单词 | cocklebur |
例句 | The literature of veterinary medicine abounds in similar examples: swine eating sprayed cockleburs with consequent severe illness, lambs eating sprayed thistles, bees poisoned by pasturing on mustard sprayed after it came into bloom. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z With Goldie serving drinks and secret codes like "this hangnail's a cocklebur," the money starts rolling in for both Trent and Abe. 'A Hanging at Cinder Bottom' is an engaging, clever con 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z The cockleburs that clung to the velvet trousers of an enterprising Swiss hiker, George de Mestral, inspired his invention of the loop and hook fastener he named Velcro. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He was struck by the fact that they liked to eat the spiky seed pods of cocklebur plants. Once, America Had Its Own Parrot 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z The Carolina parakeet had a liking for eating cockleburs, a coarse flowering plant that contains a powerful toxin called carboxytractyloside. Humans 'sole culprits' in US parrot extinction 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z With the help of an observant hunter, several friends and an airplane overhead, Pfliger was fortunate enough to find her cocklebur laden keeshond. Hometown volunteer leads North Dakota Governor’s Cup 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z Soon he was observing cockleburs and other barbed seeds that attach themselves to animals and clothing. Natural history: Thoreau's debt to Darwin : Nature : Nature Research 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z A rope to your foot, cockleburs in your hair, and a clothespin on your tongue. The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. 2011-07-02T02:00:10.980Z Carolina parakeets may have been attracted to farms by the cockleburs growing there as weeds. Once, America Had Its Own Parrot 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z In each prickly fruit of a cocklebur there are two seeds, only one of which grows the first year, the other surviving to grow the second year. Seeds of Michigan Weeds Bulletin 260, Michigan State Agricultural College Experiment Station, Division of Botany, March, 1910 The broidery of pink flax and yellow chrysanthemums and white marguerites still follows us; but now the wider stretches of thistles and burdocks and daturas and cockleburs and water-plantains seem to be more important. Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit "Absent treatment may remove warts and bad dispositions, but it sure won't work on cockleburs and Bermuda grass." The Desert Fiddler A furry pony with mane and tail so loaded with cockleburs that he could not shake them, lifted his head and stared. Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana The desmodium, the bidens, the agrimony and the cocklebur, which stick to your clothes even as late as February, are only using you as a Moses to lead their children to their promised land. Some Winter Days in Iowa To the sources previously mentioned may be added pumpkin seeds, poppy seeds, raspberry seeds, tobacco seeds, cockleburs, hazelnuts, walnuts, beechnuts and acorns. Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries "Yer story is what I thought it would be—wild and woolly and full of cockleburs." Ted Strong's Motor Car I note that their gowns are liberally garnished with Spanish needles and cockleburs, and their shoes give evidence of contact with elemental mud. Reveries of a Schoolmaster But from of old there have been morbose people ever ready to criticize the holy and put cockleburs in the back hair of the pure in heart. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 Her face was turned away, and Frank could see at first only a tangled mass of dark brown hair, matted with twigs and leaves and cockleburs, and hanging in wild profusion around her neck. The House Behind the Cedars The immediate tendency of this policy would be to cause the gentleman who owned the vacant lot devoted to cockleburs to put up on it a sign, "For Sale Cheap." Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers |
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