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bertha

[bur-thuh] / ˈbɜr θə /




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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

About her neck she put a bertha, kerchiefwise, and pinned it with a brooch of curiously wrought gold.

From The Eye of Dread by Payne Erskine

But the first thing in the morning brought a counter-wire— “Sorry must put you off dick and bertha got scarlatina holt.”

From A Veldt Vendetta by Bertram Mitford

My dress was my currant-colored or grosseille velvet with a wreath of white Arum lilies woven into a kind of turban, with green leave and bouquet to match, on the bertha of Brussels lace.

From Letters from England by Elizabeth Davis Bancroft


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