bertha

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To show that it was the PKF proteins that were doing the killing, University of British Columbia molecular biologist David Theilmann and colleagues infected bertha armyworms with two baculovirus species, MacoNPV-A and MacoNPV-B.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 29, 2021

Edwardian sleeves and bertha collars, ribbons, roses and trailing black velvet are the tricks of the trade.

From Time Magazine Archive

I mean to have my next dress made with a green silk fichu, a moire antique bertha, and little point lace peplums and gussets, just like Miss MESTAYER'S.

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 05, April 30, 1870 by Various

She pulled the lace bertha from her shoulders, and began to take out her hairpins, "I sha'n't be the one to say 'Let us be married.'"

From The Awakening of Helena Richie by Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell

Then from the scented darkness of the treasure box she drew out a bertha and sleeves of filmy lace and laid them on the silk.

From Clover and Blue Grass by Hall, Eliza Calvert