(n.) A species to fresh-water fish of the Cyprinidae or Carp family. The common European species is Leuciscus cephalus; the cheven. In America the name is applied to various fishes of the same family, of the genera Semotilus, Squalius, Ceratichthys, etc., and locally to several very different fishes, as the tautog, black bass, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sausage chubs were then vacuum packaged and stored at 4 degrees C for 2 months.
(2) We found selenium dixoide an effective antagonist to the toxic effects of mercuric chloride in the northern creek chub (Semotilus atromaculatus).
(3) Examination of chub revealed that both species showed low establishment and growth rates, differing markedly from British field data, where chub is apparently one of the most important hosts, and preventing further meaningful experiments.
(4) Grey reef sharks were the most common predator, followed by whitetip reef sharks and black trevally, while the plant-eating fish were dominated by chubs, unicornfish and whitebar surgeonfish.
(5) We investigated 39 fish species (eel, brown trout, chub, carp bream, roach, perch, pike etc.)
(6) The procedure was successfully applied to samples of Lake Michigan chubs containing residues of PCB's and the DDT group and to extracts of human serum fortified with Aroclors and the DDT group.
(7) Heat destruction of types B and E Clostridium botulinum spores on whitefish chubs was observed to be dependent upon the relative humidity (RH) in the chamber in which fish were heated.
(8) From October 1985 until July 1987, the seasonal dynamics of Rhabdochona denudata in its principal definitive host, the chub (Leuciscus cephalus), was studied in the Rokytná River (the Danube basin), Czechoslovakia.
(9) The Cd concentrations of Chaoborus in Chub Lake were lowest during the summer, which coincided with the fastest growth of the organisms.
(10) Chub injected in the loin muscle with 10(6)Clostridium botulinum type E spores were smoked to an internal temperature of 180 F (82.2 C) for 30 min, sealed in plastic bags, and incubated at room temperature (20 to 25 C) for 7 days.
(11) Chub and eels were experimentally infected via intermediate hosts harbouring cystacanths, with Pomphorhynchus laevis alone, or Acanthocephalus anguillae alone, or simultaneously with mixtures of both species in varying proportions, and sampled at 7, 56 or 112 days post-infection.
(12) Karyological investigations on the common carp (Cyprinus carpio) and chub (Leuciscus cephalus) are described.
(13) All three species of Chaoborus (C. punctipennis, C. trivittatus, C. flavicans) found in Chub Lake (south-central Ontario), were analyzed seasonally.
(14) This study was performed to observe the infection rate and infection intensity of fresh water fish such as pale chub (Z. platypus) and dark chub (Z. temminckii) with the metacercariae of C. armatus.
(15) Chromosomal studies on the chub revealed the diploid chromosome complement to be 50, with 34 meta- to submetacentric chromosomes, 16 subtelo- to telocentric chromosomes, and an arm number of 84.
(16) The diet of the chub included mayfly nymphs at all seasons.
(17) The agency believes recent restorations have attracted more visitors to riverbanks and nearby parks, as well as leading to a reduction in antisocial behaviour, the return of fish such as chub and dace, and birdlife, such as kingfishers.
(18) The chromosomes of five species of Pisces, viz common carp, chub, tench, grass carp and catfish, were investigated.
(19) The pineal organ and retina were compared in developing charr and cisco, further in adult cisco, eel, creek chub, dace, zebrafish and black moli by opsin immunocytochemistry.
(20) Smoked whitefish chubs, containing from one to several hundred spores each, were examined for toxin content after storage at 5, 10, 15, and 28 C for as long as 32 days.
Plump
Definition:
(adv.) Well rounded or filled out; full; fleshy; fat; as, a plump baby; plump cheeks.
(n.) A knot; a cluster; a group; a crowd; a flock; as, a plump of trees, fowls, or spears.
(a.) To grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped.
(a.) To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
(a.) To give a plumper. See Plumper, 2.
(v. t.) To make plump; to fill (out) or support; -- often with up.
(v. t.) To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily; as, to plump a stone into water.
(v. t.) To give (a vote), as a plumper. See Plumper, 2.
(a. & v.) Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.
Example Sentences:
(1) My grandfather was a coal miner and Nana was rather plump and bossy.
(2) Their current Westminster tally is strikingly close, too, to the 45% of the constituency vote that gave Alex Salmond his great Holyrood landslide in 2011, and indeed to the 44% who tell ICM in Friday’s survey that they would plump for the nationalists if there were a fresh ballot for their local Holyrood seat.
(3) Some plump for Your Love , with its distinctive keyboard figure that subsequently turned up both on Candi Staton and the Source's endlessly reissued and covered 1991 hit You Got The Love and, of all things, psychedelic rock band Animal Collective's My Girls.
(4) The company had originally plumped for the name Fox Group, but announced its change of mind in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
(5) Approximately 40% of the plump, spindle-shaped cells that formed the background stroma of these tumors possessed the antigen; however, it was not present on giant cells.
(6) For alkaline phosphatase and adenosine triphosphatase particularly, positive cells and negative cells coexisted, as in the large plump cells of synovial sarcoma.
(7) Sclerosed areas with scarce and plump villi as well as sometimes hyperplastic and polymorphous synovial cell layers could be demonstrated histologically in the tissue specimens of the needle biopsies in cases with gout.
(8) But soon Gontar would see the same plump women and the same injured men appearing in different newscasts, identified as different people.
(9) There are queues at communal water tanks and the irrigated fields plump with crops abruptly give way to hard-baked soil forced to sit fallow.
(10) More peripherally there is a cellular zone containing elongated or plump tumor cells embedded in a fibromyxoid stroma.
(11) The mediastinal milky spots were generally covered with plump mesothelial cells with hemidesmosome-like structures in small projections of the cytoplasm, and consisted mainly of clusters of lymphocytes, macrophages and fibroblasts.
(12) This Week host Andrew Neil predicted 12 million for the leaders' debate, while regular sofa sidekick Michael Portillo plumped for 6 million – so that one goes to Neil, narrowly.
(13) ('Bulkiness' is the average cross-sectional area, or 'plumpness', of a side-chain.)
(14) Melanocytomas are pigmented tumors of the uvea and optic nerve head composed of plump polyhedral melanocytes which have been regarded as nevus cells.
(15) It can snatch a creature as small as a beetle or as bulky as a duck, but its favourite food on high moors is a plump little bird greatly prized by game shooters: the red grouse.
(16) One reader chose Zoë Heller's The Believers, about the dysfunctional Litvinoff family, another plumped for Sue Miller's While I Was Gone, in which a woman is forced to confront the murder of her best friend 30 years ago, a third pointed readers towards Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake, about an Indian boy growing up in America.
(17) Biopsy showed collagenous stroma containing spindle cells and irregular trabeculae of woven bone rimmed by plump osteoblasts.
(18) Of particular interest is a number of tumor cells with plump, bizarre nuclei which contain cross-striations of skeletal muscle pattern.
(19) The tumor cells were uniform in appearance, plump and polyhedral, with distinct finely granular eosinophilic cytoplasm, and were arranged in solid acinar groups.
(20) And here’s a statistic that should terrify anyone who leans to the left: nearly nine out of 10 Austrian manual workers plumped for the far right.