Even still, there are other perils awaiting the defenseless gall wasps inside their papery galls. |
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I peel a chunk of weathered paint off, and hold the thin papery flake in my palm. |
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Limes nearly always yield more juice than lemons because although they are smaller, they have thinner skins and finer papery segments within. |
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Wrapped in fleecelike mantles of bacteria, the worms live in papery tubes, which they burrow into the sides of deep-sea geysers. |
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Callistemons and melaleucas are often tricky to tell apart as they are both evergreen trees or shrubs with papery trunks. |
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Their counterparts are the more poetically named lacecaps, whose papery bracts circle a mauve to pink head of minuscule flowers. |
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What makes these native arums so attractive are the thick spikes of fruits that follow the large white papery inflorescences. |
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When buying garlic, look for firm heads with papery skins, and avoid any with green sprouts. |
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Make sure you remove the papery membrane that you'll find between the two halves. |
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It is a beautiful tree, with gracious branches and a brilliant white papery peeling bark. |
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No, you can't just grind the entire pod, but an initial pounding in a mortar will loosen the seeds from the papery husk. |
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The fruit, as usual with physalis fruits, is enclosed in a papery thin calyx or husk, which is cream in colour. |
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My energy levels appear to be rising and my skin is losing its papery pallor and feels softer. |
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Once cool enough to handle, squeeze garlic out of tis papery skin and mash cloves with a fork until smooth. |
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As the disease developed affected areas turned tan and papery and leaf margins sometimes became tattered. |
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These are usually medium to large onions with a papery, white outer skin and white flesh. |
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Washed coffee' is a coffee that has been quickly washed following manual removal of the pulp, leaving a papery coating. |
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The bark was pounded, softened and stretched over a wooden anvil until it was thin and papery, yet still strong. |
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Chinese garlic, with its white, papery skin and strong flavour is one of the most common varieties. |
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The word wasp almost immediately conjures up an image of hornets swarming from papery football-shaped nests, or the fierce stings of the common paper wasp. |
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Her main objection was our liberal use of garlic, that pungent bulb with its pretty, papery sheath, encasing ivory-coloured segments, shaped like half-moons. |
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Some, such as tulips, have a brown papery coating called a tunic. |
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In the mouth the wine has a soft, slightly coarse mousse, with a papery quality, and flavors of quince paste, baked apples, and a yeastiness that surfaces in the finish. |
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The leading edge of the ice freezes to the stem's papery bark, and as the ice grows it is lifted upward by the attached bark, forming delicately curved, lacy ribbons. |
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With their papery bark, aromatic leaves, red sap, and rapidly tapering trunks, elephant-trees are as absurd, beautiful, and intriguing as their namesakes. |
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The little bird pulled up a pod and peeled back the papery covering. |
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The firm also used coatings to add a papery touch to poplin and canvas. |
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Its leafy, elongated stems are 8-12 mm in diameter, initially green and covered by the amplexicaul, striated leaf bases which become dry, papery and grey with age. |
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Garlic is ready to harvest when the leaves turn papery and fade. |
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But we will have to come back to dosa, injera or those papery baobing used to wrap peking duck. |
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Each year I have plucked the papery heads, their cargo of flaked almond-like seeds shaking inside, to further distribute them. |
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The skin should be papery, almost brittle, and the shape smooth, round or oval. |
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The other type, the scaly bulb, as seen in true lilies, has naked storage leaves, unprotected by any papery covering, that make the bulb appear to consist of a series of angular scales. |
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It can be roasted whole in its papery covering. |
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The Chinese lantern plant, Physalis alkekengi, produces the most amazingly bright orange papery packaging to cover the orange fruit within. |
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You get a fetching pair of black papery boxer shorts to wear so your designer grundies don't get showered in dead skin. |
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When the papery bracts fade, we deadhead our plants, something we do not do with other astrantias. |
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Remove as much of the brown papery husk as possible, using your fingers. |
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Well it will be a papery object with pages inside. |
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All of my face is tight and papery skin is falling off. |
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These are usually arranged in two whorls, each containing three thin, papery tepals. |
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Typically, a garlic bulb, is formed of several separate cloves, each wrapped in its own papery skin, and the whole head is further enclosed in a papery skin. |
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The petals will have faded a bit and feel papery to the touch. |
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The most poetic of these witty, nature-themed jewels was a pair of earrings and a brooch inspired by a physalis, the cherry-sized, yellow-orange fruit that Mother Earth has encased in a papery, tan lantern. |
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With social networking sites and photo galleries as well as their traditional papery counterparts and computer photo folders, it's never been so easy to collect and show off photographic masterpieces and cherished memories. |
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The bark of all birches is characteristically marked with long, horizontal lenticels, and often separates into thin, papery plates, especially upon the paper birch. |
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The shimmering gold efflorescence of the golden rain tree, whose large clusters of bright yellow flowers turn to rosy, papery seedpods, is the first to herald autumn. |
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The bract at the base is dry and papery, often lacerate near its apex. |
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