How to Use nematode in a Sentence

nematode

noun

• The nematodes feast on the buds and leaves of beech trees.
  — Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2023
• And how have the nematodes spread so far so quickly in the U.S.?
  — Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2023
• One of the tricks is to find an area in full sun that has not had root knot nematodes.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• Have the soil tested for nematodes, and if present, remove an inch or two of the topsoil with the old sod.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Nov. 2019
• The team found that the Mono Lake nematodes are quite unusual.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 1 Oct. 2019
• The loss of his nematodes is the second death that is introduced in the opening pages.
  — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2020
• There are many species of round worms (nematodes) that can infest fish.
  — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 27 May 2020
• Researchers thaw the soil, taking care to not warm it too quickly to avoid cooking the nematodes.
  — Carolyn Y. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2023
• The southern root-knot and reniform nematodes are the two species that give gardeners the most problems.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 13 May 2017
• The nematode genome has long been sequenced and this species was the first to have its nervous system mapped entirely.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2021
• Other pests and diseases include certain kinds of nematodes, root rot and blight, as well as slugs and snails.
  — C. Claiborne Ray, New York Times, 17 July 2017
• These ranged from fungi and lichens, through herbaceous and woody plants to nematodes, insects, bats and passerine birds.
  — John Healey, John Halley and Kalliopi Stara, Smithsonian, 17 May 2018
• Fungi kill nematodes and insects in the soil that might attack roots, for instance.
  — NOLA.com, 29 July 2017
• Thoroughly cover the area with the nematodes, then water them in.
  — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 18 Dec. 2017
• Soil from the landscape and top soils may contain insects, diseases, nematodes and weeds.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 2 June 2018
• When a nematode wriggles around a petri dish, what’s going on inside a tiny roundworm’s even tinier brain?
  — Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2023
• The threat to beech trees comes from a slithering, worm-like nematode that originated in Japan.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 1 Apr. 2022
• On one farm the faecal nematode-egg count per animal dropped by a quarter.
  — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
• However, in their free time, some members of the lab search out nematodes in unusual places.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 1 Oct. 2019
• Another way to avoid nematodes is to grow figs in a container.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• The disease is caused by nematodes, or microscopic roundworms, that are present in buds over the winter.
  — Alysa Guffey, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
• When it was tested on nematode worms infected with the bacteria, the researchers found the same results.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 6 July 2018
• Try to find a spot for new okra plantings where root knot nematodes have not affected previous crops.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 10 June 2017
• As such, there are recommended remedies for the problem and one is the use of predatory nematodes.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 13 July 2018
• The beige, half-a-millimeter-long nematode worm hardly looks like a parasitic threat.
  — Kyle Frischkorn, Smithsonian, 25 July 2017
• The worm in this case is Strongyloides stercoralis, a nematode or roundworm known to infect people.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 22 Apr. 2022
• Those bacteria then have to fend off the ones already living in the insect larva, as well as all the other bacteria the nematodes just spewed out.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 20 Nov. 2019
• The nematodes have proven both alarming and fascinating to the researchers studying them.
  — Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2023
• Some even release tiny sickle-shape spores that, when swallowed by a nematode, wreak havoc from within.
  — Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2023
• The nematode, Holder suspects, could be carried by flies like those Brown has reported.
  — Jacob Brogan, Smithsonian, 19 May 2017

Last Updated: 28 May 2024