Definitions
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- adjective having white seeds
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Examples
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In unrelentingly cold and wet spring seasons, beans run the risk of rotting, and the white-seeded ones seem most eager to perish.
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All in all, these white-seeded, tannin-free genotypes appear to be slightly less bird resistant than the standard strongly resistant, high-tannin types.
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Young pods or immature beans can be eaten green (beans taste similar to a sweet pea-a white-seeded variety is best for this).
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However, some white-seeded types that are both tannin free and shunned by birds are already available.
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Thus, although much more research is needed, white-seeded triticales are soon likely to be available for those places where markets overwhelmingly demand white flour.
6 Food and Feed Uses 1989
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However, the plant breeding department at Punjab Agricultural University in Ludhiana, India, has recently produced white-seeded types.
6 Food and Feed Uses 1989
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Mr. Berkeley, [209] wherein a large white-seeded gourd presented a majority of flowers in which the pollen was replaced by ovules.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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She bent over and pulled the milky-stalked, white-seeded head of a dandelion.
The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887
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Among the plants mentioned by Thaër as valuable for the oil in their seeds, are the oily radish (Raphanus chinensis oleiferus), the sunflower, and the common poppy, Papaver somniferum; the oil from the white-seeded variety is preferable on account of its taste.
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(white-seeded types) seem more susceptible to damage than Amaranthus hypochondriacus.
3 Production 1984
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