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The lac insect sucks the sap from small branches of the Kusumi tree, then secretes through its pores the lac resin.
The characteristic symptom of Sudden Oak Death is sap bleeding from discolored bark.
This hard resinous coating originates from the plant sap metabolized by the lac insect.
The natural coloration of lac residue is greatly influenced by the sap consumed by the lac insect and the season of the harvest.
Lack of open space to relieve hard-packed pavement and gap-toothed Main Streets drained by malls and sprawl sap the life from downtown.
It is remarkably effective at extracting whatever nutrients the sap might contain.
The fossilized sap from sweetgum trees, containing ancient and extinct insects, is prized as amber.
The newer growth on some of the shrubs is looking decidedly green as the sap begins to stir and there are leaf buds all over.
Mastiha starts as a semi-transparent sap from lentisk trees found only in certain areas of the Greek island of Chios.
Urushiol, commonly the chief allergen, is found in the oleoresinous sap located in the leaves, stems and roots of these plants.
A heartwood is the wood from the center of the tree, the area around the center carries the sap in the tree and is called sap wood.
The mucilage sap of narcissi can adversely affect other flowers by clogging their water-uptake channels.
The ancient Greeks believed that the sap of hawkweeds was responsible for the keen eyesight of hawks.
Hummingbirds favored the maguey cactus, and people who extracted the plant's sap were also known as hummingbirds.
Travellers, short on water rations, have died drinking the milky sap of its poisonous foliage.
The sucrose is transferred in the plant sap from the leaf to the grape berry.
Some theorists were attracted to notions of climatic determinism, believing that heat and humidity would sap Australians' intellectual powers.
Unmixed, sap green is a natural appearing yellow green, and it does not have to be adjusted by much to create pleasing landscape passages.
It catches insects in flight and uses sapsucker holes to feed on sap and insects attracted to the sap.
Osmotic potentials of xylem sap and the external medium were estimated by freezing point depression osmometry.
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Examples from Classical Literature
All this bubbling of sap and slipping of sheaths and bursting of calyxes was carried to her on mingled currents of fragrance.
But commonly, graft at that time of the Winter, when sap beginneth to arise.
Here we have a mass of protoplasm with a nucleus and cavities filled with cell sap, but no cell wall.
Then he explained to the bewildered Will that the cream was the sap of the cow tree.
Such is the saki or rice wine of the Japanese, the tuba or sap of the coconut palm of the Filipinos and the pulqu of the Mexicans.
Tuba is the fermented sap of the coconut palm, obtained by incisions made at the top of the tree.
Come into my cave and see all the lollypops I've made from the sap of the lollypop tree.
This fluid, which in most cells is colorless, is called the cell sap, and is composed mainly of water.
It then passes into the cells by osmosis, and there becomes part of the cell sap.
Methinks, Alleyne, it is this learning which you have taught her that has taken all the life and sap from her.
I think he was glad when we set out for my own village in the Moon of the sap Running.
Each century had renewed the city's glory as with the sap of immortal youth.
When coloured with saffron, or sap green, it closely resembles the Irish usquebaugh.
Tchekoff is a true product of Russian literature, an autochthon plant, nourished by his natal sap.
The sap contains a substance that gives a blue dye when the inner bark is macerated in water.
The foreign is uniformly adulterated with chalk or starch, and coloured with sap green.
The outermost sprays began to drop from increasing weight of sap and leaf bud.
I like to share in the dumb delights of birds and animals, to feel my life drawing its sap from roots deep in the soil of Nature.
The young shoots are cut and their pith contents removed to make pipes for drawing maple sap from the trees in sugaring time.
This changes the quality of the pekoe, for these leaves being scarcely formed, can have very little sap or flavour.
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