Sentence examples for grass shoots from inspiring English sources

Intercalary meristems are usually located at positions on the stem where leaves have emerged (nodes) and are largely responsible for elongation in grass shoots and leaves.

The cycle that the city ecologists are trying to revive works like this: the spartina grass shoots oxygen down to its roots and into the peat mud, nourishing microorganisms that break down pollutants.

But as soon as they were let out, they scattered across the lawns, up trees, grabbing everything in sight like looters in a riot - paw-paws, pumpkins and grass shoots.

Numerous grass shoots have penetrated the tephra surface.

For instance, when forage is insufficient, cattle use their teeth to clip grass shoots, breathe irregularly and feed in an erratic and interrupted pattern.

Birds sang in chorus, dried up fibers transformed to green grass shoots, cheetah cubs pranced across the dew, and rhinos travelled far distances across the 24,000 hectare reserve to reach watering holes that were mud and dust a day earlier.

He remembered that vividly: the day hot yet rainy, and the grass shooting up round him.

Twenty-five yeago ago, he said, he was lying right here, in the thick grass, shooting pigs that were eating his crops.

While standing on his back porch, I felt as if I was on a floating barge in the middle of the bay, surrounded by Spartina grass shooting up from the salt marshes and whipping in the breeze and a stunning view of many of the bay's unpopulated islands, the ones with the great names.

AMF in soil microsites significantly decreased total grass shoot biomass due to affecting Arrhenatherum elatius (Table  2, Fig.  2a).

She took motifs drawn from nature – flowers, grasses, shoots, the intricate patterns of the landscape – and transformed them into something absolutely new.