(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).
Porpoise
Definition:
(n.) Any small cetacean of the genus Phocaena, especially P. communis, or P. phocaena, of Europe, and the closely allied American species (P. Americana). The color is dusky or blackish above, paler beneath. They are closely allied to the dolphins, but have a shorter snout. Called also harbor porpoise, herring hag, puffing pig, and snuffer.
(n.) A true dolphin (Delphinus); -- often so called by sailors.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using the evoked potential technique, studies have been made on localization of the projectional sensory areas in the cerebral cortex (visual, acoustic and somatosensory) of the porpoise T. truncatus.
(2) However, the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society said electronic pingers could already be used under current EU nature laws, which also protect porpoises from trawling, dredging, pile driving and noise from military sonars.
(3) Immunoperoxidase staining revealed the presence of morbillivirus antigen in a range of epithelia from both porpoises.
(4) Port Gaverne , a little cove near Port Isaac always described as "quaint", is a good place to watch seals (and occasional basking sharks, dolphins and porpoises), go fishing or rummage in rock pools.
(5) I would like to spend more time there because it’s very quiet, it’s very beautiful, you’re surrounded by nature, and as you look out across Kilbrannan Sound you can see schools of porpoises go past.
(6) The lipid components of porpoise lipokeratinocytes appear to subserve not only barrier function in a hypertonic milieu, but also underlie the unique buoyancy, streamlining, insulatory, and caloric properties exhibited as adaptations to the cetacean habitat.
(7) Thirty-six harbor porpoises, Phocaena phocaena, were caught off the coast of Southern New Brunswick and Nova Scotia as part of a study of the biology and ecology of these animals.
(8) Six harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) found stranded on the coast of Northern Ireland in late 1988 were submitted to our laboratory for necropsy.
(9) The porpoise, an air-breathing mammal whose habits are entirely aquatic, presents special problems of respiration, sleep, and anesthesia.
(10) The critical period of limb development in southern minke whale was shown to be at a stage between that in the small sized species; Common Porpoise, Phocoena communis and Striped Dolphin, Prodelphinus caeruleoalbus, and in large one; Humpback Whale, Megaptera nodusa.
(11) Similar features in mechanisms of discrimination of paired impulses in man and porpoise are noted.
(12) Studies have been made on the oxygen consumption in different parts of the cardiac muscle, as well as in deep and subcutaneous muscles of the porpoise Phocaena phocaena.
(13) It differs from the myoglobins of the dolphin in 6, of the porpoise in 8, and of the sperm whale in 14 positions.
(14) Early foetuses of the harbour porpoise (46 and 65 mm CRL) already exhibited a variety of typical odontocete brain features, such as absence of olfactory bulb, thick cochlear nerve, and strong progression of brainstem structures.
(15) Lymphoid depletion was apparent in the spleen, thymus and lymph nodes of both porpoises.
(16) Using DNA analysis of the the bite wounds, a Dutch team examined 721 of 1,081 porpoises that were stranded between 2003 and 20013 along the Dutch coastline and found that nearly one in five had been killed by seals.
(17) Afterwards, head up to the nearby Iron Age hillfort at Bolt Tail for spectacular sunsets and the chance to spot dolphins and porpoises.
(18) He saw a shoal of porpoises and a stormy petrel skimming over the waves and read "Humboldt's glowing accounts of tropical scenery.
(19) Video captured last year appeared to show a grey seal eating a harbour porpoise off the coast of Pembrokeshire , while one study laid the blame for a series of mystery porpoise deaths off the Dutch coast on greys .
(20) They reported no further sightings until 10.40am, when they confirmed their boat Marine 2 was “following a pod of about five harbour porpoises in the Lambeth area of the river.” MPSonthewater (@MPSonthewater) Breaking #dolphin news.. Marine 2 are following a pod of about 5 harbour porpoises in the Lambeth area of the river.