napier
IPA: nˈeɪpiɝ
Root Word: Napier
noun
- A Scottish surname originating as an occupation for someone who sold table linen, or was in charge of the linen of a great house.
- John Napier, Scottish mathematician etc.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A locality in the Riverina district, New South Wales, Australia.
- An unincorporated place in the township of Adelaide Metcalfe, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada.
- A city in Hawke's Bay, North Island, New Zealand.
- A village in Overberg, Western Cape, South Africa.
- A ghost town in Holt County, Missouri, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States.
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Examples of "napier" in Sentences
- Some hybridization work has already been done involving napier grass (Pennisetum purpureum).
- It has outstanding promise as a "safety line" to anchor broad strips of other grasses, such as napier grass.
- Another neat educational tool we got at school and at home 'cause my parents were both teachers was napier rods.
- Foliage of the tree legumes gliricidia, leucaena, and sesbania as a supplement to napier grass diets for growing goats.
- Grasses grown from single or double-node stem cuttings, such as dhonde, narkat and napier, require only one slip per planting drill.
- Pearl millet x napier grass hybrids have been released for perennial fodder supplies in India, the United States, and various other nations.
- Usually, a piece of stem with at least two or three nodes is used, but the most vigorous species, such as napier, can be propagated from single-node cuttings if material is scarce.
- Although it is not yet possible to regenerate protoplasts in pearl millet, it is possible to regenerate suspension cultures (including those of pearl millet x napier grass hybrids) into whole plants.
- In isolated locations (and on sites quelea should find irresistible), they planted plots of napier grass and shaped them with slightly narrowed waists where the barriers and traps could be easily erected.
- In addition, local farmers have found that the foliage makes excellent mulch, and they say that (compared to napier grass, for example) it is easier to manage because it does not seed or take root when they spread it on their gardens or fields.
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