bertha

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To show that it was the PKF proteins that were doing the killing, University of British Columbia molecular biologist David Theilmann and colleagues infected bertha armyworms with two baculovirus species, MacoNPV-A and MacoNPV-B.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 29, 2021

Edwardian sleeves and bertha collars, ribbons, roses and trailing black velvet are the tricks of the trade.

From Time Magazine Archive

She wore an old black silk frock with muslin bertha.

From A Daughter of the Vine by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

"Suppose I am found out and expelled from Beechwood in disgrace," she suggested laughingly, as she arranged her lace bertha before the glass.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

She pulled the lace bertha from her shoulders, and began to take out her hairpins, "I sha'n't be the one to say 'Let us be married.'"

From The Awakening of Helena Richie by Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell