root-eating

In the late nineteenth century when phylloxera devastated vineyards in southern France, Mourvdre lost out since it was difficult to graft onto phylloxera-resistant rootstock, which turned out to be the successful remedy against the root-eating louse.

A Year of Wine Tyler Colman 2008

It was also familiar in some strange paleolithic root-eating way, a thing retained in the snake brain of early experience.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

It was also familiar in some strange paleolithic root-eating way, a thing retained in the snake brain of early experience.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

Growers in California have also been fighting a root-eating pest since 1988, ripping up vineyards and replanting at a cost of up to $50,000 an acre.

Battle Of The Bottle 2008

In the late nineteenth century when phylloxera devastated vineyards in southern France, Mourvdre lost out since it was difficult to graft onto phylloxera-resistant rootstock, which turned out to be the successful remedy against the root-eating louse.

A Year of Wine Tyler Colman 2008

It was also familiar in some strange paleolithic root-eating way, a thing retained in the snake brain of early experience.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

Moreover, in these root-eating birds and in some others of like habits of life, the tips of the bill end in hard points, which gives them additional facility in dealing with herbaceous food.

On the Parts of Animals 2002

Because June beetles lay eggs close to foraging areas, the root-eating larvae are a potential risk for associated crops (Hilje et al. 1993).

Chapter 36 1990

· An ounce of ground up pill bugs (root-eating soil pests) was mixed with two ounces of water to make a paste and then diluted, one ounce to a gallon of water (three milliliters to 3.78 liters of water).

Chapter 15 1982

Telegraph_, December, 1909, wrote: 'It is very generally asserted by those who advocate a purely vegetable diet that man's teeth are of the shape and pattern which we find in the fruit-eating, or in the root-eating, animals allied to him.

No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes Rupert H. Wheldon