(n.) A constellation of the northern hemisphere east of, or following, Lyra; the Swan.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eight of 9 Mute swans (Cygnus olor) untied in the river acrossing the central part of Tottori-city died within the period of 40 days of summer in 1989.
(2) The mute swan (Cygnus olor), mallard duck (Anas platyrhynchos), common gallinule (Gallinula chloropus), common rhea (Rhea americana), and red-billed hornbill (Tockus erythrorhynchus) were the 5 species most frequently affected of the 1,032 deaths from 1973 through 1983.
(3) His family attended the Cygnus launch from Nasa's Wallops Flight Facility.
(4) Cervical dorsal spondylosis with spinal cord compression in a black swan (Cygnus atratus) was confirmed radiographically and morphologically.
(5) Orbital Sciences launched the Cygnus capsule on this test flight from Virginia on September 18.
(6) During spring 1989, thirty-three whooper swans (Cygnus cygnus) died at Lake Miyajima in Hokkaido, Japan; 15 were examined.
(7) Microfilariae, second-, and third-stage larvae were dissected from 39 of 89 lice infesting whistling swans, Cygnus columbianus columbianus, in North America and mute swans, Cygnus olor, in the Black Sea, U.S.S.R. Infective third-stage larvae obtained from lice collected from heartworm-parasitized whistling swans were injected subcutaneously into each of two hand-reared, nonparasitized mute swan cygnets.
(8) By means of a complex technique some structural and blood supply peculiarities of the valve apparatus have been studied in 118 hearts of 8 representatives of domestic (Anser domesticus, Anas domestica) and wild (Cygnus olor, Cygnus sygnus, Chenopsis atrata, Anser anser, Anas platyrhynchos, Anas strepera) waterfowls.
(9) The digestive gland of the western rock lobster, Panulirus cygnus, was shown to contain phosphatidylarsenocholine and a phosphatidyldimethylarsinylriboside by HPLC ICP-MS examination of lipid materials rendered water-soluble by hydrolysis.
(10) and 10 to 50 swans (Cygnus buccinator and C. columbianus) has remained a mystery for the last ten years in Eagle River Flats (ERF), a 1,000 ha estuarine salt marsh near Anchorage, Alaska, used for artillery training by the U.S. Army.
(11) The successful arrival means the Virginia-based company can begin making good on a $1.9bn contract with Nasa for a series of Cygnus deliveries.
(12) Following the early morning capture, the astronauts worked to install Cygnus – named after the swan constellation – on the space station.
(13) A putative old and ubiquitous interspersed DNA repeat family was identified from TaqI restriction, M13 cloning, and sequencing of the genomic DNA of a Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), a Muscovy Duck (Cairina moschata), a Toulouse Goose (Anser anser), and a Black Swan (Cygnus atratus).
(14) 22, 476-481), of a rather distantly related aves, black swan (Cygnus atratus), suggesting some vital role of this protein in avian eggs.
(15) Applause could be heard in Mission Control once Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano grabbed hold of Cygnus with the space station's hulking mechanical arm.
(16) A species of Actinobacillus was isolated in pure culture from the carcass of a captive Australian black swan (Cygnus atratus) dying of acute septicemia.
(17) A method for the treatment of lead poisoning in mute swans (Cygnus olor) is described.
(18) Mission scientists will use Kepler's 95 megapixel digital camera to survey the brightness of 100,000 stars in the constellations of Cygnus and Lyra every half an hour.
(19) Unlike the SpaceX Dragon that can return items to Earth, the Cygnus is designed to burn up upon descent.
(20) In more than three years surveying 150,000 stars in the constellations of Cygnus and Lyra, Kepler has located 132 planets and more than 2,700 further candidate planets, which will need independent corroboration from other telescopes before they are confirmed hits.