(v. t.) A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
(v. t.) A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine.
(v. t.) To beat with a heavy mallet.
(v. t.) To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.
(v. t.) Any insect of the order Coleoptera, having four wings, the outer pair being stiff cases for covering the others when they are folded up. See Coleoptera.
(v. i.) To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut.
Example Sentences:
(1) John Hansen, president of the Nebraska Farmers Union, said the landowners his group represents "are obviously not happy" that the beetles are being removed.
(2) But pipeline opponents say that by moving beetles from the Nebraska sandhills and mowing miles of grass where the insects once lived, TransCanada has illegally begun construction on the project.
(3) Permethrin (0.5%) was applied to individual Lutz spruce, Picea x lutzii Little, to protect them from attack by spruce beetles, Dendroctonus rufipennis (Kirby).
(4) This paper is the first published report of vesicular dermatitis due to blister beetles of the family Meloidae in Panamá.
(5) Cutting up carcasses is the simpler of the two techniques but there are circumstances in which beetle digestion would be advantageous.
(6) After removal of a transverse strip of ventral thorax from the beetle, Tenebrio molitor, interaction occurred between epidermis posterior to the mesothoracic leg and that anterior to the metathoracic leg.
(7) The 12 additional arthropod species recorded from the woodland mice consisted of 1 nidicolous beetle, Leptinus orientamericanus; 1 bot, Cuterebra fontinella; 3 fleas, Ctenophthalmus pseudagyrtes, Orchopeas leucopus and Peromyscopsylla scotti; 1 tick, Dermacentor variabilis; 2 mesostigmatid mites, Androlaelaps fahrenholzi and Ornithonyssus bacoti; 3 chiggers, Comatacarus americanus, Euschoengastia peromysci, and Leptotrombidium peromysci; and 1 undescribed pygmephorid mite of the genus Pygmephorus.
(8) A hypertrehalosemic neuropeptide from the corpora cardiac of the two tenebrionid beetle species, Tenebrio molitor and Zophobas rugipes, was purified by high performance liquid chromatography, and its sequence determined by pulsed-liquid phase sequencing employing Edman degradation after deblocking enzymatically the N-terminal pyroglutamate residue.
(9) Shortly after gamma irradiation, flour beetles exhibited a decline in resistance to oxygen toxicity.
(10) He is the Princess Di of the political world …" Or of Margaret Thatcher 's trusty bulldog Bernard Ingham: "Brick-red of face, beetling of brow, seemingly built to withstand hurricanes, Sir Bernard resembled a half-timbered bomb shelter."
(11) One-way deformation tests using sera prepared against known beetle and tabanid spiroplasmas showed each of the above strains to be unique.
(12) Case records of 21 horses with acute illness following ingestion of hay containing dead striped blister beetles (Epicauta spp) were selected for review.
(13) This report reexamines experimentally the problem of competitive indeterminacy in mixed-species populations of the flour beetles, Tribolium confusum and T. castaneum.
(14) Outside, the ancient trees provide a habitat for several rare insect species, including the cobweb beetle, and many bats, such as the noctule, that like to eat them.
(15) However the plants are then attacked by pollen beetles, necessitating a further use of pyrethroids.
(16) The present analysis outlines how the shape of motoneurons which persist through metamorphosis in the beetle Tenebrio molitor is regulated by cellular interactions.
(17) Worse, pests like the berry borer beetle and leaf rust fungus are flourishing as the world warms.
(18) Nesting birds were already protected, as were fenced-off areas for insects – 112 spider and 68 beetle species have been identified at Tempelhof.
(19) In staphyliniformic beetles, as in other Coleoptera, the number of type III and V neurosecretory cells is equal to 4.
(20) Glossopharyngeal nerve stimulation of the bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana, revealed responsiveness to low levels of cantharidin (1.3 x 10(-6) M), providing a first demonstration of neural gustatory sensitivity of an animal to this defensive chemical from blister beetles (Meloidae).
Entomology
Definition:
(n.) That part of zoology which treats of insects.
(n.) A treatise on the science of entomology.
Example Sentences:
(1) An entomological survey was therefore undertaken in September 1973 in 6 areas in the north-west of Nigeria to determine the prevalence of Stegomyia populations in the villages.
(2) What the study shows is that "the spillover for bees is turning into [a] boilover," said University of Illinois entomology professor May Berenbaum, who wasn't part of the study.
(3) The entomology of this parasite is discussed along with the pathologic manifestations of human infestation and a description of the various modes of treatment.
(4) Some arboviruses are highly pathogenic for Men or animals, Arboviruses epidemiological patterns in Madagascar were determined by entomological, serological, and virological surveys.
(5) A one year entomological was carried out the survey in the coastal town of Cotonou to study the urban transmission of malaria.
(6) It follows, from the entomological, parasitological and clinical data, that the transmission is high inside this focus and therefore, it seems necessary to take, all measures in order to eradicate the focus.
(7) Village Jethuli is bound by the river Ganga on the north and separated from neighbouring endemic villages on other three sides by agricultural land, is isolated entomologically (as regards sandflies).
(8) In entomological survey, Anopheles maculatus was collected more than other 10 anopheline species encountered.
(9) The author gives the results of an entomological survey in neo-caledonian archipelago (New Caledonia and Loyalty Islands), november-december 1972.
(10) The entomological method was found statistically more reliable and superior when compared to other prevalent methods.
(11) The CS anti-(NANP)n antibody level and prevalence during a 25-month period paralleled the pattern of seasonal transmission consistent with conventional parasitologic and entomologic measurements.
(12) Method contributes to reliable scientific estimation of postmortem interval on the basis of entomologic studies performed.
(13) There was no apparent reason for this cluster of cases, but geographical, climatic, and entomological studies are being carried out.
(14) Estimates of the entomological inoculation rate (EIR) ranged from 0.00006 to 0.005 in different samples and vectorial capacity (VC) was 0.0005 for the 1990 sample.
(15) This indicates that the introduction of native people into a populated malarious area will increase the percent of gametocyte carriers and may, thereby, increase the entomologic inoculation rate.
(16) In the cattle spaces 478 specimens (7 species) were caught, with use of the light trap--554 specimens (16 species), with the help of entomological net--79 specimens (5 species) as well as from the soil samples by the method of the laboratory rearing 1077 specimens (24 species) were obtained.
(17) The entomological indices confirm perfectly the epidemiological findings in the central region as well as in the marginal zones.
(18) Their impact on the entomological parameters is remarkable with a reduction of more than 98% of ma and the rate of entomological inoculation (REI) in the houses.
(19) An entomological survey conducted at the international airports of the Fiji Islands showed Aedes albopictus breeding in the protective area of Nadi airport.
(20) The baseline clinico-parasitological parameters collected during the initial survey and the entomological observations made during the first year as a part of a longitudinal study undertaken in a brugian endemic rural community are presented in this paper.