 | And Sons Sutton and Sons - Technology & Engineering - 2008 - 450 pages
...are caused by the action of innumerable small thread-like worms named =Heterodera radicicola=, range from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea, and when they are present in large numbers the total failure of the Cucumber crop is the invariable... | |
 | 1859 - 756 pages
...inconvenience to the animal. Many oxen are evidently affected during life, as they are found in the bladder from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea. The latter named are generally very numerous. It is necessary to bear in mind that the , penis of the... | |
 | Medicine - 1890 - 854 pages
...villous, arborescent proliferations which adhere to the base by longer or shorter pedicles and vary from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea or bean. They are often covered by layers of flbnn. Indeed it seems as if their growth is due, in part,... | |
 | Mineralogy - 1882 - 434 pages
...Corn., 1841, p. 38 toads' -eye tin have been plentifully found ; tin in globular distinct concretions, from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea has occurred more sparingly ; and of botryoidal-tin only a few specimens have been met •with. . .... | |
 | Geological Survey of Canada - Paleontology - 1878 - 604 pages
...rock. The amygdaloid contains calcite, feldspar and quartz, of different colours, the amygdules ranging from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea. Grey, greenish and lightblue crumbling shales, generally too friable to show organic remains, but covered,... | |
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... from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea, scattered through a large body of sand or clay, and in this state it is called by the Mandingoes sanoo munko (gold powder). 
