Sentence examples for as a single leaf from inspiring English sources
Even the commonly cultivated tropical shrub Nerium (oleander) is poisonous and has caused deaths in infants who ingested as little as a single leaf.
(b) Time course images of stem cell formation as a single leaf cell isolated by laser ablation converts into a chloronema apical stem cell.
Collectively, these studies suggest that research attempting to identify the more comprehensive implications of climate change requires experiments that can explicitly capture effects across spatial scales which are organized by ecologically relevant biological hierarchies (i.e. from individual plant organs, such as a single leaf, to vegetation canopies) (Ozinga et al. 2013).
Traces of her "Rupestrian Sculptures" remain, as does a single leaf drawing, a fragile reminder of the artist, in a Havana museum.
And so the honour bestowed on Sir Wilson Harris, now 89, has passed almost as invisibly and inaudibly as the fall of a single leaf into a waterfall deep in the jungles that he writes about so peerlessly.
The Chicago and North Western Railway's Kinzie Street railroad bridge (also known as the Carroll Avenue bridge) is a single leaf bascule bridge across the north branch of the Chicago River in downtown Chicago, Illinois.
In fact it is possible to grow an entire plant from a single leaf, as is the case with Saintpaulia, or even a single cell – which can dedifferentiate into a callus (a mass of unspecialised cells) that can grow into a new plant.
In other plants, leaves vary between individuals (as sugar maples) or even dramatically within an individual (as red maples), or even within a single leaf (red maples).
For example, although several factors might be involved in driving a response of a leaf to an experimental treatment (e.g. herbivore presence, light availability, etc)., the effect size of a leaf-level response such as leaf N content is modified primarily by chemical processes occurring inside of a single leaf or stem (e.g. Reid et al. 1998).
While their simian counterparts wolf down six times as many leaves per day, sloths can take up to a week to digest a single leaf.
