(n.) A south American fresh water fish of the genus Serrasalmo of many species, remarkable for its voracity. When numerous they attack man or beast, often with fatal results.
Example Sentences:
(1) Immunoreactive gonadotrophic hormone-releasing hormone (ir-GnRH) was detected in extracts from optic tectum, cerebellum and brain stem of the Venezuelan freshwater fish "caribe colorado", Pygocentrus notatus by means of radioimmunoassay.
(2) The data are puzzling and consistent with the possibility that both the Carib-speaking Macushi and the Arawak-speaking Wapishana have derived the esterase A allele in question from some third group now extinct or thus far undiscovered.
(3) Alba, Petro-Caribe and Unasur are all well established and bearing fruit.
(4) The information was afterwards integrated with data from other Carib groups, and two types of genetic distances (Nei's and Edwards') were calculated a) between five groups, considering ten systems; and b) between nine groups, using five systems.
(5) She said the argument ended when other secret service officers at the Hotel Caribe paid her about $250.
(6) An ethnobotanical survey was conducted among the Carib population of Guatemala in 1988-1989.
(7) (Menispermaceae), Indigofera amblyantha Craib (Leguminosae), I. carlesii Carib, I., fortunei Craib, I. decoa Lindl.
(8) To determine safety and immunogenicity, a single 0.5 ml dose of a monovalent live-attenuated dengue (DEN) 4 (341750 Carib) vaccine was given sc to 3 groups of flavivirus nonimmune volunteers in increasing concentrations.
(9) She said that the desk clerk at the Hotel Caribe called at 6.30am to tell her it was time to leave, and the agent addressed her with an insult in telling her to get out.
(10) In an attempt to provide direct comparability between the two machines, multiple linear regression equations were derived from reflectance spectrophotometry readings on 308 Black Caribs and 175 Creoles in Belize, Central America, using both machines.
(11) The Hotel Caribe is less than 1,000 metres from the Cartagena Hilton where Obama was staying.
(12) Most of the gene frequencies fit well into the pattern of frequencies of the Amerindian Carib group.
(13) On the other hand, the relatively high similarity of the Gê and the Carib shows an association with two main factors: (1) reduced spatial dispersion of the Gê in the recent past, providing adequate conditions for within-stock gene flow, and (2) strong tradition of intergroup contacts among the Carib, frequently followed by genetic admixture and even fusion of groups, as verified for the Wayana and the Aparaí.
(14) This association is examined among the Black Caribs of St. Vincent, West Indies.
(15) The catecholamines noradrenaline (NA), dopamine (DA), and adrenaline (A) were measured in hypothalamic and telencephalic extracts of the Venezuelan freshwater fish "caribe colorado," Pygocentrus notatus, at different stages of the reproductive cycle.
(16) This survey demonstrated that the Carib population of Guatemala has survived in a transcultural environment of African and native Amerindian beliefs.
(17) Local police were called to the Hotel Caribe in Cartagena's upmarket Bocagrande neighbourhood after a dispute with a woman in the room of one of the agents.
(18) Dengue 4 (DEN-4) virus strain 341750 Carib was modified by serial passage in primary canine kidney (PCK) cell cultures.
(19) Nine Carib and eight Tupi groups were studied for a minimum of eight common polymorphic systems and compared in terms of genetic distances using the methods of Nei and Edwards.
(20) I’d have to say Slim was different with a capital D. You never knew what was coming next Facebook Twitter Pinterest A woman reclining in a hammock hung between palm trees at the Caribe Hilton in San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 1956.