Breeding the life out of a watermelon is not my idea of a desirable trait.
This year, for once, basic competency might end up being seen as a desirable trait.
Imagine three groups of people: those with low, medium, and high amounts of a desirable trait, like wealth.
Neither physical demonstrativeness nor sensitivity to art was considered a desirable trait by the rest of his family.
There are lovely scallion pancakes to start, only greasy insofar as this is a desirable trait in a scallion pancake.
Once the plants have flowered, at nine months, workers manually dust them with the pollen of another banana plant that has a desirable trait, such as disease resistance.
Ultimately, the only truly worrying thing about admiring narcissists is that it reflects the collective acceptance of narcissism as a desirable trait and value.
She knew what a woman could and could not do and remain a "lady" (a desirable trait to many at the time) because she was the genuine article.
Bedell's 2005 blanc de blancs, made from chardonnay grapes farmed at Corey Creek, its sister estate, displays a desirable trait the French call nervosité.
Another breeding technique is to bombard plants with radiation or expose them to chemicals to induce hundreds of random mutations in hopes of finding one that will confer a desirable trait.
Seedlessness is a desirable trait in citrus and has been an important breeding objective.
