(a.) Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: (a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; (b) to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; (c) to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.
Example Sentences:
(1) The urine compositions of the European mole Talpa europaea and of the white rat Rattus norvegicus (albino) kept on a carnivore's diet were compared.
(2) The data show that the structure of inner and outer enamel layers differ between these two carnivore species and that the enamel structure of the cat was most similar to that described in humans.
(3) This is more like an assemblage of bones buried during a single depositional episode, such as a flood, than an assemblage accumulated on a soil over a long period of time by carnivores or other means of death.
(4) We have not seen anything like this in a hundred years, back when the policy was that all large carnivores were to be eradicated.’ Photograph: Kevin Rushby Nina Jensen, chief executive of WWF in Norway, said: “This is mass slaughter.
(5) Examination of the original descriptions of the species of Sarcocystis in cattle, sheep, and swine, and of isosporid oocysts shed sporulated by dogs, cats, man, and other carnivores, has shown that it is not possible in most instances to identify unambiguously recently recognized taxa.
(6) Domestic cats, 11 other species of carnivorous mammals, 6 species of snakes, and white-backed vultures were tested for their possible role as definitive hosts of Benoitia besnoiti by feeding with cystic material from chronically infected bovines.
(7) It has been established experimentally that the Opisthorchis metacercaria in fish muscles were killed at -28 degrees S in 15-20 h., at -35 degrees C in 8 h. and at -40 degrees C in 2 h. The period of fish freezing becomes much longer when it is stored in snow-covered heaps, which may be the cause of Opisthorchis invasion of wild and domestic carnivorous animals.
(8) Remarkably, the ratio for adult rabbits is higher than in other monogastric herbivores and is instead similar to values for carnivores.
(9) It has been previously shown that in carnivores the NOT-DTN receives information from primary visual cortical areas in addition to the direct retinal input.
(10) ruminants, equids, carnivores and proboscidates) the thickness of elastic fibres of the nuchal ligament is a specific character, i.e.
(11) Despite fears that large carnivores are doomed to extinction because of rising human populations and overconsumption, a study published in Science has found that large predator populations are stable or rising in Europe.
(12) The breakages in carnivores' teeth were massively greater in the pre-human era .
(13) The ability of Trichinella spiralis larvae to survive at subfreezing temperatures encysted in the musculature of wild carnivorous mammals was assessed by evaluating motility and infectivity (to rodents) of trichinae at various intervals after storage in frozen skeletal muscle.
(14) A hitherto-unknown atavistic muscle in the dog initiated a review of the literature on the homologies and nomenclature of the forelimb flexors in carnivores and man.
(15) Mysłajek says only scientific arguments – the need to regenerate forests and control the ungulate population – can save Europe’s wild carnivores, especially the unpopular wolf.
(16) Poxviruses isolated from captive carnivores in Russia (Moscow virus) and elephants in Germany (elephant virus) were very closely-related to cowpox virus.
(17) The probable reservoirs of infection are wild carnivores, infection of man and dog being accidental.
(18) More ancient satellite DNAs were dispersed in carnivors or mammalian genomes.
(19) Between 20 and 22 June 1974, three captive carnivores (two genets, Genetta sp.
(20) Evidence was obtained that the pathogenesis of experimental PDV-infection in harbour seals shares some features with those of canine distemper in terrestrial carnivores.
Lioness
Definition:
(n.) A female lion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Norway 1-2 England | Women’s World Cup round-of-16 match report Read more Then it was time for Sampson to turn serious and praise his Lionesses after they came from a goal down to see off the challenge of Norway.
(2) Mark Sampson was overjoyed to see his Lionesses become the first England team of either gender to reach a World Cup semi final since Sir Bobby Robson’s side reached the last four at Italia 90.
(3) The Lionesses suffered heartbreak in the semi-finals when Laura Bassett’s stoppage-time own-goal condemned them to a 2-1 defeat by Japan.
(4) After that, much of the first half was all about Japan dominating possession, with the Lionesses struggling to second-guess Aya Miyami’s midfield promptings and sometimes wrongfooted by the classy Rumi Utsugi.
(5) They say breeders remove the cubs from their mother so that the lioness will quickly become fertile again, as they squeeze as many cubs from their adults as possible – five litters every two years.
(6) A lioness was accidentally poisoned by consumption of meat of a horse euthanased with pentobarbital.
(7) · Joan Maud Littlewood, theatre director, born October 6 1914; died September 20 2002 Related article: Joan Littlewood, theatre's radical lioness, dies
(8) After a shaky start to Canada 2015 the Lionesses ended up second in Group F, finishing behind France on goal difference.
(9) She did something that few players manage to do: reduced Williams to a shaking wreck, near tears and screaming in exasperation, before the world No1 regathered her fighting spirit and came back at her like a wounded lioness to win 6-2, 4-6, 7-5 .
(10) With Lene Mykjaland having rather less room for manoeuvre than before, the Lionesses at least mustered the odd attacking move.
(11) "She was 4ft 11 tall, but an absolute lioness," he said.
(12) In May, rangers shot a lioness after it had stalked an upmarket Nairobi neighbourhood for some months.
(13) For a brief moment Mark Sampson appeared close to tears as he reflected on his Lionesses’ World Cup exit following Laura Bassett’s stoppage time own goal in the World Cup semi-final against Japan.
(14) And this group of players are friends for life now.” He felt the Lionesses could easily have won but paid tribute to their opponents.
(15) Initially she was portrayed as the desperate lioness fighting tooth and claw for justice for her dead daughter.
(16) The Lionesses had an important audience watching on television back home and, refusing to disappoint their new public, they held on long enough to ensure history was made.
(17) "Have politely been told to zip it and stop lioness-ing.
(18) It was time for the Lionesses to remind everyone that they do not know the meaning of giving up.
(19) More audacious tactics from the Lionesses’ young coach ultimately earned a quarter-final place.
(20) Fortunately for the Lionesses the angle was awkward and Minde could not squeeze her shot into the bottom corner.