(n.) A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.
(n.) An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Pomotis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes. See Pondfish.
(n.) A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera. See Sea Bream.
(v. t.) To clean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping.
Example Sentences:
(1) @LengelDavid October 2, 2013 Did you say Sid Bream?
(2) The change is reversed when the temperature is raised back to 22 degrees C, and it occurs a second time when the temperature is lowered again to 4 degrees C. The myelin in bream optic nerve undergoes a similar thermal transition, but the myelin in brachial plexus does not.
(3) On the other hand, when NSA-Na was anaerobically incubated with sea bream liver cytosol and NADPH, the formation of cyano-pentenone, cyano-pentanone, and cyanopentenol, but not cyano-pentadienone, was observed.
(4) A novel latent proteinase of which activity was induced by heating in the presence of NaCl was purified to homogeneity from threadfin-bream muscle by a combination of DEAE-cellulose, Con A-Sepharose, Arg-Sepharose, and Shim-pack HAC chromatographies.
(5) When the temperature of bream spinal cord is lowered from room temperature to 4 degrees C, much but not all of the AS (short spacing) myelin changes into AL (long spacing) myelin.
(6) Morphological patterns of the retina, cone size and density, rod density, rod-cone ratio, ganglion cell density, convergence of receptor cells, resolving power (RP) and regionalization were examined throughout life history in roach and in adults of asp, bream, common carp, roach and sabre carp.
(7) After all, the Pirates suffered 20 straight losing seasons after Sid Bream's slide ended their World Series hopes in game seven of the 1993 National League Championship.
(8) There are many more phases to come, including further luxury accommodation, a residential village, second golf course, banqueting facilities and other high-end leisure amenities.” James Bream, a research and policy director for Aberdeenshire tourism board, believes the opening of the first course in 2012 has increased tourism and given north-east Scotland a far higher-profile in the golfing world, helping its economy spread beyond a reliance on North Sea oil.
(9) The eggs of both the roach and bream is richer in these proteins than the sperm.
(10) Heterozygous breams turned out to be more stable to the effect of pleurocercoids than homozygous ones.
(11) The cause of the deaths of bony bream and other native fish in the Finke River near Alice Springs in winter 1984 was infection with the protozoan ciliate Chilodonella hexasticha.
(12) We investigated 39 fish species (eel, brown trout, chub, carp bream, roach, perch, pike etc.)
(13) A fish, such as sea bass or bream, or perhaps mackerel, can be seasoned in this way, as can a fillet or two of lamb.
(14) The quantitative yield is given for DNA and RNA preparations from the mentioned objects, the molecular weight of roach and bream DNA, nucleotide composition of roach DNA as well as fractional composition of bream spermatozoids RNA are determined.
(15) Serves 2 stock 750ml sea bream 1.35 kg, scaled and cleaned, but with head and tail intact For the sauce cooking oil 2 tbsp Sichuan chilli bean paste 2 tbsp (or Sichuan pickled chilli paste if you can get it) garlic 1 tbsp, finely chopped ginger 1 tbsp, finely chopped stock 200ml caster sugar 1 tbsp potato flour 2 tsp mixed with 1½ tbsp cold water Chinkiang vinegar 1 tbsp spring onion greens 3 tbsp, finely sliced Heat up the 750ml stock in a wok.
(16) There are my roast tomatoes with crumbs and thyme, Russell Norman's broad bean, mint and ricotta bruschette, Fuchsia Dunlop's fragrant sea bream, and a beet bourguignon from The Green Kitchen.
(17) Physiochemical characterization of labeled membrane immunoglobulin from bream lymphocytes suggested that only one class of immunoglobulin heavy chain was present and that about one-half of this material resembled the monomeric (2H-2L chain) IgM-like proteins present in bream serum.
(18) We think this type and quality of development is very important,” Bream said.
(19) The cells are known as the components of so called "yellow bodies" (melanine macrophage centers) entering particular numerously in the spleen and in the pronephric kidney of infected breams.
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Sunfish
Definition:
(n.) A very large oceanic plectognath fish (Mola mola, Mola rotunda, or Orthagoriscus mola) having a broad body and a truncated tail.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of perch-like North American fresh-water fishes of the family Centrachidae. They have a broad, compressed body, and strong dorsal spines. Among the common species of the Eastern United States are Lepomis gibbosus (called also bream, pondfish, pumpkin seed, and sunny), the blue sunfish, or dollardee (L. pallidus), and the long-eared sunfish (L. auritus). Several of the species are called also pondfish.
