(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.
Zephyrus
Definition:
(n.) The west wind, or zephyr; -- usually personified, and made the most mild and gentle of all the sylvan deities.