(n.) A gastropod shell belonging to the family Cerithiidae; -- so called from its hornlike form.
(n.) A mineral of a brownish of cherry-red color, commonly massive. It is a hydrous silicate of cerium and allied metals.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most common device used in Japan is an alcohol detector tube, in which cerite particles coated with chromate are packed.
Nerite
Definition:
(n.) Any mollusk of the genus Nerita.
Example Sentences:
(1) Six marine bacteria which synthesize macromolecular antibiotics were isolated from neritic waters on the French Mediterranean coast, and their frequency recorded over two successive years.
(2) We have begun genetic analysis of the neritic, marine heterotroph Crypthecodinium (Gyrodinium) cohnii by means of motility mutants that show complementation shortly after zygote formation, permitting identification of heterozygotes.
(3) Neurites extended faster on laminin than on collagen, but the P30 nerites were less than half as long as E21 neurites on both substrata.
(4) The medium was satisfactorily used for the investigation of the vertical distribution of bacteria in seawater from the surface to 1,000 m depth of western north Pacific central water as well as the neritic region of Japan.
(5) An ERT supporter has snapped up www.nerit.gr, and is using it to broadcast - wait for it - the latest signal from ERT itself, as it continues to defy closure: Photograph: www.nerit.gr Yiannis Î’aboulias (@YiannisBab) Greek government was going to rename #ERT as Nerit.
(6) GW 6.40pm BST In something of a blunder, it appears the Greek government failed to register the domain name for its new, slimmed-down broadcaster, New Hellenic Radio Internet and Television, or NERIT.
(7) The evidence strongly supports the neritic or estuarine origin and habitat for V. parahaemolyticus.
(8) A quantitative capillary assay is described for measuring chemoreception in the neritic and littoral unicellular alga Dunaliella tertiolecta.
(9) Distribution of bacteria in oceanic and neritic seawater was determined using the membrane filter method.
(10) The comparative ultrastructural analysis of the digestive tubules of mussels sampled in a strongly hydrocarbons polluted neritic area and in another one reputed unpolluted, revealed important adulterations in the first one, namely that cells of digestive tubules and hyalinocytes within digestive gland display "neoplastic" disorders.