(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.
Shroud
Definition:
(n.) That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
(n.) Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
(n.) That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
(n.) A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
(n.) The branching top of a tree; foliage.
(n.) A set of ropes serving as stays to support the masts. The lower shrouds are secured to the sides of vessels by heavy iron bolts and are passed around the head of the lower masts.
(n.) One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
(n.) To cover with a shroud; especially, to inclose in a winding sheet; to dress for the grave.
(n.) To cover, as with a shroud; to protect completely; to cover so as to conceal; to hide; to veil.
(v. i.) To take shelter or harbor.
(v. t.) To lop. See Shrood.
Example Sentences:
(1) The underlying pathology was shrouded by incomplete abortion.
(2) It introduces a welcome trenchancy into subjects often shrouded in misty rhetoric.
(3) At recent climate change conferences, a coffin has been paraded through the halls of delegates covered in a shroud and attended by mourners.
(4) Its lines soften, its edges fade; it shrinks into the raw cold from the river, more like a shrouded mountain than a castle built for kings.
(5) Two of them begged for a rescue mission in phone calls yesterday, as the battles raged through a powerful sandstorm that shrouded the city from journalists and anxious refugees who have been watching the fighting from the safety of Turkish soil, just a few hundred feet away.
(6) The same intrepid, almost naive, fascination with a world shrouded in the icy fog of snobbery, deference, and class-consciousness animated Sampson.
(7) Tehran, surrounded by mountains and with millions of cars on its congested streets, has long been regarded as one of the world's most polluted cities, but the heavy smog that has recently shrouded its streets has been described as the worst in its history.
(8) "But the fact is that the whereabouts and fate of Gao have been shrouded in mystery by the Chinese government for far too long.
(9) Monarchy, of whatever stamp, shrouds society in class, when we can least afford it.
(10) See the bullet holes in street lamps... the shrouded vision in the clouds and the fog of the buildings from which the shots came... the photographs of those who lost their lives.. the people who put themselves on the line for the future of Ukraine.” Kerry said he spoke spontaneously with Ukrainians gathered there, who pleaded with him not to go back to life as it was under Yanukovych.
(11) We hope that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice will finally decide to comply with the law, and cease attempting to shroud in secrecy one aspect of their job that, above all others, should be conducted in the light of day."
(12) It sits amid north Glasgow’s famous Red Road tower blocks, shrouded and still awaiting demolition since organisers had second thoughts about blowing them up to mark the Commonwealth Games.
(13) Prolonged exposures of fracture faces under the protection of liquid nitrogen-cooled shrouds have shown that, because of the consequent drastic reduction of condensable gases in the specimen area, no detectable condensation contamination of exposed fracture faces occurs within 15 min at a specimen temperature of 108 degrees K. This shows that a complicated ultrahigh vacuum technology is not required for high resolution freeze- etching.
(14) How many other "invisible" stories are out there, shrouded by thick legal mist?
(15) As usual, the government applied the OSB media strategy to shroud the matters in secrecy.
(16) "Those are dead people in front of our house and the smell is awful," called out a woman from the balcony, her face shrouded in cloth to protect her from the stench.
(17) If this is how it behaves in the middle of one of Australia’s biggest cities, how does it conduct itself when shrouded behind the secrecy of “on water operations”?
(18) On these days, the smog clings to the city like a thick grey shroud, and its residents are ghost-like shadows moving through the haze.
(19) Consider an example from June of last year, when rampant fires across parts of Sumatra, Indonesia, shrouded the skies of Sumatra and neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia in a thick, choking haze.
(20) What happened next has always been shrouded in mystery.