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Sentence Examples The leaves stand on long footstalks and are glabrous above and downy white beneath. Eighty new trees will be planted, Kousa dogwood, Eastern redbud, downy serviceberry, sourwood, Yoshino cherry, and tulip poplar among them. For example, copper ions are toxic to the zoospores of grapevine downy mildew, thus preventing infection. This historic chick, warm golden brown, with a short bill not yet black but pinkish orange, resembles a large downy pullet with no tail. The chapter on the challenges of bird identification explains how to differentiate similar species, such as the downy and the hairy woodpecker. Cashmere is the fine, downy wool that grows beneath the coarse outer layer of hair, called the guard hair, of the cashmere goat. It earns its name because the underside of its downy leaves can look as though they have been dusted with flour. It was the first time I had ever seen myself with flaws, features, eyelashes, freckles, and most surprising, really soft brown, downy skin. The wild peach is like the commercial version, yellow with red blush, downy skin, and gently grooved. This new fossil suggests that these dinosaurs may not have had scaly, reptile-like skin, but perhaps had a softer, downy coat. Relieved that he had finally left, she went over to the baby and caressed his downy cheek. Unripe fruit have a downy skin, while ripened fruit have the smooth texture of its relatives. I kissed his forehead, and saw that I had dampened some of his soft, downy hair on his head. Their small, flat heads and long necks are downy and their plump bodies are covered with soft feathers. He squeezed Squire tightly, holding him in his muscular arms, letting Squire's cheek rub against his downy neck. Inconspicuous flowers appear in spring followed by soft, downy, grey-green fruits. The boy was identical to her in features save that his hair was downy and shoulder length. Her coat was soft, a curious combination of silky fur and downy feathers near the mane and tail. White hair blows forward on to his temples, flutters like downy feathers over his ears. The re-growth can be any texture and colour, from fine, downy, white hair to your natural look. Show More Sentences Half of the field will be planted with native ash, along with cherry, rowan and hazel trees, sessile oaks and downy birches. She cried as she flopped down onto the soft, over-stuffed, feather mattress and covered herself in the downy pillows. And so it was that the first night passed, and Marigold found herself settling down into the softest downy mattress. As far as vegetation is concerned, there are interesting woods of larches, downy oaks, manna ashes, and beeches. Amy nodded deferentially and kicked off her shoes, settling into the soft, downy bed, leaving the door flung wide open. The discovery of a giant meat-eating dinosaur sporting a downy coat has some scientists reimagining the look of Tyrannosaurus rex. It should be applied shortly after the downy brome emerges and before it tillers in the fall. A long time later found Harp lying down in a downy bed with soft, white sheets. I sat, leaning against a mound of downy pillows and the high, intricately carved headboard of the massive bed on which I reposed. Falling back against the downy pillows, he rolled over to the phone and picked it up. Weeds like pennycress, downy brome, mustards, cheatgrass, and shepherd's purse are common in first cut alfalfa. The feathers are all fluffy and downy, too soft to even make a pillow out of. They will also provide excellent control of black rot, but it is important to remember that they will not control downy mildew. Common onion diseases include damping off, botrytis leaf blight, downy mildew, and bacterial blight. We cannot recall ever having such large families of cardinals, downy and hairy woodpeckers, English sparrows, blue jays, titmice and chickadees. Since the fur is only semi-long and lacks the downy undercoat, the coat doesn't tangle and even show cats require little grooming. It controls pennycress, shepherdspurse, tansy mustard, jointed goatgrass and downy brome. Eastern growers must also contend with humidity-loving black rot, botrytis, downy mildew, and phomopsis. He walked upstairs and set his alarm to wake him before the sun then laid on his downy soft, white bed. The sun was shining brightly, illuminating the soft, downy clouds that floated aimlessly about in the clear blue skies. Show More Sentences Their bodies were covered with downy feathers, which provided insulation in the cooler environment of the trees. Concerns about pesticide use have led breeders to develop broccoli varieties with natural resistance to downy mildew. Spring-blooming wildflowers are the broad-leaved spiderwort, downy yellow violet, and