(n.) A large carnivorous reptile of the Crocodile family, peculiar to America. It has a shorter and broader snout than the crocodile, and the large teeth of the lower jaw shut into pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in South America.
(n.) Any machine with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator
(n.) a form of squeezer for the puddle ball
(n.) a rock breaker
(n.) a kind of job press, called also alligator press.
Example Sentences:
(1) As he has for the past 35 years, that is where Dr Seski intends to focus his energy and attention.” Also on Tuesday, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh said it was reviewing Seski’s donation of two Nile crocodiles and an American alligator to see if he followed international standards published since the donations were made.
(2) Cholecystokinin and bombesin cells previously reported in the small intestine of the alligator were not detected in this study.
(3) As in the case of other reptiles, particularly the alligator, a limited range of peptide-storing cells was found in the gut of the crocodile.
(4) Maximum-parsimony analyses of the total data set of 67 vertebrate alpha A sequences support the monophyletic origin of alligator, tegu, and birds and favor the grouping of crocodilians and birds as surviving sister groups in the subclass Archosauria.
(5) Blood samples from male alligators collected in North and South Carolina, south Florida, and in south Louisiana in two consecutive breeding seasons were also assayed for testosterone and corticosterone.
(6) Plus, my friends in Baltimore are quite happy for me to maintain my record of backing against them only to be proved wrong.... 9.49pm GMT More on the alligators... Paolo Bandini (@Paolo_Bandini) For what it's worth I've actually had alligator a couple of times this week.
(7) Both animals disposed of free or food-derived amino acids more rapidly than could be accounted for by catabolism alone, but the transient increases in turtle plasma concentrations consisted mostly of essential amino acids, whereas the alligator plasma showed little increase in essential amino acids and considerable rises in four nonessential amino acids, glutamine, glutamic acid, glycine and alanine.
(8) Occasionally, I have been invited to try exotic meats, ostrich say, or kangaroo or alligator.
(9) The synthesis and presumably the mitochondrial import of glutamine synthetase in alligator liver are thus very similar to the same processes in avian liver.
(10) In four such cases, we were able to remove the IUDs from inside the uterine cavity using a small alligator forceps guided by high-resolution ultrasound.
(11) The architecture of the jaw muscles and their tendons of Alligator mississippiensis is described and their function examined by electromyography.
(12) The auditory (cochlear) ganglion cells of the alligator lizard (Gerrhonotus multicarinatus) give rise to two types of peripheral fibers: tectorial fibers, which contact hair cells covered by a tectorial membrane, and free-standing fibers, which contact hair cells without a tectorial membrane.
(13) In common usage, “myth” is at best the word we use to refer to amusingly preposterous urban legends – tales about albino alligators in the Manhattan sewers or the Holy Grail’s hiding place under the floor of a Paris shopping mall.
(14) In teleostei, amphibians and reptiles (except alligator) spongy myocardium is avascular and receives its nutrition from the ventricle.
(15) One hundred and twenty-three alligators ranging in age from six months to over 10 years were captured from five locations in the southeastern United States and sampled for A. hydrophila.
(16) Cowhide and goatskin are used to make Mulberry goods, as well as ostrich leather and alligator skins.
(17) He might throw in some information on the alligator population of Louisiana or what snakes you are likely to find in the wilds of Panama.
(18) Eight alligators were trained to escape heat by traversing an 8-ft runway containing right or left approaches to a water tank.
(19) We obtained cultures from the mouth of ten alligators to characterize their oral flora.
(20) Wall Street traders impressed with his cut-throat tactics prefer the moniker "swamp alligator".
Puffin
Definition:
(n.) An arctic sea bird Fratercula arctica) allied to the auks, and having a short, thick, swollen beak, whence the name; -- called also bottle nose, cockandy, coulterneb, marrot, mormon, pope, and sea parrot.
(n.) The puffball.
(n.) A sort of apple.
Example Sentences:
(1) Inspired by chaos, Floyd would address the crew as often as the camera, would get palpably squiffy as programmes wore on, would indulge in any manner of derring-do (from playing rugby with Welshmen to shooting seals and eating puffins) and would be lovably madcap.
(2) For most assays the values were highest for the puffin.
(3) • Doubles from £117 room-only, Thorsgata 1, Odinstorg Square, +354 511 6200, hotelodinsve.is Icelandair Hotel Reykjavik Marina Facebook Twitter Pinterest It may not be in the heart of downtown but the Reykjavik Marina has a great location by the harbour, close to where the whale- and puffin-watching tour boats depart from.
(4) In July, puffin numbers on the Farne Islands were down 35% in five years.
(5) The first detailed puffin count on the Farnes was in 1969, when the islands had 6,800 pairs.
(6) In May, the National Trust embarked on a census to discover whether puffin numbers had plummeted after a year of extreme weather, and the UK barn owl population was reported to have suffered its worst breeding season for more than 30 years after a run of extreme weather events.
(7) The prevalence of Soldado (SOL) virus and SOL virus antibodies was investigated on immature sea birds and the argasid tick Ornithodoros (Alectorobius) maritimus collected on Puffin Island, North Wales.
(8) He picked out native endangered and beloved species such as the heath fritillary butterfly on Exmoor, the netted carpet moth in Cumbria and puffins on the Farne islands as having done well.
(9) If Kaye Webb, the Puffin editor, was publishing a book, it was good to go, and best get it into your school bag sharpish.
(10) Even so, 37 birds once common in the UK, such as lapwing, puffin and curlew are now close to dying out because of habitat loss, climate change and increasingly intensive farming.
(11) Over-fishing may be playing a part, or the gradual effect of climate change in warming the sea and affecting the small fish and plankton which the puffins eat over the winter."
(12) Biologists have reported plummeting sea bird populations, with falls of a third in numbers of puffins on the Farne islands off the Northumberland coast, and the Isle of May at the Firth of Forth, as well as declines in food sources for mammals and birds, such as sand eels.
(13) There are more than 300 films on its site, which also has cameras on pandas, bison and puffins.
(14) Hallgrímsson grew up in the remote Westman Islands, an archipelago off the southern coast of Iceland that is home to 8 million puffins, 80 volcanoes, and 4,135 people.
(15) MFO activity was measured for adult Leach's storm-petrels (Oceanodroma leucorhoa), guillemot (Uria aalge) and Atlantic puffins (Fratercula arctica).
(16) Questioned about which one UK species they would like to save from extinction, 52% said hedgehogs, ahead of other at-risk species such as the sparrow, puffin, mistle thrush and hairy-footed flower bee .
(17) A carbon furnace atomic absorption procedure is described for the determination of cadmium in the livers and kidneys of puffins, fratercula arctica.
(18) Generally, different contaminants had not co-accumulated in tissues; this was so even for the lipophilic compounds (DDE and PCBs), with the exception of puffin fat.
(19) Melissa Moore, the Marine Conservation Society ’s head of policy, said: “We’re recommending that the final tranche in 2017 includes South Celtic Deep – a site that supports short-beaked common dolphin; Norris to Ryde, which is rich in seagrass meadows; Mud Hole off the north west coast - 35 metres deep and home to rare sea pens - and Compass Rose off the Yorkshire coast, which is an important spawning and nursery ground for herring and lemon sole.” The government is also set to consult on new special areas of conservation for harbour porpoise and special protection areas to protect feeding and bathing areas used by birds, such as spoonbills in Poole Harbour and puffins on the Northumberland coast.
(20) Liver DDE levels in experimental ducks and guillemots were comparable to those reported for seabirds found dead after kills; levels in starved experimental puffins were much higher.