(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.
Capybara
Definition:
(n.) A large South American rodent (Hydrochaerus capybara) Living on the margins of lakes and rivers. It is the largest extant rodent, being about three feet long, and half that in height. It somewhat resembles the Guinea pig, to which it is related; -- called also cabiai and water hog.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study we describe the adult parasites and the microfilaria of the "Cruorifilaria tuberocauda" (Nematoda, Filarioidea), Eberhard, Morales & Orihel (1976) obtained from the arteries of the kidney of two capybaras from Apure and Barinas states of Venezuela.
(2) The accessory olfactory formation among mammals also exhibits variation in the compactness of the large perikarya: a broadband in most but a compact layer in a few others such as the chinchilla and the capybara.
(3) Somatic sensory, auditory and visual areas of cerebral neocortex were mapped in anesthetized capybaras using surface macroelectrode-evoked potential recording methods.
(4) Infection without neoplastic transformation also was obtained in pigs, rhesus monkeys, chimpanzees, and rabbits, and was observed in capybaras and water buffaloes.
(5) In this study we describe briefly the adult parasites and, the microfilaria of the species "Dipetalonema (Alafilaria) hydrochoerus" which were isolated from skin nips and we have found that the capybara "Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris" is parasitized in a proportion of 80% in the 16 animals studied.
(6) With silhouetted palms at sunset, capybaras bathing in streams, vivid birdlife and viscachas (a type of chinchilla) snuffling around the site at dusk, it’s a photographers’ paradise.
(7) The response of the chymotrypsins was more variable and those of capybara and rabbit showed extreme sensitivity.
(8) from the capybara Hydrochaerus hydrochaerus in South America; Frenkelia sp.
(9) Infection without neoplastic transformation was also obtained in pigs, rhesus monkeys, chimpanzees, rabbits and observed in capybaras and water-buffaloes.
(10) The representation of the perioral skin in SI cortex was relatively large in capybaras and guinea pigs.
(11) Even though a severe tissue response is seen in the walls of the blood vessels occupied by the adult worms, it appears to be a common parasite in the population of capybaras surveyed.
(12) In 2009, a staffer was suspended for two days without pay after a capybara – the world’s largest rodent – was crushed to death in a hydraulic door , while in 2007 a six-year-old hippo died less than 24 hours after being transferred from the Denver Zoo as part of an international breeding program.
(13) Phil Harrison spoke about Microsoft's record with independent games, but then showed just two of note: Minecraft , which hardly counts any more due to its profound global success, and the intriguing Below , a new "roguelike" RPG hackathon from Sword and Sworcery developer Capybara.
(14) Infection without neoplastic transformation has also been demonstrated in pigs, rhesus monkeys, chimpanzees and rabbits and observed in capybaras and water buffaloes.
(15) On the bank was a family of capybaras, the world's largest rodent, dog-sized and shaggy-haired, with a funny rectangular-shaped head.
(16) Trypanosoma evansi was seen in blood samples taken randomly from both wild and semi-captive capybaras caught in Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil and in sick dogs brought into local veterinary clinics.
(17) Rumen ophryoscolecid protozoa were observed in feces obtained from two capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) housed at the Columbus Zoo, Columbus, Ohio.
(18) Four filariae are known to parasitize the capybara "Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris" namely the "Cruorifilaria tuberocauda", Eberhard, Morales & Orihel, 1976; the "Dipetalonema (Alafilaria) hydrochoerus", Yates & Jorgenson, 1983, and "Mansonella longicapita" and "Mansonella rotundicapita [corrected]", Eberhard, Campo-Aasen & Orihel, 1983.
(19) Species affected included a range of primates and birds, a rodent (Capybara) and a carnivore (Caracal Lynx).
(20) On the way we spotted an armadillo, peccaries, a tarantula, more capybaras and tall, flightless rheas.