed,» according to the governor's release.

«A Wild Weedy Scourge,» page 24 «Resource Heterogeneity, Soil Fertility and Species Diversity: Effects of Clonal Species on Plant Communities,» by J. Alexander Eilts and colleagues in May issue of The American Naturalist describes how plants like cogon grass, which spread through expansive underground networks, reduce biodiversity even in soils that are thought to boost it.

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.

With the help of modern genetic technology and the resources of the International Rice GeneBank, which contains more than 112,000 different types of rice, evolutionary biologist Kenneth Olsen, PhD, associate professor of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been able to look back in time and ask whether the same mutations underlay the emergence of the same traits in both cultivated and weedy rice.

Camelina grower Sustainable Oils — which provided the camelina oil to make the 1,000 gallons of jet fuel needed for the KLM flight — plans to cover more than 20,000 hectares in Montana with the weedy relative of canola, enough to deliver some 9.5 million liters of raw oil.

S. cordicitum and the varieties that are newly elevated to species belong to section Androceras, which is a group of weedy Solanum plants native to the central and southwestern U.S. and Mexico.

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.

The front - mounted electric motor drives the front wheels only, and although its 109bhp sounds a bit weedy, a meaty torque figure of 285Nm — which is match for many a «hot» hatch — means the Soul EV is pretty smart away from the traffic lights.

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.

Soon I heard the sound again but now it seemed to be from across the street on a weedy hill which was home to squabbling hens and roosters.

Greg Henry of the University of British Columbia reports that in the area of Nunavut he's studied, the tundra has warmed about 1 °C each decade since the 1970s — something which he attributes to the growth of more weedy plants in the region.

«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.