hairy phlox. I said I didn't think it would be a big deal, everyone has that fine downy, near-invisible hair. Both powdery mildew and downy mildew often infect squash plants as autumn nights grow cooler and dew keeps the foliage moist through the night. Snow fell steadily from the smooth gray sky, coating the ground in downy white. Speaking of hair, Ollie is still losing his first dark locks and some lovely downy light brown hair is taking its place. You can also try hare's tail grass with its dense woolly heads and downy haired leaves. I used to have soft, downy hair on my legs when I was 13, but my peer group persuaded me to shave it off. The bee on the Cerastium looks like he has got onto a queen sized bed and is snuggling up into a white downy quilt. The chicks had been downy and charming, and cheeped sweetly with their permanently open mouths. The leaves of the Paper Mulberry are distinctive in that they have a very rough, sandpaper-like upper surface and a soft, downy under surface. The cobweb houseleek Sempervivum arachnoideum has a fine covering of downy white hairs and is a good contrast to the darker forms. In the spring add atrazine to glyphosate or paraquat to control late emerging downy brome. It controls pennycress, shepherd's purse, tansy mustard, jointed goatgrass and downy brome. There is a downy woodpecker on one of the birdfeeders and whisky jacks darting across the frosty boughs. If the hair is fairly fine and downy, either on the upper lip or the cheeks, then bleaching is by far the best solution. The leaves are covered with a white, downy coating that, before the introduction of cotton to Britain, was used to make candle wicks. In fall you'll see Northern flickers, herons, kingfishers, downy woodpeckers, and lots of ducks. All that I could see was that sandy blonde downy fluff, the baby fat, and those crystal blue eyes that would probably change. Show More Sentences They might call it chick-lit, but the Scribbler reckons that some talons are emerging from underneath that cutesy downy fluff. His feathers are downy and fluffy, juvenile like a fledgling bird. I stretch out my finger and a brazen parakeet sidles onto it, inclining its head so I can gently stroke its chalk blue ruff, so downy tender that it feels almost moist. Long, spindly, red legs ending in long toed, taloned feet stretch up from the ground, meeting the bird's downy underplumage a couple feet above the sand. I scooched into my bedroom and buried myself in my downy comforter. By age 10, most were shaving downy body hair to gain extra speed and realizing the reward for a year of hard work was improvement measured in tenths of a second. The blankets on her bed were made out of downy, white sheepskin, but the eleven-year-old girl still felt how the covers did not feel like the silky, rich fabric from her home. The downy chicks are similar in markings to those of the shelduck. A site that provides for maximum air drainage which promotes faster drying of foliage can substantially reduce the risk of black rot and downy mildew. Each impossibly soft, downy robe feels like a little chunk of heaven that's so incredibly snuggly that being swaddled in one is like returning to the womb. Does this not suggest that early feathers must have had pennaceous vanes at least distally, if the downy bases, or down feathers, were to be effective for insulation? For grassy weeds, especially winter annual grasses like downy brome, cheatgrass, and volunteer wheat, use Poast Plus or Select herbicides before grasses are 4 inches tall. The Gunflint Trail bird feeders are still enjoying heavy use, being frequented most often by Canada jays, hairy and downy woodpeckers, and black-capped and boreal chickadees. Along with the photo, my wife sent a sheet of paper and taped to it, a snippet of dark downy hair and a tiny handprint and a footprint no bigger than the end of my thumb. Like downy blue star, this one is native to infertile sandy soils. Snuggle under a downy duvet, relax by the woodstove with a bottomless cookie jar by your side, or soak in the private hot tub on your cabin's secluded porch. With their whimsical ancient names such as corncockle, mousetail, fluellen, fumitory, downy hemp-nettle and lamb's succory, they have music as well as colour. The most common viticultural problems are downy mildew, powdery mildew, botrytis bunch rot, soil erosion, and occasional spring frost in the east of the country. So it's very good news that scientists have found genetic markers that easily identify broccoli varieties with natural resistance to downy mildew. With that Nat suddenly produced from inside his jacket a little downy bird, who blinked and ruffled his feathers, looking very plump and sleepy and scared. Show More Sentences With their long, silky hair and downy undercoat, matting