(n.) A bird of prey of the Hawk family, belonging to the genus Buteo and related genera.
(n.) A blockhead; a dunce.
(a.) Senseless; stupid.
Example Sentences:
(1) All detectable anatomical structures are identified and set into relationship to discernable structures in cockatoos (Cacatua galerita galerita), common buzzards (Buteo buteo) and mynah birds (Gracula religiosa).
(2) Only 1 campylobacter isolate could be recovered from altogether 54 birds of prey although 16 Buzzards (Buteo buteo) were investigated as nestlings.
(3) The diagnosis and treatment of a case of lead poisoning in a honey buzzard (Pernis apivorus) are described.
(4) Other commuter hubs at the southern end of the line, including Northampton , Hemel Hempstead and Leighton Buzzard, are promised similar benefits.
(5) 8 buzzards (Buteo buteo) were infected orally with cysts of Frenkelia clethrionomyobuteonis of the bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus).
(6) Electroretinograms (ERG) under dark and bright adaptation as well as flicker ERGs were recorded from 15 common buzzards, and normograms were established.
(7) There is an abundance of wildlife here in summer, holly blue butterflies flutter on the breeze and buzzards circle high overhead.
(8) The local Friends of the Earth group in Leighton Buzzard, of which I am a member, had to threaten direct action even to get display boards erected for the bus timetables and then had to put in timetables and do displays themselves as the council did not have the budget for marketing.
(9) Frostbite and actinic damage, abrasions of the nipples, collisions with vehicles and injuries by buzzards are further possible incidents to be reckoned with occasionally.
(10) Twenty-two raptors (red kites and buzzards) were found dead in Conon Bridge, Scotland, in March in what looked like a poisoning.
(11) The gross and histological lesions of a protozoan infection, possibly caused by Leucocytozoon, in parakeets (genera Neophema and Cyanoramphus), budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) and a wild buzzard (Buteo buteo) are described.
(12) Why, you might ask, aren’t they marvelling over how one can get to Bletchley on the train in four minutes, Leighton Buzzard in 11 minutes, Cheddington in 17?
(13) I have never felt such a palpable sense of anger from the public as has been shown over Defra's plans for a pilot project remove buzzards and destroy their nests in order to protect pheasants released by shooting estates.
(14) In contrast, no induction was found in buzzard under the same conditions.
(15) The UK’s biggest operating energy storage system is an £18m battery plant installed by UK Power Networks (UKPN) at Leighton Buzzard, a growing Bedfordshire town.
(16) Monooxygenase activities were not very different apart from a high 7-ethoxycoumarin de-ethylase activity in quail as compared to buzzard.
(17) In the weeks after the latest stalemate, these fears seemed to be borne out by a gamekeeper seeking permission to protect the pheasants he breeds by “controlling” buzzards.
(18) A general survey of Common Buzzard optic structures suggest a certain preponderancy of tectofugal system on thalamofugal system.
(19) The boomerang triumph can be traced back to a single company in Leighton Buzzard whose own general manager is at pains to stress “Boomerangs are obviously not exactly a huge market” , while the naans-to-India bit is a reference to one baker in Dunstable who has invested in a factory outside Mumbai.
(20) Shortly after 8am, James Linacre, a financial journalist, boarded at Leighton Buzzard, one stop closer to Euston, and glanced briefly down the carriage before squatting to sit cross-legged in the floor next to one of the doors.
Dunce
Definition:
(n.) One backward in book learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mutant alleles of rutabaga act in the germ line cells to partially suppress the developmental defects caused by dunce mutations.
(2) Mutant dunce flies have elevated levels of cAMP and exhibit a number of defects including learning deficiencies and female sterility.
(3) These homologies, together with prior genetic and biochemical studies, provide unambiguous evidence that dunce+ codes for a phosphodiesterase.
(4) The recovery of clones from the differential screen demonstrates that in addition to altering normal behavior, fertility, and cAMP metabolism, dunce mutation confers an alteration in the level of expression of certain genes.
(5) The cDNA clone defines dunce exons which are separated by a large intron of 79 kb.
(6) We have isolated several genes expressed at abnormal levels in the memory mutant, dunce (dnc), of Drosophila melanogaster.
(7) It is basic maths – not so much the Wolf of Wall Street, more the Dunce of Downing Street."
(8) The nucleotide sequence of this clone led to the identification of a dunce exon included in at least one transcript so far uncharacterized.
(9) In addition, the dunce+ gene product shares a seven-amino acid sequence with a regulatory subunit of cAMP-dependent protein kinase that is predicted to be part of the cAMP binding site.
(10) Not all are convinced that Pisa officials should don the dunce cap.
(11) We have isolated and sequenced cDNA clones representing portions of the polyadenylylated transcripts of the dunce+ gene.
(12) Winter Garden Theatre, New York, starts 9 November A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole didn’t live long enough to see the publication of his celebrated comic novel, so he definitely isn’t around for the theatrical adaptation, which will premier at the Huntington with designs on a Broadway run.
(13) The molecular organization of the dunce gene of Drosophila melanogaster has proved to be particularly complex, with two divergently transcribed genes, Sgs-4 and Pig-1, nested within its 79 kb intron (1).
(14) Female columnists have not been kind to the group in retrospect; Caitlin Moran basically blamed "Girl Power" for the loss of interest in feminism, while Grace Dent went further by saying that "any student in 2012 who regurgitates this Spice Girls-helped-feminism baloney in a dissertation should have the whole thing shredded and be made to wear a dunce cone in graduation pics".
(15) Selection of mutations that suppress dunce sterility has led to the isolation of two rutabaga alleles.
(16) The deduced amino acid sequences of part of this region were also homologous to the D. melanogaster dunce PDE and to PDEs from bovine and yeast.
(17) Two dunce mutants examined show aberrant RNA expression from this coding region, confirming that this region is the dunce gene.
(18) A probe representing the Drosophila dunce+ (dnc+) gene, the structural gene for a cAMP phosphodiesterase (PDEase), detects homologous sequences in many different organisms, including mouse, rat, and human.
(19) In both dunce and rutabaga larvae, voltage-clamp analysis of neuromuscular transmission revealed impaired synaptic facilitation and post-tetanic potentiation as well as abnormal responses to direct application of dibutyryl cAMP.
(20) Coisogenic lines were constructed which varied at the dunce gene (dnc+ and dncM14 alleles) in order to test this hypothesis.