10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PIN-EYED»
Discover the use of
pin-eyed in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
pin-eyed and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
But, as I was saying before I thus diverged upon vanity, why is it that a Primula
can be both pin-eyed and thrumeyed in the same species ? For so I discovered
all those decoras to be, and so was the blue Primrose with which I have
attempted ...
Reginald John Farrer, 2011
2
Invention and Evolution: Design in Nature and Engineering
In the primrose, the nectar is at the bottom of the tubular central part of the flower,
the corolla; the plants are of two kinds, pin-eyed, in which the stigma is near the
entrance to the corolla and the anthers well down inside it, and thrum-eyed, ...
3
Longman A-Level Biology: Growth, Development and Reproduction
(b) nectar secreted around the base of ovary filament attached at top of corolla
tube receptacle Figure 3.9 Longitudinal section of (a) pin-eyed flower and (b)
thrum-eyed flower of primrose. • In thrum-eyed flowers, the anthers are at the
mouth of ...
Similarly, the pollen from a pin-eyed flower can be transferred to the stigma,
situated half-way down the tube, of a thrum-eyed flower. This, however, does not
exhaust the methods of pollination, for pollen from a thrum- eyed flower can
easily ...
5
Nick Baker's British Wildlife: A Month by Month Guide
£IGHT: Primroses If you look closely at their flowers you should notice the 'Pin-
eyed' Primrose with a long stigma in the centre ana its pollen- producing anthers
tucked away at the bottom of the flower's throat. The 'Thrum- eyed' has exactly the
...
Nick Baker, Nick Baker, Wildlife Trusts (Great Britain), 2006
6
The Embryology Of Angiosperms, 5E
The stigma in the thrum-eyed flowers is at the level of anthers in the pin- eyed
flowers and vice-versa. As a rule, pollen from thrum-eyed flowers can bring about
effective pollination only in pin-eyed flowers and, similarly, pollen from pin-eyed ...
S P Bhatnagar S S Bhojwani, 2009
Ivan flourished a shining five-inch blade and flipped it to the pin-eyed man, who
caught it in his left hand while his right still held Irina's jaw in a painful, viselike
grip. He brandished the blade before her eyes, then held the point to her cheek.
In the pin-eyed flowers the tip of the pistil is at the top of the tube made by the
petals, with the pollen boxes half-way down. In the thrum-eyed flower the
opposite is true. If an insect visits a pin-eyed flower to get the nectar from the
bottom of the ...
9
Common Families of Flowering Plants
They are of two kinds, 'pin-eyed' and 'thrum-eyed', which differ in the relative
positions of the style and stamens. This variation is known as heterostyly.
Pollination. The presence of two different kinds of flower, each kind pollinating
the other, ...
In a long-styled 0r “pin-eyed” flower the stigma is at the top of the corolla tube and
the stamens half-way down, while in a. shortstyled or “thrum-eyed” flower the
positions of the stigma and stamens are reversed. When a Bee visits a Primrose ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PIN-EYED»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
pin-eyed is used in the context of the following news items.
Teddy bears turned inside out are the stuff of nightmares: Artist's …
... a charm about them, full of seams and billowing cotton stuffing, while others are fully nightmarish, all misshapen and lopsided and pin-eyed. «Belfast Telegraph, Nov 14»
The Apprentice 2014: Sir Alan Sugar's slippery candidates return but …
And looking down the list of angular, fashionably stubbled, pin-eyed wannabes you can't help but feel that The Apprentice has all but given up ... «Hull Daily Mail, Oct 14»
First and foremost rose for the spring
Some flowers of P. vulgaris are pin-eyed, with a prominent style held above short stamens. Others are thrum-eyed, with long stamens held ... «The Oxford Times, Mar 14»
Dark Lies the Island by Kevin Barry: review
When he goes to visit a camp of “new-age travellers,” their children “pin-eyed and unpleasantly lively,” on the outskirts of town, it's ostensibly to ... «Toronto Star, Jan 14»
A serious man: the intensity of Jake Gyllenhaal
That class of pin-eyed seriousness is, of course, what's made him the actor he is. There's a heft to his performance opposite Heath Ledger in ... «Irish Times, Sep 13»
Looking back at The BFG
... Cosgrove's BFG was less whimsical looking than Blake's scratchy elephant-eared and pin-eyed creation, and slightly scarier, to begin with at ... «Den Of Geek, Sep 12»
Luke Blackall: English accent is access all areas in California
But all that means is that you don't get as many pin-eyed chaps called Jack trying to stroke your face at 3am, as always seems to happen at ... «The Independent, Apr 12»
How to grow Primula 'Francisca'
He was the first to point out that some flowers were pin-eyed, with a prominent style, while others were thrum-eye, with long stamens. «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 11»
Primrose — early sign of spring
Children had long known about these differences, the pin-eyed version apparently being much better for threading together to form a necklace, ... «Isle of Wight County Press, Feb 11»
20 years of the Warp factor
But as the hardcore rave Warp was at the forefront of gained an unwanted reputation as a haven for topless, aggressive, pin-eyed hooligans no ... «Independent, Aug 09»
