| 单词 | parasitic plant |
| 例句 | Balanophora shed one third of its genes as it evolved into a streamlined parasitic plant -- an extreme degree of genome shrinkage even among parasites -- according to new research in Nature Plants. This parasitic plant convinces hosts to grow into its own flesh--it's also an extreme example of genome shrinkage 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z The parasitic plant obtains water and nutrients through these connections. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z In an unlikely partnership, Japan's rare Amami rabbit has a mutually beneficial arrangement with a parasitic plant that sucks energy from others' roots. Science News Briefs from around the World: April 2023 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z Birds have been known to eat the fruits, but only sparingly, leaving the scientists to wonder: Could the parasitic plant get around by advertising its seeds to an ancient, endangered and equally weird mammal instead? How Rare Island Bunnies Do a Parasitic Plant’s Bidding 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z "Botanical parasitism of an insect by a parasitic plant." Florida Oaks Host Exciting Parasite-on-Parasite Action 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z Dr. Chen and colleagues -- including University of British Columbia botanist Dr. Sean Graham -- compared the genomes of Balanophora and Sapria, another extreme parasitic plant in the family Rafflesiaceae that has a very different vegetative body. This parasitic plant convinces hosts to grow into its own flesh--it's also an extreme example of genome shrinkage 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z There are about 4,100 species of parasitic plants. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Other types of parasitic plants steal from the underground fungi called mycorrhizae that partner with trees, effectively stealing from both the fungi and the tree that hosts it. Parasitic Plants Have a Surprising Accomplice 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z The root-sucking plants give food in exchange for seed dispersal services — something that has never been documented between a mammal and a parasitic plant. How Rare Island Bunnies Do a Parasitic Plant’s Bidding 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Mistletoe, a poisonous, parasitic plant, was considered special by the Druids, particularly when it was found in oaks, he added. How to keep your fresh-cut Christmas tree, holly and mistletoe looking fresh into 2018 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z They’re neither fungus nor fruit, but a rare type of parasitic plant that lives inside particular trees. Scientists Uncover Strange Secret Life of a Jungle Butterfly 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z Amborella is often encrusted with mosses, lichens and parasitic plants, and the plant seems to be damaged often by falling branches or animals. Gene-Hoarding Shrub Puzzles Biologists 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z This is the story of a flightless Muppet-esque parrot and a parasitic plant that lives underground. The Best Animal Stories of 2013 2013-12-31T18:15:02.455Z Combining the frequency of visits and the amount of fruit consumed, the scientists concluded that the rabbits were the main creatures feeding on the parasitic plants. How Rare Island Bunnies Do a Parasitic Plant’s Bidding 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z It’s that time of the year when we drag trees, branches and even parasitic plants inside our homes. How to keep your fresh-cut Christmas tree, holly and mistletoe looking fresh into 2018 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z These yellow bulbs are the work of a parasitic plant that lives inside this tree in Peru. Scientists Uncover Strange Secret Life of a Jungle Butterfly 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z Over the next week, buyers will travel hundreds of miles to get their hands on mistletoe, the parasitic plant responsible for many a romantic Christmas liaison. Centuries-old romance with mistletoe 2013-12-10T07:51:46Z Rather than making their own food, parasitic plants steal nutrients from their hosts. Looking for Ways to Beat the Weeds 2013-07-15T21:56:47Z Another example of a plant using smell is how a parasitic plant called dodder finds its food. Do Plants Think? 2012-06-05T11:15:22.920Z Green things rotted as they grew; parasitic plants drained the sap from drooping boughs. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z There are hundreds of trees that have the life juices sucked from them by the parasitic plants that twine around them until they give up the ghost.” The Motor Girls in the Mountains or, The Gypsy Girl's Secret 2012-03-07T03:00:15.897Z Three parasitic plants are also abundant, one of them being the familiar dodder. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z Ten years of desolation had hardened the soil, causing all the parasitic plants, all the nettles which the Lord has created to chasten the farmer, to spring up out of its sterile depths. The Cabin [La barraca] 2011-12-01T03:00:23.247Z In parasitic plants also which form no chlorophyll, as Orobanche, Monotropa, &c., the embryo remains without differentiation, consisting merely of a mass of cells until the ripening of the seed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z This marrowy growth is grafted upon the venous tree as a consuming parasitic plant. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography 2011-05-14T02:00:08.440Z Every kind of parasitic plant is looked upon with a suspicious eye in Abyssinia; and those of the vascular orders furnish to the conjuring practitioner his principal remedies. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z Other parasitic plants, like the Beech-drops and Pine-sap, fasten their roots under ground upon the roots of neighboring plants, and rob them of their juices. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools A violent wind rushed through the dismantled windows and shook the parasitic plants upon the crumbling walls. Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. The enzymes of moulds, and other parasitic plants, are usually extracellular in type, being secreted for the purpose of making the material of the host plant available to the parasite. The Chemistry of Plant Life That minute parasitic plant, called "the rust" in wheat, has, like the Hessian fly, the locust, and the aphis, caused famines ere now amongst the "lords of the creation." Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology Below them, tall cottonwoods rose in a straggling, sinuous line, their trunks matted with clinging vines, their branches loaded almost to the breaking point with clusters of parasitic plants. The Vision of Elijah Berl In a tropical forest I have beheld a lofty tree covered thickly all over its trunk and branches with ferns and parasitic plants, but the sight, though beautiful, was suggestive of morbid, unnatural growth. