(n.) A shelter; esp. a hole in the ground made by certain animals, as rabbits, for shelter and habitation.
(n.) A heap or heaps of rubbish or refuse.
(n.) A mound. See 3d Barrow, and Camp, n., 5.
(v. i.) To excavate a hole to lodge in, as in the earth; to lodge in a hole excavated in the earth, as conies or rabbits.
(v. i.) To lodge, or take refuge, in any deep or concealed place; to hide.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, a Defra report in 2005 concluded that gassing "cannot be reliably expected to kill all the animals in a complex burrow system".
(2) Because ammocoetes are burrowing filter feeders, this startle behavior results in rapid withdrawal of the head into the burrow.
(3) Building techniques are minutely reported; burrow construction simplifies defence and allows re-use by succeeding generations.
(4) Burrows had resigned as governor of Bank of Ireland, leaving the lender in dire straits, with big losses and mounting debt threatening its very survival.
(5) C.subimmaculatus was closely associated with a particular substrate and the presence of burrowing crabs.
(6) The latest comes from Cambridge University, where Malcolm Burrows and Gregory Sutton have found that some insects have "gears" – in principle, much like those in cars.
(7) What it says is that their moral code is lacking any kind of compass we can endorse,” said Sharan Burrow, the Ituc general secretary.
(8) A broadening and an anterior elongation of the head-foot produced a wedge to facilitate burrowing.
(9) Chronic exposure of nestlings to the hypercapnia and hypoxia within burrows seems to significantly alter their ventilatory response to these respiratory stimuli.
(10) As the silt cleared, we found ourselves on a flat plain of yellow-tinged mud, inscribed with pits, burrows and tracks by species that eke out their existence on the detritus that settles from above.
(11) Mycobacterium leprae is found in armadillo burrows in Louisiana, U.S.A., and ocular abrasions may be the portal of entry for these organisms in wild armadillos.
(12) The burrows of R. opimus were the main shelters and breeding places of the sandflies, but infection was not transmitted equally in all burrows.It was known that the distribution of sandflies within the burrows was influenced by the humidity in the different parts of the burrow and a survey showed that the highest rate of infection of gerbils occurred in the burrows in those areas with the highest subsoil moisture content.Studies of the prevalence of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis among people in the settlements of the Murghab oasis showed that the years with the highest infection rate were also years with slightly higher rainfall and lower air temperatures in this area.
(13) I found myself skirting the wood’s perimeter, a no-go zone of the past for us, and came next to a gravel-pocked face mined by rabbits with one of the burrows crowned with the skull of an ancestor.
(14) C. californiensis, when placed in simulated burrow conditions, regulates the PO2 very loosely in its immediate microhabitat, using its pleopods.
(15) The results of our physiological analysis in the burrowing owl (Speotyto cunicularia) also reveal a tilted horopter in this terrestrial avian species.
(16) Chris Burrows, chairman of the Greater Manchester branch of the Police Federation, said: "We are already suffering massive cuts in the police budget.
(17) It is expedient to consider the relations revealed between the burrow biocenosis components in investigation of plague enzootic aspects and development of new biological insecticides for control of the infection carriers.
(18) The mole rat (Spalax ehrenbergi) burrows throughout its life in subterranean tunnels.
(19) Burrow's shortness inevitably made him the butt of a thousand jokes.
(20) Like many of the millions who burrowed underground to extract diamonds, gold and other minerals, Gura came a long way from home in search of a working wage.
Caecilian
Definition:
(n.) A limbless amphibian belonging to the order Caeciliae or Ophimorpha. See Ophiomorpha.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fine structural and enzyme histochemical observations on ultimobranchial body and parathyroid gland of the caecilian Chthonerpeton are presented.
(2) Cutaneous granular glands are a shared character of adult amphibians, including caecilians, and are thought to be the source of most biologically active compounds in amphibian skin.
(3) In the brain of the Caecilian species Chthonerpeton indistinctum the following enzymes have been demonstrated by means of histochemical techniques: acid phosphatase, alpha-naphthylacetate esterase, acetylcholin esterase.
(4) A crossed rubrospinal tract occurs in anurans, limbed urodeles and reptiles, birds and mammals, but is apparently absent in boid snakes, caecilians and sharks.
(5) The innervation of the musculature of the tongue and the hyobranchial apparatus of caecilians has long been assumed to be simple and to exhibit little interspecific variation.
(6) The ultrastructure of the distal nephron, the collecting duct and the Wolffian duct was studied in a South American caecilian, Typhlonectes compressicaudus (Amphibia, Gymnophiona) by transmission and scanning electron microscopy (TEM, SEM).
(7) Precocious ossification of these and other jaw elements is an evolutionarily derived feature not found in metamorphosing anurans, but shared with some direct-developing caecilians.
(8) Probably in all caecilians, spinal nerves 1 and 2 contribute to the hypoglossal.
(9) Fifteen restriction sites were mapped to the 28S ribosomal RNA gene of individuals representing 54 species of frogs, two species of salamanders, a caecilian, and a lungfish.
(10) The results are in general agreement with previous reports on other caecilian species.
(11) The paraventricular organ is not differentiated in the lungfish (Lepidosiren) and the caecilian (Typhlonectes).
(12) The ultrastructure of the renal corpuscle, the neck segment, the proximal tubule and the intermediate segment of the kidney of a South American caecilian, Typhlonectes compressicaudus (Amphibia, Gymnophiona) was examined by means of transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and freeze-fracture technique.
(13) A study of the ear and its responses to acoustic stimuli was carried out in two caecilian species, Geotrypetes seraphini and Dermophis mexicanus.
(14) Whereas Salamandra salamandra possesses a rubrospinal tract, it is absent in the limbless caecilian Ichthyophis kohtaoensis.
(15) A study of 14 genera representing all six families of caecilians demonstrates that general patterns of innervation by the trigeminal, facial, glossopharyngeal, and vagus nerves are similar across taxa but that the composition of the "hypoglossal" nerve is highly variable.
(16) Of particularly high activity are: the motor neurons in the tegmentum, the nucleus mesencephali trigemini, individual large neurons in the marginal zone of the grey matter of the telencephalon, which seems to be a special character of the Caecilians among the Amphibia.
(17) The structure of the ear is examined in two species of caecilians, Ichthyophis glutinosus and I. orthoplicatus, and the sensitivity to aerial sounds is assessed in terms of the electrical potentials of the cochlea.
(18) The presence of nucleus ruber in urodeles and caecilians (amphibia) was investigated.
(19) These patterns, the lengths of fusion of the contributing elements, and the branching patterns of the hypoglossal are assessed according to the currently accepted hypothesis of phylogenetic relationships of caecilians, and of amphibians.
(20) The pituitary glands of two urodelan species (Mertensiella caucasica, Triturus cristatus) and one one caecilian species (Chthonerpeton indistinctum) were examined with histological (Alcian blue, Brookes' trichrome stain), enzyme histochemical (acid phosphatase, alpha-naphthylacetate-esterase, acetylcholinesterase) and immunofluorescence techniques (anti-carp GTH, anti-ovine prolactin, anti-synthetic alpha-MSH).