is common. Mold is the common term used to describe a downy or furry growth on the surface or organic matter, caused by fungi, especially in the presence of dampness and decay. The more common ones are powdery mildew, blackspot, downy mildew and rust. I should be in a padded room with a soft downy bed and a botanical garden. Beds have mega downy pillows and soft cotton sheets changed daily. He was lying on his back, in the midst of the soft downy blanket. She would be nestled in the downy pillow she loved so dearly. The new disease, downy mildew of aquilegias, is very virulent and with no chemical control it is killing plants. Species of tree and shrub include ash, downy birch, hazel, hawthorn, yew and rowan. Rarer species to be found in the grikes include baneberry and downy currant. Researchers tested the most common diseases including potato blight, clubroot, rust, powdery and downy mildew. The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs, from oblong to lanceolate, often downy, and with a serrated margin. Owls can struggle to keep warm, because of their lack of waterproofing, so large numbers of downy feathers help them to retain body heat. Small hands flailed, the downy head turned from one side to another and suddenly the rosepetal mouth opened and Emily let out a wail. The chick's downy coat of feathers formed almost immediately to keep it warm. Calves are born with only a thin layer of blubber, but some species compensate for this with a covering of fine, downy hair known as lanugo. The winter coat consists of long, coarse bristles underlaid with short brown downy fur. On the underside of the young fronds is the downy brown pulu or indumentum. Sand burr, downy brome grass, squirrel-tail grass, poverty grass, mesquite, cocklebur and clover are some of the offending plants. Pick yellowing leaves off Brussels sprouts and other brassicas promptly, to prevent spread of grey mould and brassica downy mildew. Show More Sentences The right hon. Gentleman has much more claim to the adjective downy than I have, but he really cannot catch me with that one. Pick yellowing leaves offBrussels sprouts and other brassicas promptly, to prevent spread of grey mould and brassica downy mildew. Since the fur can only be removed from dead animals, and each animal yields very little of the downy fur, several antelope must be killed to make a single shawl. Examples from Classical Literature Several species of grevillea, particularly a remarkable kind with leaves like those of a European holly, but downy. The calyxes and buds are downy and the flowers bright pink or rose-purple, delicately veined. But these solicitudes were mere downy trifles floating on the surface of her profound absorption in Louis. Differs from N. hirtipes in larger size, fibrillose stem, downy, not strigose at base. The cup is infundibuliform, the outside as well as the stem whitish, and downy, the bowl or disk is reddish-orange. The rectrices were partly ensheathed and the feather count extensively downy. The green leaves of the tormentil are soft and fine, with a few downy hairs on the front. The leaves are cordate, and bluntly three or five lobed, a little downy beneath, but smooth above. The veil is absent, or, if present, it is downy and adherent to the margin of the cap. This is not the water spider that looks like a mosquito, but the other one, with black downy hair and red stripes on her body. The two baffed under Mowgli's nose so close that a pinch of downy white feathers brushed away. Spraying with Bordeaux mixture as indicated for black-rot will keep downy mildew in check. Well, downy boy, I have never been in the sun, so I really cannot tell you. Fluffy, tell downy the little story I told you the other day, about the sunbeam. Her eyes were smiling expectantly, her downy lip rose and remained lifted in childlike happiness. Then, remembering, he sprang from the downy bed to his feet. I return to my study and in about fifteen minutes downy is back at work. His smooth, rosy face had still the downy bloom of adolescence. Her face was round and rosy, with a healthful downy softness, suggestive of a ripe peach. The hens were clucking to their downy chicks just out of the egg. Show More Sentences I must stay in the house till dinner, and I could read to downy. The heap of money made a deep impression in the softy downy bed. Like the beaver, it is furnished with an undercoat of soft downy fur. Natal plumages and downy pteryloses of passerine birds of North America. Atrotomentosus is from ater, black, and tomentum, woolly or downy. They had made a beautiful nest by pulling two big leaves together and stitching them up the edges with fibers, and had filled the hollow with cotton and downy fluff. Find more words! 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