It has a 500 to 1000 year life-cycle, near the end of which it builds itself a nest of twigs that then ignites ; both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix or phoenix egg arises, reborn anew to live again.

" bean ") and refers to young soybeans cropped with their twigs.

Mistletoe leaves and young twigs are used by herbalists, and it is popular in Europe, especially in Germany, for treating circulatory and respiratory system problems.

Cardea had also magic powers for protecting doorways ( by touching thresholds and posts with wet hawthorn twigs ) and newborn children by the aggression of the striges ( in the myth the young Proca ).

The young leaves and twigs are quite mucilaginous, and produce a citrus-like scent when crushed.

The birds use sticks and twigs as building materials, and males and females cooperate in all matters of rearing the young.

), other forbs, and some woody plants, including Sitka spruce, Douglas-fir, and young leaves and twigs of salal.

During the winter, they eat twigs, buds and the bark of shrubs and young fruit trees.

The nests of woodswallows are loosely constructed from fine twigs, and both parents help rear the young.

The young twigs as well as the distal portions of stem are flexible and often pendent.

Trees and shrubs have young twigs and smaller branches which are quite flexible and older growth such as trunks and large branches which are stiffer.

) " Kid " here refers to a young goat, not a human child, but the foliage and twigs are toxic to humans as well.

It presented: an exhaustive account of all the trees and shrubs growing in Great Britain and their history ; notes on remarkable examples growing in individual gardens ; drawings of leaves, twigs, fruits, and the shapes of leafless trees ; and entire portraits of trees in their young and mature state.

The stalks, young leaves, young twigs and young buds are downy.

On the buds of young oak twigs, one can often find the hard-shelled galls of Andricus kollari and Andricus quercustozae.

I think that we are here also talking of the kind of fear that a young boy has for a group of boys who are approaching at night along the streets of a large city.

Then, with staring eyes and lips drawn thin, Miriam said to the young woman, `` You are ugly -- uglier than you used to be, and you were always very ugly.

Defoe then commented, `` If they Could Draw that young Gentleman into Their Measures They would show themselves quickly, for they are not asham'd to Say They want only a head to Make a beginning ''.

and the young people should not even be permitted to see comedies till they are old enough to drink strong wine and sit at the public tables.

As they move through the college years our young men and women are `` socialized '' into a broadly similar culture, at the level of personal behavior.

But, here again, comparative benchmarks are lacking, and we do not know, in any case, what measure of profoundity and intensity to expect from healthy, young, secure and relatively inexperienced persons ; ;

Affirmatively Baker worked on the premise that `` young men spontaneously prefer to be decent, and that opportunities for wholesome recreation are the best possible cure for irregularities in conduct which arise from idleness and the baser temptations ''.

To those of my readers who find many of my opinions morally, or politically, or sociologically antiquated ( and I have reason to know that there are some such ), I would like to say what I have already hinted, namely, that some of my opinions may indeed be subject to some discount on the simple ground that I am no longer young and therefore incapable of being youthful of mind.

Some of the marble busts in the park are of young Englishmen who fought and died for Garibaldi.

The probable answer is that it will do so just as long as Russia can exercise a veto in favor of chaos and until young African nations wake up to the truth that out of false pride they are visiting ruin on Central Africa.

But when some of the squeals had subsided and she had been through one of those sessions that are so indispensable to the young female -- six girls sprawled on one bed, drinking Cokes and giggling -- she came back to the kitchen to talk with me a minute.

In addition, would not the young female public of Washington be afforded a greater degree of protection at night when they are on the streets if they were accompanied by a dog on a leash??

I have been absolutely shocked at the ineptness of the young ladies who are servicing person-to-person calls, special long-distance calls, etc..

Clearly the most provocative plays are all imported originals -- A Taste Of Honey, by Britain's young ( 19 when she wrote it ) Shelagh Delaney ; ;

You have heard him tell these young people that during his almost 50 years of service in the Congress he has seen the Kaisers and the Hitlers and the Mussolinis, the Tojos and Stalins and Khrushchevs, come and go and that we are passing on to them the freest Nation that mankind has ever known.

Life-preservers, the buckle-on kapok-filled kind, are held in readiness, too, for the very young.

) In most sports, as in most walks of life, the angels are on the side of those who begin young, and the Russian competitor of 16 has at least thirteen years of training behind him.

