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

This was placed under the bertha of cobweb lace, and demurely in the middle of the short-waisted bodice.

From Woman as Decoration by Burbank, Emily

Miss Schuyler wore a pink brocade of the richest and most delicate quality, and a bertha of Brussels lace.

From The Conqueror by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

Leslie unpinned from its cambric cover a gray iron barége, with a narrow puffing round the hem of the full skirt and the little pointed bertha cape.

From A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)