What's the difference between coastal and mummichog?
Coastal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a coast.
Example Sentences:
(1) One of the main users is coastal planning organizations and conservation organizations that are working on coral reefs.
(2) Nearly four months into the conflict, rebels control large parts of eastern Libya , the coastal city of Misrata, and a string of towns in the western mountains, near the border with Tunisia.
(3) Trout fishing is excellent in both, and after they fall over the edge of the Piedmont Plateau to the Atlantic Coastal Plain, the lower stretches of both waterways boil into class-2 and -3 whitewater for kayakers and canoeists.
(4) Endless utilitarian apartment blocks and gigantic hotels sprawl seemingly at random in the so-called "coastal cluster".
(5) Mary and Gerry Menke from the small coastal community of Mallacoota in far eastern Victoria were among the 298 people who died when the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 was downed over insurgent-held eastern Ukraine on 17 July.
(6) He said a two-and-half-year analysis by the government's Foresight programme on the implications for coastal defences had more impact in the corridors of power than any other research on the effects of climate change that he presented.
(7) This lovely coastal route also gives you an excuse to hop on the Skye ferry, which plies its way over the narrows to Kylerhea from the start of this walk.
(8) If coastal ice shelves buttressing the west Antarctic ice sheet continue to disintegrate, the sheet could disgorge into the ocean, raising sea levels by several metres in a century.
(9) Nevertheless, Ansar al-Sharia and other Islamist militia have bases elsewhere in eastern Libya, notably around the coastal city of Derna, known across the region as a major recruitment centre for fighters who joined the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.
(10) A spokesman for the Met Office said: "We have had such heavy and persistent rainfall over the last few days and weeks and that there is a danger of landslides and rockfall along the coast, even on coastal paths.
(11) Reports from the scenes of Muslim Brotherhood and Freedom and Justice Party rallies conveyed a dour mood in Cairo, while active clashes were reported in both coastal cities and upper Egypt.
(12) "Heat stress, extreme precipitation, inland and coastal flooding, as well as drought and water scarcity pose risks in urban areas, with risks amplified for those lacking essential infrastructure and services or living in exposed areas," says the report, which makes this forecast with "very high confidence".
(13) The following summer, the coastal city Qidong scrapped a pipeline plan after about a thousand protesters stormed government offices and overturned cars.
(14) Other stranded schemes include a £9m alleviation scheme for Exeter, Devon, and coastal defences at Folkestone, Kent (£22m) and Lyme Regis, Dorset (£15m).
(15) 2) with different dietary concentrations of Mg and K. In each experiment, eight 500-ml continuous culture fermentors were supplied with late-cut coastal bermuda grass (80%) and cellulose (20%) as substrate during five trials with two levels of Mg (.07 and .14%), K (.6 and 2.5%) and either monensin (Exp.
(16) The children had been identified in a cross-sectional survey of two coastal areas: Lake Munmorah (LM), within 5 km of two power stations, and Nelson Bay (NB), free from major industry.
(17) The caries prevalence was higher in the coastal cities in the south.
(18) Paddle on the Riviera Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A half-hour walk from the tiny railway station at Cap d’Ail in the Alpes-Maritimes, a coastal footpath runs underneath a line of art nouveau and art deco villas and round a headland before Mala Plage comes into view.
(19) The need for simple, fast and inexpensive tests to study metal pollution in the marine environment has become more pressing as utilization of coastal waters increases.
(20) White-tailed deer harbored 19 species of parasites; all were typical of the parasite fauna of this species in coastal regions of the southeastern United States.
Mummichog
Definition:
(n.) Any one of several species of small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus, and of allied genera; the killifishes; -- called also minnow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Freshwater adapted mummichogs (Fundulus heteroclitus) were exposed to cadmium.
(2) Additionally, they suggest that the mummichog may be a useful indicator of exposure to carcinogens in aquatic environments.
(3) Male mummichogs had 12-hr cycles in serum 17 beta-hydroxy-4-androstene-3,11-dione levels, the peaks of which preceded high tide by 4 hr.
(4) Slight sex differences were observed in the sensitivity of mummichogs to each of the OP insecticides with male fish being marginally more sensitive.
(5) Bihourly sampling of field populations during a 72-hr period at the new moon showed both diel cycling and an upward trend in serum progesterone levels in female mummichogs.
(6) Embryos of the mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus) were allowed to develop in culture dishes in which CCA-treated or untreated wood was soaking.
(7) The expression of cytochrome P450IA1 was examined in hepatic lesions of mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus), a small, non-migratory teleost fish collected from a site in the Elizabeth River, VA, heavily contaminated with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) of creosote origin.
(8) The acute toxicity of two organophosphorus (OP) insecticides, azinphosmethyl and acephate, was evaluated in the mummichog, Fundulus heteroclitus.
(9) High prevalences of idiopathic hepatic lesions were found in mummichog, Fundulus heteroclitus, from a site in the southern branch of the Elizabeth River, VA, contaminated with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
(10) The effects of several steroids on the maturation of follicle-enclosed oocytes of the mummichog Fundulus heteroclitus in vitro were examined.
(11) These findings indicate a strong positive association between exposure to creosote-contaminated sediments and the high prevalence of hepatic neoplasms in a feral population of mummichog and support the putative role of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in fish hepatocarcinogenesis.
(12) Mean concentrations of PCB's increased in the clapper rail, remained the same in the fiddler crab and mud snail, and decreased in the sheepshead minnow, mummichog, striped killifish, and salt marsh snail.
(13) The mummichog appears to be extremely well suited for monitoring environmental cadmium poisoning.
(14) A model is proposed to explain the reproductive cycle of male mummichogs.
(15) In the present study, mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus L.) were collected from two sites in the Elizabeth River, VA that are heavily contaminated with PAH, and from a relatively unpolluted reference site in the York River, VA.
(16) Daily collections of the mummichog, Fundulus heteroclitus, from field populations during the first 45 days of the breeding season revealed a semilunar cycle in the sperm index.