"equivalent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They are the botanical equivalents of aggressive young executives determined to claw their way to the top.
- Their presence this spring on Park Avenue indicates the growing importance of gardening with heirloom and antique plants - the botanical equivalent of carrying square one with you.
- The studies were carried out by two groups of plant developmental biologists, both working with Arabidopsis, a plant whose genetics are so well known that it is the botanical equivalent of the fruit fly.
- By now we had crossed through half a dozen vegetation zones - the botanical equivalent of a journey from Canada to New Mexico.
- Was there a botanical equivalent of surgical glue, which could hold it all together again and allow it to heal?
- The wisteria, for example, is the botanical equivalent of those Wall Street people who want to have everything wrapped in their crushing embrace.
- The botanical equivalent of zoology's term "valid name" is correct name.
- He had to translate early botanical, English, Scots and Gaelic names into their modern botanical equivalents, although it was not always possible to be precise.
- Here was a plant that had survived for millenniums on the botanical equivalent of bread and water.
- The gene-for-gene relationship is an approximate botanical equivalent of antigens and antibodies in mammals.
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