(n.) A cephalopod of the genus Sepia, having an internal shell, large eyes, and ten arms furnished with denticulated suckers, by means of which it secures its prey. The name is sometimes applied to dibranchiate cephalopods generally.
(n.) A foul-mouthed fellow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Whether Philip Hammond is soft snow or a spurting cuttlefish is difficult to say.
(3) The diets were presented for periods of 2 to 11 weeks to octopuses, cuttlefishes or squids and in most trials the results were compared to animals fed control diets of live marine shrimps, crabs or fish.
(4) The sex differenciation in the gonad of the cuttlefish is only evident after the hatching, -- the "A" cells become spermatogonia or ovogonia.
(5) The content of polyunsaturated fatty acids in lipids of Bartram and Comandor squids and cuttlefish comprises 47.59-49.84%.
(6) In unilaterally blinded octopus and cuttlefish, the optic lobe of the deprived side showed a decreased uptake of the labelled tracer.
(7) The search for it in squids and cuttlefishes led to the discovery of the giant nerve fibres.
(8) When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.'
(9) These studies have been carried out on the cerebellum and some other regions in a variety of species that include rat, turtle, skate and an intervertebrate, the cuttlefish.
(10) While their double-shelled relations (clams, mussels, oysters, scallops, etc) specialise in filtering water to remove food particles, and their single-shelled little cousins (periwinkles, whelks, limpets, conches) specialise in, well, adorning a seafood platter, cephalopods (octopus, cuttlefish and squid) specialise in a seriously impressive form of self-defence.
(11) With an arginine content of about 77%, cuttlefish protamine is one of the most basic proteins which have ever been characterized and the first typical protamine sequenced in invertebrates.
(12) We stopped for lunch at Flor do Arneiro (Sitio Arneiro 260, +351 289 815 287) in Arneiro near Faro, a fine restaurant serving cataplana (a dish of cuttlefish, clams and onions), where Don Chumbhino gave us some recipes for the dishes we were eating.
(13) Experimental foods were smoked cuttlefish (sectile food), raisins (food flattened under pressure), and peanuts (crushable food).
(14) Effects of noradrenaline and the related compounds adrenaline, dopamine, octopamine, tyramine, clonidine and isoprenaline were studied in isolated heart preparations from the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis L. 2.
(15) Without head orientation, the cuttlefish still rotates with its fins.
(16) The musculature of the fins of the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis (Mollusca, Cephalopoda) was studied with electromyography to test predictions of the functional role of the various muscle masses.
(17) The blood-brain interface was studied in a cephalopod mollusc, the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis, by thin-section electron microscopy.
(18) The predatory behaviour of the cuttlefish comprises several stages: prey-detection, orientation, translation and prey-seizing.
(19) The tetra-, tri-, di-, mono-, and nonacetylated forms of cuttlefish H4 represent 2, 6.4, 18, 32.2, and 41.4% of the whole histone, respectively.
(20) In cuttlefish, as in selachians and mammals, spermiogenesis is characterized by the double nuclear protein transition histones----intermediate protein (protein T)----protamine (protein Sp).
Sepia
Definition:
(n.) The common European cuttlefish.
(n.) A genus comprising the common cuttlefish and numerous similar species. See Illustr. under Cuttlefish.
(n.) A pigment prepared from the ink, or black secretion, of the sepia, or cuttlefish. Treated with caustic potash, it has a rich brown color; and this mixed with a red forms Roman sepia. Cf. India ink, under India.
(a.) Of a dark brown color, with a little red in its composition; also, made of, or done in, sepia.
Example Sentences:
(1) The assumption is made that, for eumelanins, there is only one nitrogen atom per monomeric unit, and thus, the empirical formula for the average monomeric Sepia melanin backbone chromophore was determined.
(2) In an earlier communication, we have presented the results of our study on in vitro interaction of bleomycin with collagens of sepia, fish and rat skins using spectrophotometry.
(3) Studies with radiolabelled polyethylene glycol (PEG4000) and EDTA show that the Sepia blood-brain barrier is as tight as the endothelial barrier of mammals.
(4) To add effects to a photo, select one from the menu - sepia, film reel - and swipe upwards to the photo from the icon representing that effect.
(5) This antiserum recognizes a 44 kDa (G alpha) and a 36 kDa (G beta) protein band from Sepia photosensory membrane preparation.
(6) The only catecholamines found present in nervous tissue of Eledone, Octopus and Sepia were dopamine and noradrenaline.
(7) A modification of the Oldendorf arterial injection technique is used to show that glucose transport at the Sepia barrier is mediated by a Na+-independent hexose carrier resembling that of mammalian red cells and blood-brain barrier.
(8) The effect of an intravenous injection of squid-ink (sepia-melanin) solution on adult mouse spheroid alveolar epithelial cells was observed by the electron microscope.
(9) Among them there were Todarodes pacificus, Ommastrephes bartrami, Berrytenthis magester, Sepia officinalis.
(10) A new technique using a stimulating chronically-implanted electrode has allowed us to study the motor responses induced by electrical stimulation of the optic lobe in a freely swimming Sepia.
(11) Effects of noradrenaline and the related compounds adrenaline, dopamine, octopamine, tyramine, clonidine and isoprenaline were studied in isolated heart preparations from the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis L. 2.
(12) Mackay had a difficult conversation with David Cameron , and subsequently appeared on TV with a sepia tan and embarrassed, bulging eyes.
(13) The musculature of the fins of the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis (Mollusca, Cephalopoda) was studied with electromyography to test predictions of the functional role of the various muscle masses.
(14) In contrast, at one week after injection of squid-ink solution, almost all alveolar macrophages were degenerated with destruction of the ectoplasm in which the ingested sepia-melanin particles were digested by lysosomes into fine particles, and the mitochondria of spheroid alveolar epithelial cells were degenerated and the inclusion bodies were hardly formed.
(15) The blood-brain interface was studied in a cephalopod mollusc, the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis, by thin-section electron microscopy.
(16) The HSA results further confirm that the Sepia blood-brain interface is relatively tight to proteins.
(17) The blood-brain barrier in the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis has been studied with the freeze-fracture technique.
(18) Most of all, however, Dingell mourned the sepia-toned era when Democrats and Republicans actually worked together.
(19) Tyrosine-enzymatic and Sepia melanin are quite similar and tyrosine-chemical melanin is fundamentally different from the other two melanins.
(20) They reached the quarter-finals of the 1958 World Cup but had never been in the semi-finals of a major tournament and the challenge was to surpass those sepia-tinted images.