(a.) Pertaining to or resembling an Amazon; of masculine manners; warlike.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the river Amazon in South America, or to its valley.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Amazonian super heroine was dropped from the role less than two months later.
(2) Yet whatever Jürgen Klinsmann’s understandable wariness about Portugal as a wounded animal, the USA coach might prefer to take his chances against a less-than-100% Ronaldo in the testing, Amazonian conditions in Manaus, no matter how good he is.
(3) So on the menu at DOM are some weird and wonderful Amazonian foods.
(4) The low population densities and impermanent settlements of Amazonian Indians are often interpreted as adaptations to a fauna that offers limited protein resources and is rapidly depleted by hunting.
(5) Lobomycosis is a rare disease occurring with predilection in the Amazonian region.
(6) Simultaneously, several Amazonian politicians, among them Blairo Maggi, one of the world's leading soy producers, mounted a lobby to overthrow measures that banned banks from loaning money to fund projects in areas of illegal deforestation.
(7) In Amazonian Peru and Ecuador leaf decoctions of the rainforest holly Ilex guayusa with high caffeine concentrations are used as a morning stimulant.
(8) During his work in a jungle hospital of the Amazonian part of Peru, the author was able to study the health care delivery system in the area.
(9) I sympathise a little with Hunt – he was born into military aristocracy, a cousin of the Queen, went to Charterhouse, then Oxford, then into PR: trying to get him to understand the life of an overworked student nurse is like trying to get an Amazonian tree frog to understand the plot of Blade Runner.
(10) Also, new ecological situations must be foreseen, such as the expansion of agricultural frontier, rupture of the Amazonian barrier, etc.
(11) An epidemiological survey of tegumentary leishmaniasis (Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis) was carried out in three regions of Bolivia in the Andean foothill and Amazonian forest.
(12) (Iridaceae), collected in the Amazonian jungle and grown in Italy, were tested for biological properties.
(13) Insect bite … raw Amazonian ants as served at DOM.
(14) The area lies close to the meeting place of the Amazonian forest (the hylaea) and the cerrado (savanna) formation of Central Brazil.
(15) And then, back down into the flower she went with Pitbull, leaving the pitch to the Amazonian dancers, the raindrops, trees and footballs, who humbly marched off.
(16) We work with our partners and collaborators, like the National Organization of Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Women of Peru , to intervene through research, convenings and international networking opportunities, technical assistance, and communications support.
(17) The study, which is a summary drawing from more than 200 existing papers on Amazonian climate and forest science, is intended as a wake-up call.
(18) There is no price tag on that yet, but it has clear economic significance for Amazonian agricultural production, electricity generation and industry that generates over US$1 trillion a year.
(19) The amazonian region of Ecuador is the site of a powerful migratory influx for colonizing new lands.
(20) The article doesn’t describe the Amazon I know or the caring Amazonians I work with every day,” he said in an email to staff .
Athletic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to athletes or to the exercises practiced by them; as, athletic games or sports.
(1) Compared with conservative management, better long-term success (determined by return of athletic soundness and less evidence of degenerative joint disease) was achieved with surgical curettage of elbow subchondral cystic lesions.
(2) In a comparative study 11 athletes and 11 untrained students were investigated at rest, of these 6 trained and 5 untrained individuals during exercise as well.
(3) During recovery, while the heart rate decreased and the RR interval variance increased, there was a relative increase in LF and a relative decrease in HF in normal subjects (either sedentary or athletic).
(4) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
(5) "He's defined by being himself, by being smart, by being a good athlete," Goldwater said of Keller.
(6) "They haven't just got to be able to run like athletes," says Hall.
(7) #Tigers #Athletics @HunterFelt October 11, 2013 David Lengel (@LengelDavid) @HunterFelt Unless you're Yoenis Cespedes of course!
(8) The brightly lit ice palaces themselves are stunning, inside and out, and the sporting facilities have been rightly praised by almost all the athletes.
(9) However, the mean serum EPO concentrations of male and female athletes engaged in a variety of sports were not different from those of sedentary control subjects of both sexes (26.5-35.3 U.ml-1).
(10) Sudden death in healthy athletes is uncommon but, when it occurs, the primary mechanism is cardiovascular.
(11) Thus many athletes sustain dental-related injuries resulting in deformity and discomfort which may persist throughout their lives.
(12) He is big, strong, athletic, very quick and has got a fantastic leap on him," said McClaren.
(13) The increased volume of flowing blood and increased stroke volume in athletes probably allows for a reduction in flow velocity and thereby a reduction in kinetic energy.
(14) In Iten, I heard stories of athletes being told weeks in advance when to attend the testing centre in Eldoret.
(15) Many athletes, particularly female, are iron depleted, but true iron deficiencies are rare.
(16) Maximal power output was on average 81.1 W for the male population and varied from 65.8 W for class II athletes to 92.2 W for class LA.
(17) These results indicate that the increase in glucose storage by acute exercise is not systematically associated with an improved glucose homeostasis, suggesting that other adaptive mechanisms also contribute to the improvement of insulin sensitivity in endurance athletes.
(18) An echocardiographic evaluation of 77 members of a championship childhood swim team showed dimensional variations from normal in most athletes.
(19) Ballet dancers generated significantly less mechanical power than indoor soccer, basketball and bobsled athletes, while wrestlers generated significantly less power than indoor soccer and basketball athletes (all p less than 0.05).
(20) (GL) and M. deltoideus (D) were studied in 89 athletes practising 11 different sport events.