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. In the lower part were the ruins of an ancient monastery, of which the four walls and the tower alone remained, and although of comparatively recent date, the stones were covered with parasitic plants. Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. The trunks were sawn, the branches lopped, and after considerable trouble I at last cleared my piece of water from the bushes and parasitic plants which blocked it up. Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches Biological barriers comprise plant communities, man and animals, and parasitic plants. Introduction to the Science of Sociology There were many trees with parasitic plants growing on them, looking as if ropes were hanging from them. Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California Some of these were covered from top to bottom with parasitic plants, giving them the appearance of tall towers or obelisks. The Giraffe Hunters He is not a parasitic plant deriving its life from some other life; he is rooted deep in the soil of the Eternal. Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion As our little party wound into the forest the road grew gradually steeper, and we walked under the dense shade of huge trees, hung with lianas, orchids, and other parasitic plants. The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson Climbing and parasitic plants, with large shining leaves, run up the trunks, while others, with fantastic stems, hang like ropes and cables from their summits. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure Here, too, appeared numberless parasitic plants, with most beautiful and gorgeous flowers. The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco Trees not only bore their own natural burdens, but were borne down with creepers, vines, and parasitic plants; forming one strange mass of foliage of very many distinct kinds matted together and mingled into one. Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited Some of the trees were so covered with smaller creepers and parasitic plants that the parent stem was entirely concealed. On the Banks of the Amazon A certain parasitic plant that much resembles Yellow moss and grows high up in trees is regarded as a very powerful charm. Negritos of Zambales We must never live on others like a parasitic plant. Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era But I cannot attempt to describe either the trees or the numerous parasitic plants, some worthy to be called trees from their size, which formed this curious grove. The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco Then, too, the numerous parasitic plants, making use of their neighbors as instruments for their own advancement, not inaptly represent a certain human class. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America Other decorations of beads, cotton tassels, and strips of a yellow parasitic plant, are not at all infrequent. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir These parasitic plants glide among the tombs, adorn the ruins, and seem only there to honour the dead. Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy That is to say, no true plantlike plants, for some parasitic plants are practically, to all intents and purposes, animals. Science in Arcady Some of my accredited informants believe it might be turned to profitable account, but being a parasitic plant, it could scarcely be systematically cultivated. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. Soon we rounded a point where the mighty trees, covered with orchids and other parasitic plants, sent their branches down to the very water which in its depths was hiding the dreaded water-snakes. In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians Bird-lime can be made from the middle bark of most parasitic plants, that is to say, those that grow like mistletoe, out of the boughs of other trees. The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries The land surmounted by the ruins of these productions offers, instead of flourishing verdure, only an incumbered space pierced by aged trees, loaded with parasitic plants, lichens, agarics--impure fruits of corruption. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Here parasitic plants had, by means of their tendrils, crept up the shrubbery and stifled the greater part of its flowers. Common Sense, How to Exercise It The most common of the higher parasitic plants damaging timber trees are mistletoes. The Mechanical Properties of Wood Including a Discussion of the Factors Affecting the Mechanical Properties, and Methods of Timber Testing Every trunk was clothed in a smothering mass of vines and ferns and parasitic plants and, from the lower branches, thousands of ropelike creepers swayed back and forth with every breath of wind. Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China The Austrians have revived like those parasitic plants which, having been torn up, reappear after a little while. The Shadow of the Cathedral In short, we have again the analogue of the parasitic plant. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII "Behold, my son," said the Sage, "and learn how to understand the teachings of nature: The parasitic plants represent negligence against the force of which the best of intentions vanish." Common Sense, How to Exercise It There are several varieties of this parasitic plant that are very unlike in appearance. Arizona Sketches A prot�g�, my lord, is a parasitic plant, and you cannot deprive it of its double instincts—to cling and to climb.' Lord Kilgobbin Up the palm-trees there climbed a thousand parasitic plants, covered with blossoms—gorgeous, golden, rich beyond all description. Cord and Creese All parasitic plants, or at least the majority of them, have one character in common which distinguishes them at first sight. Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 Oaks covered with dodder, that is, with parasitic plants, and therefore dead or dying. Palamon and Arcite Here and there a well-preserved wall of some palace rises high above the general wreck, its empty windows fringed with parasitic plants blinking and staring at us like sightless eyes, protesting against troublesome intruders. From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan For it was necessary to go back and disentangle it from the knot of parasitic plants. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon Hard by was a tall palm tree, whose head was heavily weighted with parasitic plants, and I thought the noise was a warning that it was about to fall. The Naturalist on the River Amazons |
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