How To Use charlock In A Sentence
- And the year in which they brought it no more, two Sulphurs, with dresses like sunlight on a charlock-field, came with the rest to the moon-daisies 'Feast; because not once in all their years of marriage had the perfect rose been lacking. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
- It is the first known case of such an occurrence in Britain and overturns previous scientific assumptions that charlock was unlikely to cross-breed with GM oilseed rape.
- UC Riverside scientists studying the genetic makeup of wild radishes in California have determined that the California wild radish is descended from hybrids between two species: cultivated radish and the weed, jointed charlock. Science press releases
- Most botanists believe the place to be W. Asia and the main ancestral wild plant to be Raphanus raphanistrum, a type of charlock, but it is likely that other wild ancestors would have crossed with this.
- The oily burst of flavor sent fumes up the back of my throat that made my eyes water, but they did cleanse my tongue of the taste of grease and scorch, and would, with the charlock leaves, maybe be sufficient to ward off scurvy. Dragonfly in Amber
- He also mentions, as a more or less remarkable fact, "that a house, which was known to have existed for two hundred years, was pulled down, and, no sooner was the surface soil exposed to the influence of light and moisture, than it became covered with a crop of wild-mustard or charlock. Life: Its True Genesis
- I'd found a late patch of charlock near the stream, leaves wilting and brown around the edges, and had brought back a handful in my pocket, along with a few juniper berries picked during a stop earlier in the day. Dragonfly in Amber
- Such dry waste places send up plants to flower, such as charlock and poppy, quicker than happens in better soil, but they do not reach nearly the height or size. The Toilers of the Field
- And he instances these facts to show that the seeds of this charlock, and these dyke plants, had lain dormant in the soil from the time the dykes were built, and the house erected. Life: Its True Genesis
- It is the first known case of such an occurrence in Britain and overturns previous scientific assumptions that charlock was unlikely to cross-breed with GM oilseed rape.
