(a.) Having a beach or beaches; formed by a beach or beaches; shingly.
Example Sentences:
(1) While discussion of Croatia as a travel destination usually focuses on the beachy delights of the Dalmatian coast, the country is also home to some of the most spectacular – and, crucially, well-protected – natural environments in Europe, with seemingly limitless opportunities for hiking, camping, climbing, caving, animal-spotting, birdwatching and generally "doing nature" without doing it in.
(2) The tragic case of a couple taking their own lives by jumping off Beachy Head following the death of their young son prompted material from the anti-choice lobby claiming that the campaign for assisted dying was calling for more of the same.
(3) De, N. Hoffman, S. G. Rogers, R. T. Fraley, and R. N. Beachy, 1986, Science 232, 738-743] was able to package some of either mutant viral RNA into TMV-like particles in vivo and resulted in the long-range spread of infection.
(4) De, N. Hoffman, S. G. Rogers, R. T. Fraley, and R. N. Beachy, Science, 232, 738-743, 1986; R. S. Nelson, P. Powell Abel, and R. N. Beachy, Virology 158, 128-132, 1987).
(5) With Tim Hudson, Kris Medlen, Mike Minor, Paul Maholm and Julio Teheran in place the starting pitching is superb – the biggest problem they have is figuring out who goes to the ailing bullpen after Brandon Beachy returns from Tommy John surgery after the break.
(6) A grieving couple jumped from Beachy Head apparently carrying the body of their five-year-old son two days after his death from meningitis, it emerged today.
(7) Then the bulk of the population will soon be foaming with outrage and hatred, and the homeless can all be chased away, and sent off on long marches, perhaps to Beachy Head, where they can consider their options.
(8) • Maps: OS Landranger 198 (Brighton & Lewes) or OS Explorer 123 (Eastbourne & Beachy Head) Manningtree circular, Essex Photograph: Liz Valentine A beautiful walk through Constable country with several opportunities to enjoy good river swimming in the famous Stour.
(9) Starting pitcher Kris Medlen, who won 15 games while putting up a 3.11 ERA last year, is out after right elbow surgery , a huge blow, as is the news that Brandon Beachy , who who emerged in 2012 before also being done in by injury, won’t be back anytime soon.
Leachy
Definition:
(a.) Permitting liquids to pass by percolation; not capable of retaining water; porous; pervious; -- said of gravelly or sandy soils, and the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both groups of goats were infested with small numbers of immature stages of the tortoise tick, Amblyomma marmoreum, and the yellow dog tick, Haemaphysalis leachi.
(2) Psilotrema simillimum has one intermediate host, the mollusk Bithynia leachi.
(3) In spermatocytes of Bithynia leachi and B. tentaculata, synaptonemal complexes with nodules in an achiasmatic meiosis were demonstrated for the first time by means of the spreading technique.
(4) Fourteen tick species were recovered and the seasonal abundance of adult Haemaphysalis leachi and adult Rhipicephalus simus was determined.
(5) The presence of Rickettsia conorii both in Rhipicephalus sanguineus ticks collected in southern France, and in Rhipicephalus simus and Haemaphysalis leachi from Zimbabwe was demonstrated.
(6) Two stocks of large Babesia from dogs originating in France, transmitted by Dermacentor reticulatus, two from North Africa, having Rhipicephalus sanguineus as vector, and one from South Africa, transmitted by Haemaphysalis leachi, were compared in cross-immunity tests in dogs and in the indirect fluorescent antibody test (IFAT).
(7) Strains of Haemaphysalis Leachi, Haemaphysalis silacea and Ixodes pilosus were also tested.
(8) It seems possible that the leachi and spinulosa subgroups have evolved from a complex of species included today in the spinulosa and canestrinii subgroups.
(9) We have now determined in Bursatella leachi plei, an Opisthobranch closely related to A. californica, that the ocular pacemakers are mutually coupled.
(10) The probable intermediate host is a hard tick, Haemaphysalis leachi.
(11) The exact role of dogs and their ticks (Rhipicephalus sanguineus, R. simus and Haemaphysalis leachi) in the epidemiology of human tick-bite fever remains unclear, since dog ticks were seldom found to harbour rickettsia-like organisms and man is not one of their preferred hosts.
(12) The data from the canestrinii group suggest the existence of a relationship between the indica-heinrichi-canestrinii subgroup, spinulosa subgroup and leachi subgroup, because they share many morphological features.
(13) By virtue of the interaction between the pacemakers of B. leachi plei, the period of the ocular rhythm is increased by 1.5 h. In addition, eyes that remain attached to the nervous system show an increase in the sustainability of the free-running rhythm compared with isolated eyes.
(14) Reproductive organs of four botryllid ascidians, Botryllus primigenus, Botryllus schlosseri, Botrylloides violaceus and Botrylloides leachi, were studied histologically.