(a.) Of fundamental importance; preeminent; superior; chief; principal.
(a.) One of the ecclesiastical princes who constitute the pope's council, or the sacred college.
(a.) A woman's short cloak with a hood.
(a.) Mulled red wine.
Example Sentences:
(1) A possible role for Id for IgM Ab as cardinal autoantigens is discussed.
(2) Father Vincent Twomey said that given the damage done by Smyth and the repercussions of his actions, "one way or another the cardinal has unfortunately lost his moral credibility".
(3) From our data on symptomatology, family history and course of 538 such patients, several findings emerge of cardinal relevance to genetic studies.
(4) That diary was published in 2005 by Limes, a serious Italian magazine, which did not identify the cardinal.
(5) After the action-packed opening two innings the Cardinals, and particularly Wainwright, settled and the runs dried up.
(6) He did not speculate about when that would be, and he did not rebut Cardin’s claim that it could be next month.
(7) Updated at 4.05am BST 4.00am BST Dodgers 3 - Cardinals 0, top of 9th And so it's all up to Yadier Molina, the Cardinals catcher who is looking to get a rally going, no easy task against Jansen who looks to have his best stuff tonight.
(8) 4.11am BST Dodgers 2 - Cardinals 2, bottom of 7th Jay bunts!
(9) Updated at 3.53am GMT 3.50am GMT Red Sox 4 - Cardinals 2, bottom of the 9th Matt Carpenter takes a ball and a called strike.
(10) 1.20am GMT Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 3, top of the 4th Lackey gets ahead of Freese 1-2, if he could work around the error it would be- Freese takes strike three!
(11) The thymus is the first organ in the body to age, which seems incongruent considering its cardinal role in the immune system.
(12) The Democratic US Senator for Maryland, Ben Cardin, tried to enlist the State Department's help but was brushed aside.
(13) It derives from remnants of the left cardinal vein system.
(14) This list gives the Latin first names of all 115 cardinals.
(15) 2.10am BST Cardinals 3 - Dodgers 0, top of 4th Yadier Molina hits the first pitch to center field for the first out.
(16) After visiting the H-blocks, the Catholic archbishop Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich compared the conditions to "the sewer pipes in the slums of Calcutta".
(17) Freese is down to his last strike with a chance to tie it for the Cardinals.
(18) A month later, the papal conclave chose as his successor 76-year-old Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the archbishop of Buenos Aires, elevating the son of Italian immigrants to the highest office in the church.
(19) Now they await the results of the American League Championship Series to see whether this year's World Series will be a rematch of 2004, when the Cardinals were swept by the curse-reversing Boston Red Sox, or 2006, when the Cardinals defeated the Detroit Tigers and became one of the worst teams to win the World Series in MLB history .
(20) The cardinal signs and symptoms are given in detail, particularly those at the onset.
Grosbeak
Definition:
(n.) One of various species of finches having a large, stout beak. The common European grosbeak or hawfinch is Coccothraustes vulgaris.
Example Sentences:
(1) Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease, was isolated from the liver of a passerine bird, Catharus fuscescens (veery), and from larval Ixodes dammini (tick) feeding on Pheucticus ludovicianus (rose-breasted grosbeak) and Geothlypis trichas (common yellowthroat).
(2) the blue throat (Luscinia svecica), the scarlet grosbeak (Erythrina erythrina) and the red-necked phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus).
(3) In July and August 1990, fecal samples from 2 slate-colored grosbeaks were collected from the rain forest of Ecuador.