Sentence examples for certain orchids from inspiring English sources

Certain orchids are rapidly multiplied by this method.

In various parts of the world, certain orchids are also used for food or food supplements.

Apogamy involving an unfertilized egg (a phenomenon termed parthenogenesis) occurs in certain orchids.

Mosquitoes with their long tongues are effective pollinators of certain orchids (Habenaria species) in North American swamps.

Or they may instead be positive, as in the wasp, which remains alive if it is avoided by the predator; in the cleaner, which feeds on parasites harmful to other fish; or in those hymenopteran females whose male-attracting signals are mimicked by certain orchids.

Certain orchid tubers are shaped like testicles, and it has been long claimed that, when consumed, they are an aphrodisiac.

While certain orchid types require more light than the others, no orchid variety likes to be exposed to direct light all of the time.

Certain Ecuadorian orchids (Oncidium) are pollinated by male bees of the genus Centris; vibrating in the breeze, the beelike flowers are attacked headlong by the strongly territorial males, who mistake them for competitors.

We investigated how flower fragrance was generated in certain Phalaenopsis orchids by determining the chemical components of the floral scent, identifying floral expressed-sequence-tags (ESTs), and deducing the pathways of floral scent biosynthesis in Phalaneopsis bellina by bioinformatics analysis.

The very tiny pollen grains of orchids, certain mimosas, and milkweeds are clustered in waxy masses called pollinia (singular pollinium).

Notwithstanding, mosquitoes are considered to have two important ecological roles: first, they pollinate some types of plants e.g. in Alaska Aedes pollinates certain types of orchids (Thien 1969) or in the Netherlands certain types of Silene (catchfly) (Larson, Kevan, and Inouye, 2011).