(n.) A species of very large rat (Mus giganteus), found in India and Ceylon. It does much injury to rice fields and gardens.
(n.) A ratlike marsupial animal (genus Perameles) of several species, found in Australia and Tasmania.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although bandicoots in Queensland mate throughout the year, the majority of births occur in late winter and spring.
(2) Non-secretory cells lining the ducts of Bowman's gland in the olfactory epithelium of the bandicoot (Isoodon macrourus) are united below the duct lumen by an unusually well-organized series of desmosomes linked by conspicuous fibrillar bundles with long mitochondria aligned close to the bundles.
(3) The cellular localization of oxytocin and mesotocin within the testis and prostate of the Northern brown bandicoot, Isoodon macrourus, was examined.
(4) Clinical signs, necropsy findings and histopathological changes are summarized for 43 macropods, two common wombats, two koalas, six possums, 15 dasyurids, two numbats, eight bandicoots and one bilby.
(5) Thus we have re-examined this singular chorioallantoic placenta of the bandicoot in plastic sections with light and electron microscopy.
(6) Immunoreactive mesotocin cells were also found in both hypothalamic nuclei of the possum but not of the bandicoot.
(7) In Malaysia, Sarcocystis cysts have been reported from many domestic and wild animals, including domestic and field rats, moonrats, bandicoots, slow loris, buffalo, and monkey, and man.
(8) In the bandicoot, they consisted of a nerve terminal which had one to three branches.
(9) Immunoreactive cells were also seen in Brunner's glands: 5 types in the parma wallaby; 3 types in the great grey kangaroo and tiger cat; 2 types in the koala and common wombat; 1 type in the short-nosed bandicoot.
(10) Mitotic activity in ovarian follicles was studied in relation to the size of the follicles during a 24-hour period (10.00, 16.00, 22.00 and 04.00 h) throughout the estrous cycle of the wild bandicoot rat (Bandicota bengalensis) to ascertain the cell proliferation rate and its 24-hour rhythm in the follicular tissue.
(11) The tick has one generation per year and the adult female, which causes almost all paralysis, is abundant in spring and early summer and occurs most commonly in overgrown or regrowth country where bandicoots are abundant.
(12) These animals, together with 6 control bandicoots were housed in large outside enclosures with mature males.
(13) By use of a barometric technique, tidal volume (VT), minute volume (VE), respiratory frequency (f), and respiratory evaporative heat loss (Eex) were measured from conscious unrestrained potoroos (Potorous tridactylus), barred bandicoots (Perameles gunnii), and New Zealand white rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) at temperatures in and above the thermoneutral zone (TNZ).
(14) A species of Hepatozoon was discovered in the New Guinea spiny bandicoot (Echymipera kalubu), trypanosome infections were found in three genera of rodent hosts and the prevalence of a rickettsial parasite of the genus Grahamella was recorded in rodents from the genera Rattus and Melomys.
(15) The distribution and behavior of the long and the short-nosed bandicoots are reviewed.
(16) Mesotocin was not present in the testes of the bandicoot.
(17) To ascertain whether this seasonality in mating is manifest in the male reproductive system; body weight, testes size, and plasma testosterone concentration were examined in eight bandicoots throughout the year.
(18) Single isolates from tissues of a bilby (Macrotis lagotis), black rat (Rattus rattus), brown snake (Pseudechis australis) and a bandicoot (Isoodon macrouris) were classified as serotypes 4, 4, 7, and 10 respectively.
(19) These results would suggest that photoperiod, which is known to influence melatonin concentrations, may be a factor in the initiation of births in the bandicoot.
(20) Continued grazing by increasingly large numbers of sheep and cattle ultimately and critically removed the shelter and, therefore, eliminated the bandicoots and wallabies.
Philander
Definition:
(v. i.) To make love to women; to play the male flirt.
(n.) A lover.
(n.) A South American opossum (Didelphys philander).
(n.) An Australian bandicoot (Perameles lagotis).
Example Sentences:
(1) Click here to view In The Other Woman, Cameron Diaz , Leslie Mann and Kate Upton team up to declare an all-out, scorched-earth War Of The Scorned Blondes against philandering husband Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
(2) Must he go philandering, or must he go on writing sexist plays?
(3) But here are our friends, shouting along with the soap script, playing their parts as the vindictive husband, the philandering wife.
(4) He's 27 today, and shares his birthday with [frantic googling] Stuart Broad, Vernon Philander, the dude who played RoboCop, fellow football genius Kevin Nolan.
(5) The neurohypophyseal hormones of two South American opossums (Didelphis marsupialis and Philander opossum) were isolated by molecular sieving and preparative high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC).
(6) In May, the prime minister was more exercised by the flouting of privacy injunctions on Twitter, saying that the law should be reviewed to "catch up with how people consume media today" because it was unfair that newspapers were unable to identify philandering celebrities such as Ryan Giggs, who had taken out an injunction, when their identity was freely circulating on Twitter .
(7) He always denied knowing about Kennedy’s extensive philandering, even though Kennedy’s mistress at his death, Mary Pinchot Meyer, was Bradlee’s sister-in-law.
(8) Maria Sharapova under pressure over meldonium use as sponsors flee Read more Her admission that she had failed a drug test at this year’s Australian Open wasn’t quite in the class of Tiger Woods’s 2010 confession of serial philandering, one of the clumsiest attempts to deliberately confuse guilt and innocence seen outside the precincts of a courtroom.
(9) That, he adds, may be good news for the likes of Wayne Rooney and his fellow England players who have been hit by allegations of philandering in recent weeks.
(10) But I can't help speculating about his fascination with the ruthless libertine, especially since the cast of Amour includes an operatic baritone who was once a notable Don Giovanni: William Shimell plays Huppert's husband, a philandering musician.
(11) A multilamellate body (MLB), bearing close resemblance to an array of annulate lamellae, has been observed in several adenohypophysial cell types of the teleost, Hemihaplochromis philander.
(12) In contrast with Breaking Bad's murderous drug kingpin and Mad Men's philandering ad executive, Woodhull is a good man who, in 1778, becomes a spy in order to help George Washington defeat the dastardly British redcoats.
(13) "There is now a disproportionate amount of meretricious material aimed at appealing to public prurience, most of which revolves around the philandering of celebrities," he argues.
(14) The strain was isolated from one gray "four-eyed" opossum (Philander opossum).
(15) Some of those who backed George Osborne before the chancellor knowingly burned what remained of his ambitions by publishing that fantasy Brexit punishment budget will now back her, as will some Tory women worried that female voters distrust the philandering Johnson.
(16) He was philandering on a grand scale, oblivious to the hurt he might be causing those close to him.
(17) Bring back the crime of the week What happened to the philandering senators?
(18) He maintained that claims of his philandering were ill-founded, but his lifestyle certainly encompassed heavy drinking and smoking more than 50 cigarettes a day, at least until he underwent heart bypass surgery in 1993.
(19) Iso-enzyme characterization of 22 stocks isolated (16 from D. marsupialis, 3 from Philander opossum and 3 from Rhodnius prolixus) revealed that they were all related to zymodeme 1 of Miles.
(20) Donald ("Call me Don") Draper, Hamm's philandering, shifting, amoral yet tortured, martini-drinking, fag-smoking antihero has become shorthand for the Mad Men phenomenon.