(n.) A city of Asia Minor (or Anatolia) which has given its name to a goat, a cat, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The majority of Angora goats in the United States are in Texas, although several other states have significant populations.
(2) Despite physiological differences, acidified milk replacer can be used successfully to raise Angora kids.
(3) The animals were of various breeds including Angora, New Zealand feral, Angora x feral, Saanen and Toggenburg.
(4) Mineral requirements and plant toxicities may vary between regions where Angora goats are raised.
(5) In the first of two experiments, four wether lambs (BW = 26.8 kg) and four wether Angora goats (BW = 31.7 kg) were used in two simultaneous 4 x 4 Latin squares to study the influence of condensed tannins (CT) on nutrient usage and concentrations of serum urea N, somatotropin (GH), and insulin (INS) when the animals were fed low-quality diets containing mountain mahogany (MM; Cercocarpus montanus) leaves.
(6) Adult ixodid ticks were collected at 2-weekly intervals for a period of 23 consecutive months from 15 to 20 Angora goats on a farm in the south western Orange Free State.
(7) Faecal egg counts and serum prolactin concentrations in 13 pregnant and five non-pregnant Angora goats were monitored over a period of 20 weeks.
(8) Helminth parasites were collected from 13 grysbok, Raphicerus melanotis, 12 common duikers, Sylvicapra grimmia, 24 Angora goats and 24 Boer goats killed on a farm in Valley Bushveld in the eastern Cape Province.
(9) Because of the high protein requirement, the marginal dietary protein in many Angora diets, and the traditional raising of Angoras in arid regions where browsing of plants off the ground is typical, Angoras in wet regions that are forced to graze seem to be especially susceptible to internal parasitism with Haemonchus contortus.
(10) Young and adult Angora goats were exposed to infestation during two paralysis tick seasons.
(11) These results suggest that artificial insemination may be utilized to improve reproductive performance in French Angora rabbits.
(12) Natural bluetongue infection has not been observed in Angora or dairy goats.
(13) In Angora goats three different phenotypes have been recognized: F, S, and FS.
(14) In the eastern Cape Province every helmeted guinea fowl (Numida meleagris), scrub hare (Lepus saxatilis) and kudu from the Andries Vosloo Kudu Reserve; all but 1 of the 22 domestic cattle examined on the farm "Bucklands"; and all Angora goats plus nearly all Boer goats examined on the farm "Brakhill" were infested with this tick.
(15) Eight castrated male Angora goats were used in a repeated, simultaneous 4 x 4 Latin square designed experiment to evaluate metabolic and mohair responses of Angora goats to sulfate supplementation.
(16) Angora kids were blocked by birth weight and sex and assigned randomly to goat milk or acidified milk replacer.
(17) Angora goat farmers experienced the same, but with higher mortalities, probably due to the apparently high susceptibility of Angora goats to heartwater.
(18) GCC was found only in Australian Angora and Cashmere animals.
(19) Coccidiosis can also be a severe problem in young Angoras that are congregated in small areas.
(20) Fresh blood from nine mature non-pregnant angora goats was found to contain a varying proportion of spindle-shaped, fusiform, triangular, pear-shaped, and other bizarre forms of erythrocytes in addition to normal discoid biconcave erythrocytes.
Mohair
Definition:
(n.) The long silky hair or wool of the Angora goat of Asia Minor; also, a fabric made from this material, or an imitation of such fabric.
Example Sentences:
(1) In many patients the following allergens were detected by patch testing: cosmetics, dental pastes, washing powders, chloric water, mohair, synthetics, and flowers.
(2) Ash, nitrogen, phosphorus and zinc concentrations in both bezoars and plant material were similar, but very different to that of mohair; however, the calcium, magnesium, potassium and manganese levels of bezoars were more similar to mohair than plant matter.
(3) The occurrence of a new congenital defect of the appendicular skeleton in Mohair goats is described.
(4) Eight castrated male Angora goats were used in a repeated, simultaneous 4 x 4 Latin square designed experiment to evaluate metabolic and mohair responses of Angora goats to sulfate supplementation.
(5) Mean clean mohair yield and fiber diameter increased by 5.3% (P less than .039) and 2.5% (P less than .067), respectively, with Met administration but were decreased by 9.2% (P less than .033) and 3.8% (P less than .001), respectively, by Lys administration; however, mean fiber length was increased (P less than .014) 21.7% by Lys infusion.
(6) In this work the preparation of DNA from human--as well as from animal hair shafts (alpaca, angora-rabbit, cashmere, cashgora, mohair, merino and yak) is described for the first time.
(7) It's hard to tell through the muzzle he wears and the cage he's confined to, but Caspar has the looks of a vintage mohair jumper and the charm of a pneumatic drill hammering through your nan's heirloom china.
(8) Angora goats have unique nutritional requirements, especially for protein, owing to their selection for mohair production.
(9) Harvey's London debut, Mohair, was a piece about troubled teenagers that he decided to locate in Northern Ireland because, well, he didn't want to give Liverpool a bad name.
(10) Clean mohair weight tended (P less than .08) to be higher in the goats fed diets containing expelled, heat-treated soybean meal.
(11) Instead, Miller recommends a bouncy mohair divan (she pronounces it “dive-in”) in the guest bedroom.
(12) Calculated by regression, the optimum dietary S concentration for maximum clean mohair production was .267% of dietary DM for a N:S ratio of 7.2:1, suggesting that the National Research Council N:S ratio of 10:1 is inadequate for Angora goats.
(13) While that's great news for folks who have, say, an unrequited zombie fetish or a deep desire to see old men swaddled in mohair diapers, the almost entirely unregulated buffet of internet pornography also has a whole host of downsides – one of the most odious being the popular genre of "revenge porn".
(14) The chemical composition of bezoars found in goats and sheep, resembled that of pappus hairs and stems of the Karoo bushes Eriocephalus ericoides and Gnidia polycephala more closely than that of mohair.
(15) Twenty-eight Angora goat doelings (average BW 22.1 kg) were used in a 150-d study to examine the effects of dietary CP level and degradability on mohair fiber production.
(16) The goats did not exhibit increased grease (P greater than .939) and clean (P greater than .477) mohair yields and fiber diameter (P greater than .619) when treated with Met+Lys.
(17) Leopard print dominated from the first look - a below the knee belted coat - and python, mohair and fur were also used.
(18) The protein was isolated from reduced and carboxymethylated mohair by chromatography on DEAE-cellulose phosphate.
(19) Mohair fiber diameter was not affected (P greater than .10) by dietary CP level.
(20) Grease and clean mohair weights were greater (P less than .05) in goats fed the diets containing 19% CP.