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whitlow
noun
An infection under the cuticle of a fingernail or toenail.
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In the river's lower course appear tundra plants such as mosses and lichens, partridge grasses, whitlow grass, arctic poppy, and cotton grass.
Twisted, or hoary, whitlow grass (D. incana) and the smaller D. norvegica have leaves on the stems and white flowers with notched petals.
The European common whitlow grass (Draba verna) is a low annual with small rosettes of narrow leaves, clusters of white flowers at the ends of leafless stems, and spear-shaped fruits borne on long stalks.
Yellow whitlow grass (D. aizoides) is a similar European species but bears yellow flowers.
I could picture the woodcock peening in the evening fields and forsythia and whitlow grass flowering.
Whitlow grasses usually bloom in the spring and bear small white or yellow flowers with four petals.
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Most of what I know about technical fabrics I've learnt from Dave Whitlow, a buyer of mountain clothing for the Ellis Brigham retail chain for more than 25 years.
Tom Whitlow, a Cornell plant ecologist whom Goldsworthy consulted, warned that if the growing tree should press against its unyielding stone girdle it could crush the living cambium immediately beneath the bark.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet Wearing soft-soled shoes and equipped with the quiet shutter of a Leica camera, the photographer James Whitlow Delano strives to remain virtually unseen by his subjects.
Recently, the photographer James Whitlow Delano travelled to Nagano to document the life of the older residents and capture the daily practices that helped them to reach such an advanced age.
The show features photographs from Kyoko Hamada — whom we commissioned last year to document the scene — as well as James Whitlow Delano, David Guttenfelder, Dominic Nahr, Kosuke Okahara, Q. Sakamaki, and Price himself, with video by Takahashi Munemasa and original prints by Midori Curtis.
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