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

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

From The Eye of Dread by Erskine, Payne

She was a vision in white—her graduation dress—with her snowy shoulders rising modestly from a tulle bertha.

From At Home with the Jardines by Bell, Lilian

Dexie exclaimed, as she lifted a handsome lace bertha.

From Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces by Eveleth, Stanford