(n.) A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera.
Example Sentences:
(1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
(2) In complete contrast, allozyme loci in these butterflies are strongly heterozygous and show only frequency differences (never amounting to homozygosity of alternative alleles) between races; the amount of allozyme divergence is the same between races of H. erato and H. sara, although in color pattern the first forms marked races and the other does not.
(3) "We're on track for one of the worst years on record for UK butterflies.
(4) To explain these contentions, the history, strengths, and limits of reductionist thinking are discussed, and aspects of chaos science, such as the butterfly effect and strange attractors, are described.
(5) Computerized tomography of the brain showed a butterfly-shaped hyperdensity in the splenium of the corpus callosum, with ventricular dilatation.
(6) On returning to the courtyard you can take an optional loop through the bee and butterfly wildflower meadow – the start of the path is just behind the engine shed building.
(7) At lower concentration, "parachute" and "butterfly" structures composed of two Hc molecules and one monoclonal immunoglobin G (IgG) molecule were obtained.
(8) Alex Horne: Monsieur Butterfly is at the Pleasance Courtyard, 15-29 August JOSEPH MORPURGO Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joseph Morpurgo.
(9) There are three population clusters of domestic rabbits, namely (1) New Zealand White and a hybrid combination; (2) Spanish Common, Butterfly, Burgundy, and Californian; and (3) Spanish Giant.
(10) The soil below has been planted with flowers to attract butterflies.
(11) Butterflies and birds were already migrating northwards to the poles , he added.
(12) There had been the notorious Redlands bust in 1967, after which Jagger and Richards had been jailed for possession of cannabis and amphetamines, famously prompting William Rees-Mogg to ask: "Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?"
(13) Subsequent to a critical consideration of the ambiguous methods of evaluation and documentation of electronystagmograms (ENG) practised up to now, in particular the butterfly-scheme and the L-scheme, a method is being introduced unequivocally describing the vestibular reaction, on the basis of primary nystagmus functions.
(14) Anterior spina bifida or butterfly vertebral body has a well known and characteristic appearance on plain film and CT. Its appearance on magnetic resonance imaging also appears to be characteristic and should not be mistaken for more serious abnormalities.
(15) Early stages of differentiation of the oocytes and nurse cells are comparatively studied in the polytrophic ovarioles in larvae, pupae and imago of the butterfly Laspeyresia pomonella and in the telotrophic ovarioles in larvae and imago of the bug Eurigaster integriceps.
(16) For all coils except the butterfly-shaped coil, the largest electric field was at the circumference of the coils.
(17) The colonies of migrating monarch butterflies that spend the winter in a patch of fir forest in central Mexico were dramatically smaller this season than they have been since monitoring began 20 years ago, according to the annual census of the insects released this week.
(18) I ask this question myself sometimes, sipping morning coffee in my suburban backyard, watching birds and butterflies.
(19) Fielding nods enthusiastically: 'By running a butterfly sanctuary in Peru.'
(20) The relation between the quality of the optical image and the fineness of the retinal mosaic has been studied in eyes of three different optical types: the simple eyes of spiders, the superposition compound eyes of moths, and the apposition compound eyes of butterflies.
Lep
Definition:
(obs. strong imp.) of Leap. Leaped.
Example Sentences:
(1) Six of the dogs had received Flury strain LEP vaccination.
(2) Further, LEP amplitudes in two patients with bilateral independent temporal lobe seizure onset were markedly diminished compared with one patient with a nontemporal lobe seizure onset.
(3) The most characteristic morphological feature of the CMV-infected BAMB cells was the formation of multinucleated giant cells which frequently contained more than a hundred nuclei; such cells were not seen in LEP cultures.
(4) The results suggest that LEPs are under cholinergic modulation.
(5) While in LEP cells most nucleocapsids were enveloped from the inner leaflet of the nuclear membrane, in the other system a great majority of the particles acquired their envelopes by budding into vacuoles.
(6) Both strains of diploide cells WI 38 and LEP and primary cultures of chicken fibroblast from embryos of SPF chickens did not develop any tumors.
(7) This is the biggest single investment in the north of England by a billion miles,” said Barry Dodd, chair of York, North Yorks and East Riding Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), supporting the proposal at Tuesday’s planning meeting in Whitby.
(8) To date, the consensus of the health care teams which are involved with the LEP is that 45 minutes every two weeks for discussion and planning for a selected long-stay patient has been time well spent.
(9) The plan will see £556m allocated to Local Enterprise Partnerships in the north of England, £542m to the Midlands and east of England, and £683m to LEPs in the south-west, south-east and London.
(10) LEP and SOC cell lines were contaminated with mouse cells.
(11) A female patient with disfiguring lupus erythematosus profundus (LEP) from the age of 13 years was found to have an isolated partial C4 deficiency, with reduced levels of both allotypes, C4A and C4B.
(12) With this system the lep gene of Salmonella typhimurium was cloned and the nucleotide sequence was determined.
(13) But he criticises the current quality of LEPs that replaced the regional development agencies, calling for them to be strengthened saying "they currently do not have the authority or resource to transform their locality".
(14) Adeno 7 T-antigen was detected earlier and in a higher percentage of GMK cells than in the fully permissive LEP cells and its formation was only slightly influenced by the incubation temperature.
(15) Human diploid cells (LEP) infected with herpes simplex virus (HSV) type 1 were extracted by treatment with Nonidet P-40.
(16) The patients receiving Ambroxol showed an increased LEP mean value (T50 = 18.36 min) in comparison with the baseline mean value (T50 = 16.41 min).
(17) Adeno 7 virus replicated well in human diploid (LEP) cells but only to a low degree in green monkey kidney (GMK) cells at 37 degrees C; it did not replicate in either system at 29 degrees C. At 37 degrees C SV 40 virus replicated well in GMK cells but only moderately in LEP cells; at 29 degrees C it did not replicate in either system.
(18) A RNase in all doses used had no effect on cell proliferation, whereas AS RNase exerted inhibitory activity beginning with the dose of 10 microgram, and affected more markedly the LEP cells (a diploid non-malignant cell line) than the malignant heteroploid HeLa cells.
(19) Adonis has decided not to abolish these 39 LEPs but instead significantly reduce their number and revamp their boundaries so they better match travel-to-work areas.
(20) The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of Ambroxol on lung epithelial permeability (LEP) in healthy smokers.