What's the difference between crabeater and heron?
Crabeater
Definition:
(n.) The cobia.
(n.) An etheostomoid fish of the southern United States (Hadropterus nigrofasciatus).
(n.) A small European heron (Ardea minuta, and other allied species).
Example Sentences:
(1) Ultrastructural study of the Leydig cells of nonbreeding crabeater, leopard and Ross seals showed that three types of cells could be distinguished.
(2) However, the tubules of leopard and Ross seals had more primary and secondary spermatocytes and spermatids than the crabeater seals.
(3) Corticosteroid values in response to brief confinement in a transport cage were compared between rhesus, bonnet, and crabeating macaques before and after they were trained to enter the cage.
(4) Carbohydrate components were investigated in the bronchial glands and goblet cells of two species of seals with different diving habits (Weddell seal, Crabeater seal).
(5) The two species differ in respect of their carbohydrate histochemistry, e.g., the PAS reaction gives only a faint stain at the apical membrane in the bronchial glands of the Weddell seal, whereas in the Crabeater seal several cells give a positive reaction in the entire cytoplasm; or RCA I has only few binding sites at the apical membranes of the bronchial glandular cells of the Weddell seal whereas many cells of Crabeater bronchial glands react strongly positive.
(6) Values for random serum 25-OHD values in seals showed large interspecies differences, the values for Weddell seals being significantly greater than for Crabeater seals (P less than 0.01).
(7) Spleens of three species of Antarctic seals with different diving habits (Weddell seal, crabeater seal, and fur seal) have been studied with histological, histochemical, and electron microscopic methods.
(8) The intestinal disaccharidase activities of a suckling crabeater seal were investigated.
(9) The fine structure of seminiferous tubules from 5 crabeater, 2 leopard and 2 Ross seals showed that during the nonbreeding season the tubules were essentially similar in possessing spermatogenic and Sertoli cells.
(10) Rhesus showed the smallest adrenocortical response to cage confinement after training and crabeaters the greatest, suggesting that this group habituated more slowly to confinement than the other two groups.
(11) The hearts and ascending aortae of 11 Weddell seals, Leptonychotes weddelli, three adult Crabeater seals, Lobodon carcinophagus, two adult Ross seals, Ommatophoca rossi, and one adult Leopard seal, Hydrurga leptonyx, were examined for comparison with terrestrial forms.
(12) Bonnets took longer to train than rhesus or crabeaters.
(13) The screening assay has been used to identify successfully both heterozygous and homozygous arginase-deficient crabeater macaques (M. fascicularis) as well as three patients with hyperargininemia.
Heron
Definition:
(n.) Any wading bird of the genus Ardea and allied genera, of the family Ardeidae. The herons have a long, sharp bill, and long legs and toes, with the claw of the middle toe toothed. The common European heron (Ardea cinerea) is remarkable for its directly ascending flight, and was formerly hunted with the larger falcons.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pairs of great blue heron eggs were collected from three British Columbia colonies with low, intermediate, and high levels of dioxin contamination: Nicomekl, Vancouver, and Crofton, respectively.
(2) Austrobilharzia terrigalensis from Egretta sacra and Larus novaehollandiae at Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, is described.
(3) Chicks of great blue herons (Ardea herodias) from four heronaries located near South St. Paul, Royalton, and Wabasha, Minnesota, and La Crosse, Wisconsin, were analyzed for organochlorines, Highest mean wet-weight concentrations, 6.43 ppm PCBs.
(4) In many herons and bitterns, only one cecum is present, and in the secretary bird there are two pairs of ceca.
(5) Jake and Dinos Chapman's Hell, Tracey Emin's tent, as well as many other works owned by Charles Saatchi and – saddest of all – a large chunk of the estate of the painter Patrick Heron, were consumed.
(6) The Heron tower, which stands in Bishopsgate next to Liverpool Street station, has just opened, while several other towers are under development, including the Pinnacle, which is also in Bishopsgate.
(7) Richard Thompson, Robyn Hitchcock, Danny Thompson and Dr Strangely Strange will be on hand to play and sing them, as will Heron and Palmer.
(8) The prosobranch snail Planaxis sulcatus is the natural intermediate host of A. terrigalensis at Heron Island.
(9) Freud's exceptional ability to convey tactile information is evident in early drawings, especially those of gorse sprigs, a dead heron and a bearded Christian Bérard in a dressing gown.
(10) Marked differences in levles of viremia were not observed among Black-crowned Night Herons, Great Egrets, or Snowy Egrets.
(11) In the 1950s, Scott was known as a pioneer of abstraction in Britain and exhibited alongside Ben Nicholson, Terry Frost , Victor Pasmore and Patrick Heron .
(12) A new hepadnavirus (designated heron hepatitis B virus [HHBV]) has been isolated; this virus is endemic in grey herons (Ardea cinerea) in Germany and closely related to duck hepatitis B virus (DHBV) by morphology of viral particles and size of the genome and of the major viral envelope and core proteins.
(13) Before Dylan and Jagger cut the ribbon to open our bourgeois-friendly field, Mike Heron, Robin Williamson and Clive Palmer of the Incredible String Band had already snuck in and were happily ensconced in a far corner that few have visited since.
(14) That, at least, is what many people have insisted from antiquity on – while prompting at the same time all kinds of counter-claims that other species share our expression of mirth (monkeys and, most recently, rats being the most common candidates, though there is one suggestion, in an ancient Jewish commentary, that for some reason Aristotle thought herons were laughers too).
(15) These observations suggest that fish frozen in brine is unsuitable food for hand-rearing of young herons.
(16) Because E. tarda and E. agglomerans were the only species isolated from the heron esophagus, the intimate bacterial-worm association in the heron mouth may be due specifically to Achromobacter sp.
(17) And the Olympic torch completed its remarkable journey, the penultimate stage undertaken from Hampton Court to Tower Bridge on the prow of the gilded Gloriana, at the head of a flotilla of rowboats that drew curious glances from the cormorants, herons and great crested grebes in their haunts by Richmond Bridge.
(18) It's home to pelicans, cormorants, herons and dozens of other bird species, along with the carp, trout and eel that end up on the area's dinner plates.
(19) The 30-bed Heron Unit at Feltham Young Offenders Institution is funded by the Conservative mayor and offers prisoners extra support in a bid to curb reoffending after their release.
(20) Brain ChE activity of nestling snowy egrets (Egretta thula) and black-crowned night-herons (Nycticorax nycticorax) collected in one colony each from Rhode Island, Texas and California (USA) also increased significantly with age and did not differ among individuals from different nests or colonies.