(n.) A fresh-water fish of the genus Lota, having on the nose two very small barbels, and a larger one on the chin.
Example Sentences:
(1) The variation in levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (sigma PCBs), chlorobenzenes and chlorinated pesticides was studied in burbot (Lota lota) from eight remote locations along a northwesterly transect from northwestern Ontario to the Mackenzie River delta in Canada.
(2) The new species studied are the goldeye (Hiodon alosoides), the yellow eel (Anguilla anguilla), the archer fish (Toxotes jaculatrix), the goldfish (Carassius auratus) and the burbot (Lota lota).
(3) times per year, the most frequent being caribou (145, mean), beluga whale (74), hares (35), muskrat (26), whitefish (52), cisco (39), burbot (38), inconnu (37), Arctic charr (31), geese (44) ducks (19), ptamigan (18), cloudberries (22), cranberries (20) and blueberries (18).
(4) The level of general lipids in the liver of burbot and stickleback infected with plerocercoids of D. latum and D. vogeli, respectively, decreases.
(5) A reconstructed separate fat image was used for studying the fat content of the liver of 12 dead and six living fasting burbots (Lota lota) in a 0.04 T magnetic field with olive oil as a reference.
(6) The burbots tolerated transport and repeated anesthesia and appear well suited for experimental ultrasound studies.
(7) Six live burbot fish (Lota lota) were examined on the 1st, 7th and 15th day after capture.
(8) Although the highest prevalences were found in adult burbot (Lota lota) in two of the areas, these fish are more likely a blind end in the life cycle of T. nodulosus in the present case.
(9) Intracellular recordings were made from morphologically identified hair cells in the lateral line canal organs of the burbot Lota lota.
(10) Simultaneous parasitism of plerocercoids of D. latum and Triaenophorus nodulosus in the liver of burbot causes especially great changes in the lipoid metabolism.
(11) The differences in fat concentration among the burbot livers were also clearly shown.
(12) The method was tested on a normal human thigh, on a human liver with confirmed fatty infiltration, and on the livers of four live burbots.
(13) They explain how burbot was the suspected food responsible for the auto-intoxication and how the X ray examination of the vertebrae of this fish allowed them to support the diagnosis of "tetrodonic" poisoning; the inquest did not allow to state precisely where the fish was caught.
(14) This role is exemplified through four cases: the Zermatt typhoid epidemics of 1963, a sanitary survey in Ouagadougou, the bioaccumulation of pollutants in the burbots of Swiss waters and the damages of earthwork in developing countries (roads and dams).
(15) The living burbot is an applicable test animal for studying the hepatic fat content with MR.
(16) The post-synaptic action of efferent fibres on lateral line organs in the burbot was investigated with extracellular electrodes.2.
(17) Cystobranchus mammillatus, a parasite of burbot, is widely distributed in the tributaries of Baikal.
(18) Significant declines in concentrations of PCB congeners, DDT isomers (sigma DDT), lindane, dieldrin, and mirex in burbot liver were found with increasing north latitude.
Cusk
Definition:
(n.) A large, edible, marine fish (Brosmius brosme), allied to the cod, common on the northern coasts of Europe and America; -- called also tusk and torsk.
Example Sentences:
(1) Between these worlds, Cusk has crafted a work of beauty and wisdom.
(2) This is my story, Cusk says, allowing no other voices that might further illuminate.
(3) CD: I don't think Rachel Cusk's book is particularly confessional.
(4) It is difficult to see where Cusk's discontent comes from when, on the face of it, she has had the cushiest of lives.
(5) Cusk writes: "My husband believed that I had treated him monstrously.
(6) Ihave never actually handled a highly strung racehorse, but that is what interviewing Rachel Cusk brings to mind.
(7) Cusk makes you think differently and look differently, even if you don't agree with what she's saying.
(8) It's only slowly, and in recent years, that the voice of the mother has come out – the odd middlebrow novel of the kind Virago and Persephone rescue ( EM Delafield or Dorothy Whipple ) and more recently Margaret Drabble , Julie Myerson , Rachel Cusk .
(9) Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation, by Rachel Cusk , is published on 1 March by Faber and Faber.
(10) "Cusk anatomises motherhood as Montaigne anatomised friendship or Robert Burton anatomised melancholy ...
(11) And Rachel Cusk's "Aftermath", a tantalising excerpt from her divorce memoir, which comes out next year.
(12) Rachel Cusk may have written "childbirth and motherhood are the anvil upon which sexual inequality was forged" but using personal experience is still controversial.
(13) They say "What shines in Rachel Cusk's writing is the precision of her observation... she can pinpoint something profound with the merest detail."
(14) He still had literary supporters, with DJ Taylor, Rachel Cusk and Anne Tyler all writing admiringly of his novels, but Read had become a more marginal artistic figure, and two years ago, after completing a new novel, the thrillerish The Death of a Pope , both his publisher and agent were concerned it was too Catholic and would not appeal to a wider readership.
(15) Few figures in contemporary British literature divide people like Rachel Cusk.
(16) • The Bradhsaw Variations by Rachel Cusk is published by Faber on 3 September at £15.99 and is available from the Observer bookshop .
(17) Rachel Cusk's Aftermath might help me, guide me, support me during times of marriage breakdown.
(18) However, Rachel Cusk is not one for counting her blessings.
(19) Whether she imputes that view to the solicitor or not, Cusk still wants it both ways: we're asked to imagine her ex as such a magnificent lawyer that he managed to make her feel as though she were conscripting him, when all along, they were working to his long-game.
(20) Cusk gazes at herself unblinkingly, and judges harshly what she sees.