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US
/ˈbɝˌbæŋk/
]
NOUN
- United States horticulturist who developed many new varieties of fruits and vegetables and flowers (1849-1926)
How To Use Burbank In A Sentence
- Burbank worked out in his mind and by actual experiments _distinctive methods_ of development -- _development and changes along particular, definite lines. Certain Success
- Burbank spent seventeen years hybridizing the common oxeye daisy with the English daisy, the German daisy, and the small but brilliantly white Japanese daisy. Jane S. Smith: Daisies, Weddings, and Making the Ideal Real
- In an effort to curtail vehicles running red lights, "tattletale" lights have been installed at two intersections in the Burbank area. Local News from union-bulletin.com
- When we got to the Burbank Airport, the skycap asked for our IDs.
- They see that as part of their churchly mission, says Matthew Burbank, a political expert at the University of Utah. Mitt Romney leads the charge as Mormonism moves into the American mainstream
- In fact, the Shasta daisy is a creation of Luther Burbank, the California plant breeder who was also responsible for the Burbank potato, the plumcot, the Burbank Crimson California poppy, and hundreds of other botanical introductions. Jane S. Smith: Daisies, Weddings, and Making the Ideal Real
- The new "tattletale" lights were installed last week on Highway 12 at the intersections of Highway 124 and Humorist Road in Burbank. Tri-City Herald: Front
- The film was shot on sound stages in Burbank, and partly in the real locations of Los Angeles itself, but many of the city sequences were models made in workshops.
- The paper was written whilst on sabbatical at Pennsylvania State University, where much logistical support and scientific stimulus was given by D. W. Burbank and colleagues.
- All this having been true to Burbank, if I caught his thought correctly, the great scientist's tolerant, yet withal inflexible, attitude toward those who were disparaging and excoriating him is entirely understandable.