lollipop

An item of confectionery consisting of a piece of candy or sweet attached to a stick.

Something having the shape of a lollipop: a linear stem connected to a round body.

The gene III proteins appear as five lollipops protruding from the end of the phage, and these “balls” can be removed by treatment of the phage with subtilisin, rendering the phage noninfectious.

The reasons for this containment of gated communities and private streets are not to be sought in morphology (suburban residential developments with lollipops and dead ends are common in France), but rather in local practices by residents.

A sign on a stick held in front of the vehicle during a pit stop.

To prune the lower branches of a tree or other plant so that new growth appears only at the top, where more light is received.