(n.) The moonfish, or bluntnosed shiner.
(n.) The opah.
(n.) The basking, or liver, shark.
(n.) Any large jellyfish.
Example Sentences:
(1) In embryos formed from warmouth x green sunfish hybrid crosses, the paternal GPI-A2 isozymes were first expressed at the same time in both reciprocal hybrids, at 21-25 hr after fertilization.
(2) Immature green sunfish, Lepomis cyanellus, were assessed in the laboratory tank only.
(3) The controls of a fibroblastic cell culture derived from gill tissue of bluegill sunfish showed spontaneous transformation after 6 months of passage, similar to the transformation observed in the experimental MAM acetate treated gill cultures.
(4) We report here that the GABA antagonists bicuculline and picrotoxin induced light-adaptive cone contraction in dark-adapted green sunfish retinas cultured in constant darkness; thus they mimic the effect of light or exogenously applied dopamine.
(5) We previously reported that 3,4-dihydroxyphenylethylamine (dopamine) mimicked the effect of light on these movements in photo-receptors and RPE cells of green sunfish, Lepomis cyanellus, by interacting with D2 dopaminergic receptors.
(6) n. is described from the episclera of the eye of the pumpkinseed sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus).
(7) However, there was a better correlation between the in vitro cytotoxicity data for the BF-2 cell culture and LC50 data for bluegill sunfish than between similar data for the FHM cell line and fathead minnows.
(8) Comparisons were made of the accumulation of selenium, histopathological damage, and reproductive status of redear sunfish (Lepomis microlophus) collected in July 1986 from Martin Lake (a contaminated site) and Lake Tyler (a reference site).
(9) The retinofugal and retinopetal connections in the green sunfish were studied by autoradiographic and horseradish peroxidase methods.
(10) Upon transferring 25 degrees C-acclimated sunfish to holding tanks at 7 degrees C, the total membrane resistance exhibited a sigmoidal increase over about 14 days, and a steady membrane capacitance was achieved in about 10 days.
(11) Several eye movements were evoked by electrical stimulation of the brain in anesthetized sunfish and goldfish.
(12) The membrane conductance of fibres from sunfish acclimated to 25 and 7 degrees C was linearly related to the extracellular chloride concentration.
(13) Cadmium effects on the bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus) were assessed histologically and biochemically and the effects were compared with effects on the ecologically relevant parameters of growth and survival.
(14) n. is described from the warmouth, Lepomis gulosus (Cuvier); brown bullhead, Ictalurus nebulosus (Lesueur); yellow bullhead, I. natalis (Lesueur); redbreast sunfish, L. auritus (Linnaeus); bluegill, L. macrochirus Rafinesque; spotted sunfish, L. punctatus (Valenciennes); and redfin pickerel, Esox americanus (Gmelin), from the Alabama River Drainage, brown bullhead from the Mobile Bay Drainage in Alabama, and pirate perch, Aphredoderus sayanus Gilliams, from an Atlantic Coast drainage in Georgia.
(15) BF-2 cells, an established cell line derived from bluegill sunfish, (Lepomis macrochirus), were exposed to 18 organic toxicants, with cytotoxicity being assayed by the neutral red (NR) technique.
(16) We have recorded ocular potentials in response to brief flashes of light from two teleosts, the white perch (Roccus americana) and the green sunfish (Lepomis cyanellus).
(17) The results show that tissue burdens of selenium have declined by 25% since this sunfish population was sampled last in 1981.
(18) The in vitro cytotoxicities of various polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) to bluegill sunfish BF-2 cells were determined with the neutral red assay, which was modified by the incorporation of an S-9 microsomal fraction.
(19) To explore the mechanisms of this light and circadian regulation, we have been investigating effects of several extracellular messengers known to be present in retina on retinomotor movements in the green sunfish (Lepomis cyanellus).
(20) The neutral red assay was used to compare the relative sensitivities of the FHM cells (exposed at 34 degrees C) with those of bluegill sunfish (BF-2) cells, a fibroblastic cell culture (exposed at 26 degrees C), in the presence of different classes of test agents frequently occurring as aquatic pollutants.