The Desert Locust is one of about a dozen species of short-horned grasshoppers (Acridoidea). The Desert Locust (Schistocerca gregaria) is the most destructive migratory pest in the world. (FAO, 2024. Desert Locust. https://www.fao.org/locusts/faqs/en/ and https://www.fao.org/locusts/en/)
Gluten-free foods are a) dietary foods consisting of or made only from one or more ingredients which do not contain wheat (i.e. all Triticum species, such as durum wheat, spelt, and khorasan wheat), rye, barley, oats or their crossbred varieties, and the gluten level does not exceed 20 mg/kg in total, based on the food as sold or distributed to the consumer, and/or b) consisting of one or more ingredients from wheat, rye, barley, oats or their crossbred varieties, which have been specially processed to remove gluten, and the gluten level does not exceed 20 mg/kg in total, based on the food as sold or distributed to the consumer. (Adapted from FAO & WHO. 2015. Standard for Foods for Special Dietary Use for Persons Intolerant to Gluten. Codex Standard, No. CXS CXS 118-1979. Rome. https://www.fao.org/fao-who-codexalimentarius)
Bronchitis is inflammation of the main air passages to the lungs. (International Classification of Diseases, Eleventh Revision (ICD-11), World Health Organization (WHO) 2019/2021 https://icd.who.int/browse11. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 3.0 IGO licence (CC BY-ND 3.0 IGO).)
Agents that cause an increase in the expansion of a bronchus or bronchial tubes. (Decs/MeSH. 2025, Bronchodilator Agents https://decs.bvsalud.org/en/ths/resource/?id=2021)
A form of parental care behavior that occurs in egg-laying animals, during which a parent retains eggs within or near the body and provides heat, nutrients, oxygenation, and/or osmoregulation, as well as protection from predators to the developing embryos and hatched young. (Goncalves, I.B. (2018). Brooding. In: Vonk, J., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_1990-1)
A thermogenic form of adipose tissue composed of brown adipocytes. It is found in newborns of many species including humans, and in hibernating mammals. Brown fat is richly vascularized, innervated, and densely packed with mitochondria which can generate heat directly from the stored lipids. (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/cgi/mesh/2012/MB_cgi?mode=&index=1914&field=all&HM=&II=&PA=&form=&input=)
A pack animal is a domesticated working animal used by humans as means of transporting materials by attaching them so their weight bears on the animal's back, in contrast to draught animals which pull loads but do not carry them. (Adapted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pack_animal)
These are rights to use the land for agriculture, grazing, gathering of forestry products, etc. The right to use land is one of the essential rights of landownership, but may also be the right to use and profit from immovable property as if the user were the owner (usufruct). (FAO Land Tenure Manuals, No.2, FAO, 2006)
Bryologists are people who have an active interest in observing, recording, classifying or researching bryophytes. (Wikipedia, 2024. Bryology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryology)
The blackberry is an edible fruit produced by many species in the genus Rubus in the family Rosaceae, hybrids among these species within the subgenus Rubus, and hybrids between the subgenera Rubus and Idaeobatus. (Wikipedia, 2024. Blackberry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackberry)
A minor cereal cultivated primarily in northern regions. Buckwheat is considered a cereal, although it does not belong to the gramineous family but to the Polygonaceae family. (FAOTERM)
A compressor is a mechanical device that increases the pressure of a gas by reducing its volume. An air compressor is a specific type of gas compressor. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressor)
