(n.) A swallow-tailed flag; a distinguishing pennant, used by cutters, yachts, and merchant vessels.
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(1) Representative are the set of skyscrapers that his firm, Johnson and Burgee, built for Houston oilmen.
Swallowtail
Definition:
(n.) A kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. See Dovetail.
(n.) A species of willow.
(n.) An outwork with converging sides, its head or front forming a reentrant angle; -- so called from its form. Called also priestcap.
(n.) A swallow-tailed coat.
(n.) An arrow.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of large and handsome butterflies, belonging to Papilio and allied genera, in which the posterior border of each hind wing is prolongated in the form of a long lobe.
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(1) Krka also plays host to a life-enhancing variety of butterflies, including swallowtails and clouded yellows, which appear to jostle for your attention along the paths.
(2) We have isolated and sequenced cDNA clones encoding a P-450, CYP6B1, from larvae of Papilio polyxenes (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae), the black swallowtail butterfly.
(3) Insect species examined were lepidopterous larvae of the cabbage looper (Trichoplusia ni), southern armyworm (Spodoptera eridania), and black swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes).
(4) Two of these stages unfold in the structural axis of the swallowtail model.
(5) Response properties and spectral sensitivities of a functional class of medulla neurons that received dominant input from a single stemma in the swallowtail butterfly larva were examined with regard to neutral and chromatic backgrounds.
(6) Many neurons exhibiting an antagonistic interaction between signals from one particular stemma (center) and neighboring stemmata (surround) were found in the second optic neuropil (medulla) of the larval swallowtail butterfly.
(7) In this model called swallowtail bifurcation set, the structural state of a biomembrane was within the control of two structural attractors.
(8) On Northern blots, mRNAs crossreactive with CYP6B1 were detected in three Papilio species that, like the black swallowtail, have high levels of xanthotoxin-metabolic P-450 activity and encounter xanthotoxin or related compounds in their host plants; in contrast, no crossreactive mRNAs were detectable in three papilinid species that never encounter xanthotoxin in their host plants and lack detectable xanthotoxin-metabolic activity.
(9) The swallowtail hypothesis was upheld for three criteria: color matching time (R2 = .55), printing press time (R2 = .55), and printing paper conserved or wasted (R2 = .83).