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
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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
My dress was black velvet with a very rich bertha.
From Letters from England by Bancroft, Elizabeth Davis
And there's that lace of mine you can have for a bertha.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.