(n.) A peculiar East Indian mammal (Galleopithecus volans), having along the sides, connecting the fore and hind limbs, a parachutelike membrane, by means of which it is able to make long leaps, like the flying squirrel; -- called also flying lemur.
Example Sentences:
(1) Until such puzzles are resolved, the possible but doubtful existence of entotympanics in plesiadapoids and inferred pre-primate ancestors cannot buttress claims for alleged ties between primates and certain entotympanic-bearing eutherians (principally bats, colugos and tree shrews).
Parachute
Definition:
(n.) A contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon, or any eminence.
(n.) A web or fold of skin which extends between the legs of certain mammals, as the flying squirrels, colugo, and phalangister.
Example Sentences:
(1) Kiev said the jets were downed by a missile launched from Russian territory , and that the pilots had parachuted out.
(2) Two dogs, Dezik and Tsygan, survived a sub-orbital flight after their capsule parachuted them back to earth.
(3) A substantial percentage of female parachutists could not exert the maximum ripcord release pull force permitted by the relevant parachute specification.
(4) Eyewitnesses said the driver was wearing a black beret, indicating that he was not a member of the Parachute Regiment.
(5) At lower concentration, "parachute" and "butterfly" structures composed of two Hc molecules and one monoclonal immunoglobin G (IgG) molecule were obtained.
(6) Then the parachute unfurled and guided the vehicle to an ocean splashdown about three hours later.
(7) Welsh, but London-based, Jones's real offence to leftwingers - heirs to Nye Bevan - was to be a Blairite, "parachuted" into Blaenau Gwent.
(8) Dan Jarvis is Labour MP for Barnsley Central and a former officer in the Parachute Regiment
(9) The echocardiographic features recorded in a patient with a congenital anomaly, single papillary muscle (parachute mitral valve), were identical with those seen in patients with idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis (IHSS).
(10) Fifty-nine freefall parachutists completed a survey which dealt with parachuting experience, levels of perceived stress, sources of stress, episodes of altered consciousness, and use of hypnotic techniques in preparation for freefall.
(11) Hollande was parachuted into Corrèze shortly after his mentor, François Mitterrand, was elected in 1981.
(12) According to the newspaper, special forces personnel from the Royal Navy's Submarine Parachute Assistance Group were carrying out training jumps into the sea when the vessel approached.
(13) Ban’s spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, told reporters: “He hopes that a credible and thorough review will clarify the events and help prevent future recurrences.” Turkmen militiamen in Syria claimed to have shot the pilots as they descended on parachutes from the stricken Su-24 bomber.
(14) The anomalies involving the mitral valve were classified into 4 groups according to the different components of the valve: A) specimens with anomalies of the leaflets--2 cases with mitral cleft; B) those with anomalies of the commissures--1 case with a mitral gap; C) those with abnormalities of the chordae tendinae--2 cases of malattachment of the chordae tendinae to the ventricular septum and 2 with bridging chordae between the papillary muscles; and D) those with abnormalities of the papillary muscles--5 cases with a parachute valve, 10 with a "form fruste" of the parachute mitral valve (hypoplasia of one papillary muscle and short chordae tendinae) and 2 with abnormally placed papillary muscles, which reached the pulmonary annulus.
(15) RBS's share price was just 9p when he arrived in January 2009, three months after Hester had been parachuted into replace Sir Fred Goodwin .
(16) The other, who appeared to have deployed an emergency parachute, was airlifted to a hospital with serious injuries.
(17) A year ago it had reported a $4.2bn profit but since then Winters has been parachuted in to replace Peter Sands as chief executive .
(18) There had been parallels with Munich to all this, the Londoners parachuted into enemy territory with the vast majority hostile within a heaving crowd, though there was to be no magical finale.
(19) An attempt to evaluate parachute-drop related stress by determining the blood lipid profile (cholesterol, LDL, HDL, apo-A, apo-B, and triglycerides) is reported.
(20) One is how, when parachuted behind enemy lines, he landed on a cactus bush and was horribly injured.