genus of perennial herbs of cool temperate regions; sometimes placed in family Melanthiaceae.
By doing their own science, developing tropical countries can make sure that it is not only the problems of people in rich, temperate places that get solved.
His conclusions, published this week in Nature Climate Change, confirm for the tropics the findings for temperate climes of a recent American study.
"Any of the 60 plant species that make up the genus Vitis (family Vitaceae), native to the northern temperate zone, including varieties that may be eaten as table fruit, dried to produce raisins, or crushed to make grape juice or wine."
Its temperate climate sees little snow except in the highlands and mountainous areas.
Potatoes fit for processing are usually grown in more temperate latitudes. The tuber likes warm days and cool nights.
All will enjoy a luxury lifestyle in the cocoon with its own specially regulated temperate climate - including many facilities to make inhabitants of other cities envious.
Brazil itself still grows soya in its temperate southern states.
It is also the first tropical food-giant; the big five are all temperate producers.
A quarter of all sea species spend at least a part of their life in a reef-and many reefs are in cold or temperate waters.
biennial or perennial herbs of north temperate regions: winter cress.
Paradoxically, the same vortex has created quite different weather quirks in the U.S. and other temperate zones.
Many disease researchers have warned that rising global temperatures could lead to more disease, for example by allowing tropical diseases to expand their ranges into what are now temperate regions.
Conservative elements of the Japanese press do not share Mr Funabashi's temperate views, and it is relatively easy for them to whip up fury among ultranationalists.
Countries in temperate parts of the southern hemisphere should remain vigilant.
annual to perennial woody herbs of temperate North America, Europe and Asia: rockcress.
Perhaps a thousand of them live in one of the largest coastal temperate rain forests in the world.
On the other hand, the cocoa and peanuts in the M&M's are grown in more temperate regions, where they don't need irrigation because they pull water directly from the ground.
"Cherry:any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Prunus, especially P. avium or P. cerasus, native chiefly to northern temperate regions and having pink or white flowers and small, juicy drupes."
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