Sentence examples for with a pith from inspiring English sources

The quaint image of a researcher with a pith helmet and microscope working in a jungle is an illusion; the tough questions of basic science require sophisticated institutions and expensive tools of molecular biology -- and money.

Mr. Cohen has bad memories, too -- from childhood summers in Bradley Beach -- of a person with a pith helmet and too much sunscreen who came after small children to make sure they had beach tags.

He cites Jane Hathaway, a character in "The Beverly Hillbillies," "the tall, mannish spinster... who'd pop up with a pith helmet and a pair of binoculars, so starchy, so prim, so nerdy, though no one used that word in those days".

He once surprised his professor, Nobel laureate J. Michael Bishop, who discovered cancer-causing genes at UCSF, by dressing up for a slide presentation as a "great white hunter," with a pith helmet, white shoes and a fake rifle.

It is solid (i.e., not hollow or stuffed with a pith), and roughly the same width throughout its length.

When the Undertaker attempted to perform his signature move, the Tombstone Piledriver, Kim Chee ran into the ring and hit the Undertaker with a pith helmet.

But back in the 19th century, they were often amateurs who wandered off into the jungle with little more than a pith helmet and some vague ideas about noble savages.

The internodes, or stem regions between the nodes, are usually round in cross section and either hollow or filled with a spongy pith.

We describe a new genus of Permian gymnosperms that comprises decorticated stems and branches with a parenchymatous pith that is septate in stems but entire in branches and has scleroid cells that are organised singly or in bands.

Piper obtusilimbum C. DC. has a typical arrangement of tissues (Tepe et al. 2007), with a parenchymatous pith, medullary vascular bundles, a sclerenchymatous cylinder, peripheral vascular bundles, and a vascular cambium.

Conversely, implantation in rootstocks with a smaller pith diameter, such as '1103 Paulsen', causes reduction of viability and growth when using this kind of transponder, while viability and growth suffer after implanting UHF transponders of 3.5 ± 0.1 mm diameter in both rootstocks.