Testa vs Texta - What's the difference?
testa | texta |
(botany) A seed coat.
* 1840 , James Scott Bowerbank, A History of the Fossil Fruits and Seeds of the London Clay ,
* 1969 , C. W. Bennett, Seed Transmission of Plant Viruses'', Alison Smith, ''Advances in Virus Research , Volume 14,
* 1977 , Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australian Journal of Plant Physiology ,
* 2005 , D. W. Dickson, D. De Waele, Nematode Parasites of Peanut'', Michel Luc, Richard A. Sikora, John Bridge, ''Plant Parasitic Nematodes in Subtropical and Tropical Agriculture ,
* 2007 , J. Smartt, Evolution of American Phaseolus beans under domestication'', Peter John Ucko, G. W. Dimbleby (editors), ''The Domestication and Exploitation of Plants and Animals ,
(marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm; the test.
(Australia) A felt-tip pen, often coloured and usually wide-tipped for use by children.
* 2003 , Mark Fox, Discovering Australian Animals ,
* 2008 , Ghristopher Cyrill, The Ganges and Its Tributaries'', Alice Pung (editor), ''Growing Up Asian in Australia ,
* 2009 , Colin McLaren, Infiltration: The True Story of the Man Who Cracked the Mafia , Melbourne University Press,
As nouns the difference between testa and texta
is that testa is head while texta is (australia) a felt-tip pen, often coloured and usually wide-tipped for use by children.testa
English
Noun
- The testa develops from the tissue, the integument, originally surrounding the ovule.
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- The seeds are furnished with a reticulated testa , very much in appearance like that of the seeds of two closely-allied pericarps in the cabinet of my friend Mr. Ward, of Wellclose-square, the names of which I have been unable to obtain, but which present strong evidence of belonging to the Malvaceæ .
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- In tests with the Lincoln and Virginia varieties of cowpea, Crowley (1959) found that, in plants infected with bean southern mosaic virus before blossoming, the virus was present in nearly 100% of the testae and endosperms of seeds of both varieties, but could not be detected in the embryos.
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- Thus, two conditions must be satisfied for the testas' to have this effect: contact between the '''testas''' and the radicle, and the presence of at least half of the ' testas .
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- A.[Aphelenchoides] arachidis is a parasite of pods, testae, roots and hypocotyls, but not the cotyledons, embryos or other parts of the plant (Bos, 1977a; Bridge et al., 1977).
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- One of the most remarkable features of cultivated beans is the enormous range of testa colours and patterns which can be found.
Anagrams
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Noun
(en noun)page 34,
- Here is what a wombat burrow may look like. Using coloured pencils or textas , colour in the wombat burrows.
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- He pencilled a map of India onto a piece of chipboard, and then went over the outline with a texta'. He went over the ' texta outline with a razorblade and then, with a knife, he cut away the excess chipboard.
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- Minute weighing scales sat on top of desks, glass syringe kits lay idle, mug shots were pinned here and there, some with a dart in the forehead, or ?caught? written in texta .