If the dance teachers of America make it their business to prepare their young charges for the gymnastics that must come some day if our schools are really responsible, we will be that much ahead.

Having ( through my unflagging effort and devotion ) achieved stardom, a fortune and a world-renowned wife at an age when most young men are casting their first vote, Letch proceeded to neglect them all.

I must add at once that these animals are what we call `` queens '', young females that have mated in the previous summer or autumn.

a marvelous arrangement, for it provides exactly what the bee queens need to make their beebread, a combination of honey and pollen with which the young of all species are fed.

He concluded that in the southern species, which are rapidly growing types, females mate at the age of two and a half and bear the first young when they are three.

In there aren't many young people in the neighborhood the modifier young takes dominant stress away from its head people: the fact that the young creatures of interest are people seems rather obvious.

The mother of young queen, Mrs. G. Henry Pierson Jr. chose a white brocade gown made on slim lines with panels of tomato-red and bright green satin extending down the back.

A number of species have come to be considered invasive, including, most notably in North America, dandelion, which was originally introduced by European settlers who used the young leaves as a salad green.

They are allowed in many types of competition, especially those where speed or jumping may be required, but are not allowed in most " flat " classes at horse shows, though an exception is made in a few classes limited exclusively to young or " green " horses who may not yet be fully trained.

alt = An overhead view of a young boy in a green tunic battling creatures

The juice of a green coconut can be served as a drink and the young flesh can be eaten.

In the original short film, a young man in a green wizard costume runs throughout America at super speed, much like the superhero The Flash.

New Zealand wines are typically meant to be consumed young and will often maintain their green herbal flavors even with extended bottle aging.

* Juvenile leaves, which follow immediately on seedlings and young plants, 2 – 6 cm long, single, green or often blue-green, and arranged spirally on the shoot.

A tea made by steeping young, green pine needles in boiling water ( known as " tallstrunt " in Sweden ) is high in vitamins A and C.

However this may have been nothing more than a symbolic relationship, as one account of the annual tribute owed each year to Majahpahit was a jar of areca juice obtained from the young green nuts of the areca palm.

However, in common use these distinctions are not clearly made, and many of the varieties so classified and given below are also used as vegetables, with their beans in pods while young ; cooked in whole cuisines ; and sold for the purpose ; for example, black eyed beans, lima beans and Toor or pigeon peas are thus eaten as fresh green beans, or cooked as part of a meal.

In Kristoffer Nyrop's book, The Kiss and its History, Nyrop describes the kiss of love as an " exultant message of the longing of love, love eternally young, the burning prayer of hot desire, which is born on the lovers ' lips, and ' rises ,' as Charles Fuster has said, ' up to the blue sky from the green plains ,' like a tender, trembling thank-offering.

The meat in a green young coconut is softer and more gelatinous than that in a mature coconut — so much so that it is sometimes known as coconut jelly.

The leaves are evergreen, alternate, simple, long and broad ; when the leaves are young they are orange-pink, rapidly changing to a dark, glossy red, then dark green as they mature.

Environmental conditions have a big effect on ultimate sugar levels-the vigneron can help by leaving the grapes on the vine until they are fully ripe, and by green harvesting and pruning to expose the young grapes to the sun.

However, it has been suggested that peahens entering a green peacock's territory are really his own juvenile or sub-adult young and that green peafowl are really monogamous in the wild.

In some varieties they start off dark reddish purple or bronze when young, gradually changing to a dark green, sometimes with a reddish tinge, as they mature.

The leaves of some other varieties are green practically from the start, whereas in yet others a pigment masks the green colour of all the chlorophyll-bearing parts, leaves, stems and young fruit, so that they remain a dramatic purple-to-reddish-brown throughout the life of the plant.

The name comes from the Greek ( khlóē ), meaning " young green shoot " and is one of the many names of the Greek goddess Demeter.

Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, who presided at the club dinner in 1910, allowed his two young children-Raymond and Cecily-to play cowboys and Indians on the cricket green during the week.

Each stem is topped by a dense cluster of thin, bright green, thread-like stems around in length, resembling a feather duster when the plant is young.

There has been little study of fire lizards since the early days, however, and wild green clutches produce few young because greens do not defend their nests or carefully choose secure sites.