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pieris
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noun
- any plant of a genus, Pieris, of American and Asiatic shrubs, esp P. formosa forrestii, grown for the bright red colour of its young foliage: family Ericaceae
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Origin of pieris1
Example Sentences
Speaking at the assembly, the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the UN, Ambassador Mohan Pieris, said seagrasses were “one of the most valuable marine ecosystems on earth,†highlighting, among other things, their outsize contribution to carbon sequestration.
The complete disruption of mir-193 eliminated black and dark wing colours in the African squinting bush brown butterfly, Bicyclus anynana, the Indian cabbage white butterfly, Pieris canidia, and the common mornon butterfly, Papilio polytes.
However, researchers uncovered a rare subset of species such as the blue butterflies -- Lysandra -- and the group containing cabbage white butterflies -- Pieris - that have defied these genome structure constraints.
The Olympics Games “stand as a symbol of tolerance, peace and cooperation among diverse peoples, cultures and nations,†UN General Assembly vice president Mohan Pieris said.
Further tests confirmed that the species with the most pronounced response only reacted strongly when the egg material came from one group of butterflies, Pieris, which lays eggs on these plants in the wild.
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