nematode
nematode
Definition
nema·tode (nem′ə tōd′)
nematode
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- apply: Avoid applying nematodes in bright conditions; apply in dull weather or in the evenings.
- plant: An introduction to plant parasitic nematodes will include the students extracting cyst nematodes from infected soil.
Adjective modifier
- parasitic: Plant parasitic nematodes cause over $ 125 billion annual losses to world agriculture.
- plant-parasitic: This information has been obtained from nearly 5,000 articles published over the past 90 years in six journals that deal mainly with plant-parasitic nematodes.
- filarial: The obvious examples are genes to block the transmission of viruses and malaria parasites, as well as filarial nematodes.
- free-living: At present time the fauna of the free-living nematodes in the basin of Odessa port comprises 30 species, belonging to 4 orders.
- gastro-intestinal: Puppies and kittens: For the treatment of puppies and kittens infected with gastro-intestinal nematodes and puppies infected with protozoa ( Giardia spp.
- gastrointestinal: A particular problem in east Africa are gastrointestinal nematodes.
Modifies a noun
- caenorhabditis: Our exploration of model organisms, focusses this time on the tiny nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans.
- elegans: Our exploration of model organisms, focusses this time on the tiny nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans.
- worm: For the nematode worm was an unknown in the world of model organisms.
- parasite: I worked on muscle, bone marrow and nematode parasites before I finally became involved in rheumatology research.
- pest: Leaf spot and rust fungi are the main culprits, as well as viral diseases and nematode pests.
- infection: SSH shows promise for studying nematode gene expression post infection.
Noun used with modifier
- root-knot: An environmentally safer and lower cost solution may lie in an organism even smaller than the root-knot nematode.
- cyst: Potato cyst nematode cysts are only 0.5 mm in diameter on average.
- knot: A color photographs of the root knot nematode is also provided.
- potato: Potato cyst nematode cysts are only 0.5 mm in diameter on average.
- root: A color photographs of the root knot nematode is also provided.
- living: Nematodes The effect of growing transgenic potatoes on free living nematodes is being evaluated using samples from ongoing field trials.
Browse dictionary entries near nematode
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