(a.) Pertaining to water; growing in water; living in, swimming in, or frequenting the margins of waters; as, aquatic plants and fowls.
(n.) An aquatic animal or plant.
(n.) Sports or exercises practiced in or on the water.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a number of bacteriological drinking water analyses, this property was confirmed insofar as aquatic myxobacteria could regularly be demonstrated when inspecting hygienically deficient wells or springs.
(2) While the combined O2 uptake changed by a factor of 2, within the weight range under study, the aquatic O2 uptake changed 8-fold within the same range.
(3) Heavy metals are well known pollutants in the aquatic environment.
(4) In contrast to widespread distribution of PCBs in the environment, PCT residues were seldom found in samples from aquatic environments such as water and sludge and waterfowl and fish, and, if found, the levels of PCTs were so low as to be practically negligible.
(5) Neither the stock cultures nor the aquatic strains were capable of growth in autoclaved river water taken above the sewage outfall at the three temperatures tested.
(6) Hydrotherapy is based on several important bioengineering principles that permit the design and development of aquatic exercise devices, techniques and programs.
(7) Using zoospore capture technique, 361 colonies of aquatic freshwater fungi were recovered from sewage effluents, out of which 341 reached sexual maturity.
(8) Based on this concern, the objectives of this study were to: (1) compile, review, and synthesize literature on the fate, persistence, and environmental concentrations of DFB in both freshwater and saltwater environments; (2) compile, review, and synthesize acute and chronic aquatic toxicity data on DFB effects on freshwater and saltwater organisms; (3) assess possible risk to aquatic biota associated with the use of this insecticide in one specific area (Maryland); and (4) recommend future research based on the data gaps identified from this study.
(9) Monthly mean concentrations of dieldrin in river water and most aquatic organisms were highest in June and July, soon after aldrin had been applied to corn land in the watershed.
(10) Thus, the fern bioassay may be an inexpensive means of detecting both chronic low dose and episodic high dose inputs of mutagenic pollutants into aquatic ecosystems.
(11) Concentration factors of strontium-90 in aquatic organisms and substrates are higher in a dystrophic lake than in the other types.
(12) A minimal kinetic scheme is derived, in which a transient monodentate DNA-platinum(II) adduct is formed in a bimolecular reaction between DNA and aquated platinum(II) compounds.
(13) The substances released by algae in the profundal are taken up by aquatic bacteria which explains the lower release and PER measured.
(14) Eggs contained first-stage larvae in 23-26 days at 25 C. Seven species of aquatic oligochaetes were exposed experimentally to eggs of E. tubifex containing first-stage larvae.
(15) A gas-liquid chromatographic (GLC) method is described for determining residues of Bayer 73 (2-aminoethanol salt of 2',5-dichloro-4'-nitrosalicylanilide) in fish muscle, aquatic invertebrates, mud, and water by analyzing for 2-chloro-4-nitroaniline (CNA), a hydrolysis product of Bayer 73.
(16) The oral communications and posters were divided into five subsections, covering systematics at supraspecific, specific and subspecific levels, evolution, and life cycles of parasites with hosts in both aquatic and terrestrial environments.
(17) Their stabilities were studied in water and the influence of chloride anions, pH, temperature and time was discussed and rate constants of the aquation reactions at different conditions were calculated.
(18) Since sediments from the habitats occupied by the fish in this study have been shown to contain multiple hepatocarcinogens, the findings strengthen cumulative evidence that English sole are useful as indicators of exposure to hepatocarcinogens in aquatic environments.
(19) Aquatic plants are notoriously difficult to study systematically due to convergent evolution and reductionary processes that result in confusing arrays of morphological features.
(20) Tryptic peptide comparisons of 125I-labeled virion proteins showed that five viruses are different from each other, although there was considerable overlap in the peptide maps of the three aquatic viruses, indicting a degree of relatedness.
Beaver
Definition:
(n.) An amphibious rodent, of the genus Castor.
(n.) The fur of the beaver.
(n.) A hat, formerly made of the fur of the beaver, but now usually of silk.
(n.) Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woolen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
(n.) That piece of armor which protected the lower part of the face, whether forming a part of the helmet or fixed to the breastplate. It was so constructed (with joints or otherwise) that the wearer could raise or lower it to eat and drink.
Example Sentences:
(1) Discussions were analyzed using the Hill Interaction Matrix and modified Beavers-Timberlawn Family Evaluation Scales.
(2) The report said beavers could improve fish stocks and their dams could help prevent flooding by slowing down the flow of water from high ground.
(3) But farmers and landowners have expressed concern about the impact of the species on rural businesses after reports of "significant impacts on agricultural land" in areas of Tayside where a colony of around 150 beavers has become established .
(4) The beavers have felled most of the bankside birch, sycamore and other trees they like to eat and use for their dams.
(5) On Wednesday it was reported that a beaver on the river had given birth to three young.
(6) Studies have been made on the peroxidase activity of metmyoglobins in animals from various ecological groups--the horse Equus caballus, cattle Bos taurus, beaver Castor fiber, otter Lutra lutra, mink Mustela vison and dog Canis familiaris.
(7) Scotland’s powerful salmon fishery and farming lobbies have repeatedly resisted or criticised beaver reintroductions, including blocking a plan for a second official release scheme at Insh Marshes national nature reserve near Kingussie in the Cairngorms – only 35 miles north of Loch Rannoch.
(8) The relationships of retinal drusen, retinal pigmentary abnormalities, and macular degeneration to age and sex were studied in 4926 people between the ages of 43 and 86 years who participated in the Beaver Dam Eye Study.
(9) At least two centuries after the species was hunted to extinction in the UK, three beaver families have been released into three lochs in forest unpopulated by people near the Sound of Jura in Argyll.
(10) FoE claimed all this was “a significant shift from the government’s previous position which stated that the beavers could not be allowed to remain and should be removed.” Alasdair Cameron, an FoE campaigner, said: “We’re delighted that the government appears to be listening to local people who want these beavers to swim freely in their rivers.
(11) In England, beavers are back on the river Otter , and otters on the river Trent.
(12) We had two objectives in this study: 1) to determine if patients who might benefit from exercise training could be selected based on resting respiratory function measurements; 2) to determine if the work rate at which the metabolic acidosis starts to develop could be reliably determined, non-invasively, by a simple modification of the recently described V-slope method of Beaver et al.
(13) A new pair of beavers has been released into a river in Devon to boost the genetic diversity of England’s only wild population of the mammals.
(14) On the thigh of an Europa Beaver, Castor fiber L., dead after 8 years of captivity, a candidiasis has been found due to Candida albicans.
(15) The prevalence of Giardia infection in juvenile and adult live-trapped muskrats was similar (92.5 and 94.4%, respectively), but the prevalence in juvenile live-trapped beavers (23.2%) was significantly greater than that seen in the adult animals (12.6%).
(16) It was in a bar at the LSE called [cue dramatic pause]… the Beaver's Retreat."
(17) MisterRed 07 May 2014 6:46pm Leeds: LSD and a couple of E's 77E112E1240H 07 May 2014 8:34pm Rotterdam - Bring Your Own Beaver.
(18) Dairy farmer Dave Lawrence took the Guardian to the spot where the beavers are usually seen, close to an island in the river thick with nettles, willow and thistles.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Come spring otters will hunt the vulnerable baby beaver kits.
(20) Historically it was one of the first areas of western Canada visited by European explorers, travelling over the Methye Portage to reach the Clearwater and Athabasca rivers, rich sources of the furs that were shipped back to England to feed the demand for beaver hats – the first resource exploitation.