(a.) Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned.
(a.) Having a slender, sharp, or spinelike tip.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hybridization analyses of selected lines revealed that genes influencing aristal branching are located on both the X chromosome and the autosomes.
(2) A small sensory ganglion, from which arises the aristal nerve, is located proximally in the shaft.
(3) Selection was successful and resulted in two lines differing by an average of six aristal branches.
(4) These thermoreceptors are often coupled with hygroreceptors; however, we can only speculate whether the second dendrite of the aristal organ also has this function.
(5) It is concluded that the number of aristal branches in Drosophila is a neutral trait (i.e., not subject to natural selection) under laboratory conditions.
(6) Polygenic control of aristal morphology is indicated by a gradual response to selection and low realized heritabilities.
(7) Barrier was found to be related to aristic, expressive creativity which seems to be related to interest in human interactions, but unrelated to creativity associated with scientific endeavors and unrelated to creative receptivity (i.e., purest adaptive regression).
(8) Two populations of D. melanogaster were selected for increased and decreased numbers of major aristal branches.
(9) They lie in the center of the disc and correspond to the neurons of the adult aristal sensillum.
(10) The fine structure of the aristal sensory organ was studied in detail in the fruitfly (Drosophila) and for comparison in the housefly (Musca) and the blowfly (Calliphora).
(11) It is generally adopted that the homoeotic gene proboscipedia causes the transformation of the distal parts of proboscis into corresponding tarsal or antennal (aristal) segments.
(12) Correlations between aristal morphology and behavior found in other selection experiments by previous investigators were likely due to linkage disequilibria.
(13) The transformation of oral lobes of proboscic into the leg is most conspicuous at 29 degrees C, while at 16 degrees C the substitution of tarsal structures by aristal ones is observed more frequently.
(14) Shifts down yielded leg tissue at the aristal base, which retreated with later shifts.
(15) Sometimes the distal parts of the homoeotic leg (segments of tarsus, claws) can coexist with or be substituted for by the aristal filaments.
(16) This suggests that neither larval leg neurons nor early aristal neurons are essential for the outgrowth of subsequent afferents.
(17) In Drosophila, the aristal sense organ consists of 3 identical sensilla that terminate in the hemolymph space of the aristal shaft, and not in an external cuticular apparatus.
(18) The aristal sense organs in Musca and Calliphora are similar to those in Drosophila, but contain more sensilla (12 in Musca, 18 in Calliphora.
(19) When selection was relaxed for 19 generations, the number of aristal branches did not revert to the number in the control line.
(20) Changes in aristal branching did not appear to have a consistent influence on geotaxis, although there was a tendency for flies with fewer aristal branches to be geonegative.
Beard
Definition:
(n.) The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.
(n.) The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat.
(n.) The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds
(n.) The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
(n.) The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle.
(n.) The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster.
(n.) In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
(n.) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain.
(n.) A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
(n.) That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
(n.) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
(n.) An imposition; a trick.
(v. t.) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
(v. t.) To oppose to the gills; to set at defiance.
(v. t.) To deprive of the gills; -- used only of oysters and similar shellfish.
Example Sentences:
(1) While the papers in this country and the New Yorker were crowing about how Beard had, through her own gutsy initiative, tamed her trolls, another woman – Anita Sarkeesian, a Canadian-American journalist – was being trolled.
(2) I've seen DJs in clubs with beards that make them look more like Charles Manson on a scruffy day than the cutting edge of cool, but, apparently, the two are synonymous these days.
(3) With the help of yellow contact lenses, a false beard, nose and teeth, he has taken on the demeanour of a feral animal.
(4) Koji Uehara, the one without a beard, just picked up from where he left off in the regular season, and continued to destroy opponents.
(5) It's hard to imagine a more masculine character than Thor, who is based on the god of thunder of Norse myth: he's the strapping, hammer-wielding son of Odin who, more often than not, sports a beard and likes nothing better than smacking frost giants.
(6) Academic and TV historian Mary Beard has disclosed her innovative approach to dealing with her vitriolic Twitter trolls – writing them a job reference.
(7) And in a broader sense, the sort of Conservatives who think intelligently and strategically – and there are more of them than you think – fret that a bearded 66-year-old socialist has ignited political debate in a way that absolutely nobody in the mainstream predicted.
(8) Some of them are foreign, they have long beards and we don't want to go near them.
(9) In his passport photograph, applied for in June 2008, Brown has grown a beard and his temples have gone grey.
(10) As the sun rises over the precipitous streets of SanFrancisco's North Beach, just before 7am, there is a truly wonderful scene: corporation men spray the sidewalk while a gathering of bearded folk sip espressos at Caffe Trieste on the corner of Vallejo and Grant streets.
(11) Taylor, a sixty-something man with a neatly trimmed beard and a palpable pride in his business, has made "a couple of small sales" so far today, but footfall in the town is pretty underwhelming, and, in the market, almost non-existent.
(12) His beard, axillary hair and pubic hair were all normal.
(13) I do need a haircut, but I have had beards for many years.
(14) Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had grown a beard in the eight days before he carried out the attack and told friends “the significance of the beard is religious”, prosecutor François Molins told a press conference.
(15) Reading East's Rob Wilson attacked a whingeing bearded lefty, the archbishop of Canterbury.
(16) "Shave your beard if you're brown, and you best salute the crown, or they'll do you like Brazilians and shoot your arse down."
(17) Cue start of the second half, and he's back on, beard and all."
(18) The local undertakers were pleased to discover the great Henty to be the man they had always imagined - a full-bearded giant, stern and wise, dressed like a warrior hero or - much the same thing - a Victorian gentleman with the whiff of gunpowder and the clash of sabres about him.
(19) After weeks of unwashed silence he's finally dismantled his crisis-beard and returned his woollen catastrophe-hat to the BBC's Break In Case Of Homelessness box.
(20) Outside, there’s no sign of life except one bearded oaf on a chopper and a kid at the back door, holding a picture of Hot Fuss-era Brandon Flowers , praying for a brief encounter.