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
"Suppose I am found out and expelled from Beechwood in disgrace," she suggested laughingly, as she arranged her lace bertha before the glass.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
A bertha of lace fell over the satin bodice.
From Ishmael Or, In the Depths by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
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 Eliza Calvert Hall
