| Almost round, they have a bur or mosslike fringed cap that covers at least half the nut. |
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| No doubt many other species have benefited from the bur oak's productivity and protection. |
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| The old bur oak's leaves are now large and leathery, the green acorns nearly the size of golf balls. |
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| We no longer need bur oak groves to act as safety nets for Conestoga wagons heading west. |
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| Native trees, such as bur oak and shagbark hickory, grow amid osage-orange hedgerows. |
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| The large bur oak trees were the most striking feature of the oak savannah community. |
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| But in this early stage of the 21st century, the bur oak still serves important ecological needs. |
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| Other weeds, including sand bur and thistle, can also scratch and irritate your skin. |
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| Able to live 200 to 400 years and named for its bristly husks, or caps, bur oak goes by the names prairie oak, blue oak, scrub oak, or mossycup oak. |
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| And the undercoat lining must be also thick and compact to prevent easy bur sticking. |
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| Because here cutting speeds depends of the noise of a carbide bur on the metal. |
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| If you wish to bur y the cable with gravel or sand, be careful to place it in an area where it will not be damaged by digging. |
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| If you primarily process materials from one of the two groups, equip both bur sets with the same pair of milling instruments. |
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| Commission inspectors cannot carry out direct inspections bur monitor those carried out by national inspection services. |
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| Game birds such as wild turkey, ruffed grouse, and wood duck utilize bur oak for cover as well as food. |
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| Forests of bur oak serve as breeding sites for numerous songbirds, including indigo bunting, vesper sparrow, and yellow-throated vireo, which breed in these areas exclusively. |
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| I want to collect the large acorns from a bur oak near my home. |
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| Oak lacebug can turn the leaves off-color, causing long-term stress that heavily defoliates bur oaks in shelterbelt plantings, especially during dry weather. |
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| The most common shrubs are creosote bush, ocotillo, and bur sage. |
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| In areas within bur oak groves where more sunlight could reach the ground, typical full-sun prairie species like little bluestem or big bluestem could be found. |
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| In the northeastern foothills, on relatively dry slopes, bur oak dominates above an understory of hop hornbeam, smooth sumac, coralberry, and poison ivy. |
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| One must truly look at the ins and outs of the amendment on compensation which, I feel, does not concern the federal government, bur rather the provincial and territorial levels. |
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| Other white oaks include swamp white oak,, chestnut oak, bur oak, swamp chestnut oak, chinkapin oak, overcup oak and post oak. |
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| Some of the best drought-tolerant trees are bur oak, Texas red oak, Texas ash, cedar elm, Eve's necklace, chinkapin oak, and Lacey oak. |
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| Swamp white oak is commonly mistaken for bur oak because of similarities in their habitat and mature bark. |
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| The overall consensus of the meeting was that religions are entitled to participate in public policy formation on an equal footing with civil society organisations, bur not in a privileged, nor a marginalized role. |
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| Some of the seeds currently for sale are the plains coreopsis, bur marigold, black-eyed Susan, and lyre-leaf sage. |
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| In Fayette County, about 90 percent of the bur oaks have vanished in only 60 years, mostly due to development. |
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| The age and size class of the bur oaks indicate that this site was forested for several decades or more prior to settlement. |
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| Each has distinctly different leaf shapes and is easy to identify, but bur oaks also have a unique, thick, cork-like bark that is deeply grooved. |
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| Culturally and ecologically, this region is the South, a country of turbid waters flowing beneath white oak, bur oak, Shumard oak, and ash. |
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| Moorhen tail movements may operate in a sexual context as the study was performed before the breeding season, bur Alvarez et al. |
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| An anterior osteotomy was made with a 701 fissure bur and completed with fine osteotomes to avoid disruption of the lingual mucosa. |
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| For this purpose, use a rose-head bur with a ball diameter of 2 to 3 mm. |
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| Police are appealing for infor mation after the attempted bur glary in Morpeth. |
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| A bur hole was made to accommodate placement of an emergent ventriculotomy drain to decompress the tension pneumocephalus. |
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| Other kinds of stone, such as quartzite, lydite and jasper were also used, bur these were tare. |
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| The NAIC's work does not stop at these projects, bur goes on. |
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| There are bur and black oaks and, down the way, a shagbark hickory or two. |
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| The Employee Benefit Plans ARA provides concise information about how recent industry, regulatory and professional developments may affect bur clients and your audits. |
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