Category: W
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Wetting solution
A solution placed upon a contact lens before the lens is inserted onto the eye, in order to permit tears to spread over the entire lens surface and to provide lubrication.
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Whole grains
Grains that have not been refined or processed in a way that leads to a reduction in their nutritional content. An entire kernel of grain, consisting of the bran, the endosperm, and the germ.
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Wide-tooth comb
A great styling aid for all hair types, but especially curly textures. Use it to comb hair after applying styling product for even distribution.
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Wet set
Rollers put into wet hair and left in for an extended period of time even overnight to create the longest-lasting kind of roller-set.
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Weft
Loose strands of synthetic hair braided into your natural hair to add length and/or color. Long strips of human or artificial hair with a threaded edge.
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Weave
A separate hairpiece sewn or glued along a “track” to add length and/or color.
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Weaning
The gradual transition from breast milk to other liquid and solid foods, which could constitute a danger point in nutritional terms. The process of gradually substituting solid foods for breastfeeding or bottle feeding with formula. The gradual transition from getting nourishment from the breast or bottle to drinking from a cup. There is no right…
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Woodland garden
A garden established beneath trees (usually deciduous) in partial shade or even quite deep shade. It suits plants that require shelter and humidity and whose roots need to remain undisturbed.
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Wood
A feature of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs, being the tissue laid down inside the bark cylinder by the dividing cells of the cambium layer. It consists largely of a cellulose framework with the denser carbohydrate lignin deposited in the cell walls. The living outer part (sapwood) is the main tissue by which water and dissolved…
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White fly
Very small, winged, sap-sucking insects of the family Aleyrodidae, which belongs to the same order of insects as the aphids. They settle on some cultivated plants, for example, cabbages, in large numbers and affect their health. White flies are a particularly bad pest of greenhouse and indoor plants, but are fairly easily controlled by spraying.…