(n.) The north wind; -- usually a personification.
Example Sentences:
(1) Discriminant analysis of eleven behavioral variables associated with feeding permitted the assignment of hyperosmotically-acclimating (HOA) toads (Bufo boreas) to six different behavioral states.
(2) Tadpoles of the western toad (Bufo boreas) and of the Cascades frog (Rana cascadae) show an alarm reaction to an extract containing chemical cues from damaged conspecifics.
(3) The mean time spent by individual B. boreas tadpoles in the half of the test tank to which the extract solution was added was significantly lower than expected by chance.
(4) Trypanosoma fallisi is morphologically similar to T. bufophlebotomi described in Bufo boreas from California, but geographic isolation, host and vector differences as well as slight morphological differences indicate that speciation has occurred.
(5) The Weather Channel, which is calling the storm “Boreas” – after the Greek god of the cold north wind who once fathered 12 horses after taking the form of a stallion – said the storm was “spreading its wintry mess” of snow, sleet and freezing rain into the east.
(6) Two North American species of the genus Bufo (Bufo cognatus and Bufo boreas, 2n = 22) and one African species (Bufo regularis, 2n = 20) were analyzed with respect to their repetitive DNA fractions and the behaviour of their chromatin to the acid hydrolysis at different times.
(7) These results suggest that the R. cascadae tadpole alarm reaction exists but differs from the B. boreas reaction.
(8) Transmission studies carried out in the laboratory incriminated Phlebotomus vexator occidentis as a vector of a species of trypanosome that infects Bufo boreas halophilus.
Southerly
Definition:
(a.) Southern.
Example Sentences:
(1) We can’t escape each other and get on our iPhones.” Malta, one of the European Union’s most southerly points, was an ideal starting place for a three-week cruise to Tunisia and along the coast of Sicily, not far from Calabria, the southern toe of Italy .
(2) This extreme coincided with exceptionally strong northerly winds, which were followed by an abrupt southerly change.
(3) Inexperience of travel, smoking, more southerly travel and younger age (particularly those between 20- and 29-years-old) were other contributing factors.
(4) Similarly, the highest mean proportion of high values (66,3%) was seen in the most southerly group studied.
(5) A more southerly population of ocean pout from New Brunswick in which the circulating antifreeze protein levels are considerably lower has approximately one-quater as many antifreeze protein genes.
(6) Moor Sands, Prawle Point, south Devon The dramatic Prawle Point coastline, between Salcombe and Dartmouth, is the most southerly point in Devon and offers some of the finest hidden coves in the UK.
(7) In Sydney on Wednesday the temperature is forecast to be 35C in the city and 42C in the west but a cool southerly change will begin to pass through the city about midday.
(8) Sydney mother to face court after four children found in car in heatwave Read more “We do have a southerly change on the way, so we’ll see cooler conditions for southern parts of the state [on Wednesday],” BoM spokeswoman Sarah Chadwick said on Tuesday.
(9) Analysis of MS prevalence rates amongst migrant populations in Queensland as compared to the more southerly city of Perth in Western Australia, suggested that the risk of acquisition of MS may extend over a wider age range than is generally accepted.
(10) Southerly winds brought warm air in from the continent and the settled conditions resulted in sunshine to that part of Wales ,” she said.
(11) Conditions have been unusually tough and at times very frustrating with a frequent southerly drift pushing us backwards every time we camped for the night.
(12) Since no evidence of a rodent epizootic was uncovered in the village itself, and because of the distinct clustering of the bubonic cases, human-to-human spread of plague by infected ectoparasite vectors, presumably Pulex irritans, is thought to have occurred.This focus probably represents the most southerly boundary of the central Asian plague area yet identified.
(13) The extent of sea ice is strongly influenced by the strength and direction of the winds and the increase in storms has given more warm, northerly flow over the Bellingshausen Sea and greater cold, southerlies over the Ross Sea.
(14) I think it’s a more southerly thing, politics now Facebook Twitter Pinterest Labour party candidate Paula Sherriff campaigning in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.
(15) Although the first two hypotheses were rejected, states with sodomy laws scored significantly higher than states without such laws on Gastil's Index of Southerness.
(16) That’s what we have been embracing during a 1,500-day, 44,000-mile campervan trip that’s taken my husband Jeremy and I to hundreds of camping spots – from Colombia’s Caribbean coast through deserts and plains, around volcanoes and over the Andes down to the continent’s most southerly tip: wind-whipped Tierra del Fuego.
(17) Distances of 1250-1350 km are traversed in 18-24 h at heights up to 1.5 km with temperatures greater than or equal to 13 degrees C. Landing takes place where the warm southerly winds meet cold fronts associated with rain.
(18) I knew Jackson Browne and John David Souther better than anybody."
(19) 600 miles, 965 km) on strong easterly to southerly prevailing winds.
(20) And into this advanced decomposition other deathly winds are blowing: Islamic State the sirocco of the north; and al-Qaida, the southerly harmattan sweeping up from Niger and Mali.