(n.) One of a breed of hardy cattle originating in the country of Devon, England. Those of pure blood have a deep red color. The small, longhorned variety, called North Devons, is distinguished by the superiority of its working oxen.
Example Sentences:
(1) Postweaning growth and carcass characters of 110 steers from a complete two-breed diallel of the Devon and Hereford breeds were examined under two environments.
(2) Both are alleged to have plied the Devon girl with drugs, raped her and left her unconscious to drown on Anjuna beach, metres from a bar in which the group had spent the evening drinking.
(3) Eastbourne follows with a 100% rise, and Torquay in Devon's is also high on the list, with an 81% rise in bookings.
(4) I have had to move away from my long-term partner because of the lack of jobs, to a large extent caused by cuts to the public sector in Devon, where it constituted 27% of the workforce.
(5) Other stranded schemes include a £9m alleviation scheme for Exeter, Devon, and coastal defences at Folkestone, Kent (£22m) and Lyme Regis, Dorset (£15m).
(6) For services to the Restoration of Salem Chapel, East Budleigh, Devon.
(7) Sadly, circumstances gave only few occasions to confirm this; they were about to move to Devon.
(8) At this stage nobody can be confident that this has happened.” Among the acute service beds at general hospitals set to be cut are 535 in Derbyshire, 400 each in Devon and West Yorkshire and 30% of all beds in hospitals in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
(9) On the basis of these in vitro data the observed defect in the Devon Rex cats can be fully explained.
(10) For services to the community in Drewsteignton, Devon.
(11) Three bacterial isolates, a Pseudomonas sp., a Bacillus sp., and an Arthrobacter sp., commonly isolated from a hummocky sedge-moss meadow at Devon Island, N.W.T., Canada, were selected for further taxonomic characterization and for a study of the effects of temperature and limiting carbon source on growth.
(12) Rain has caused severe flooding in Cornwall, Devon, Gloucestershire and Worcestershire , with 265 flood warnings and 288 alerts in place covering all regions in England and Wales.
(13) Sid Ward, teacher, 38, Kingsbridge, Devon (now living in Herefordshire) ‘Properties are empty, so the community is empty’ Second homes destroy the fabric of the town and spoil the very things that made it attractive to the second home owner in the first place.
(14) Gránia Fine Bridford, Devon • There are two aspects of current nursing conditions which Jeremy Hunt's pronouncements on training reform fail to address.
(15) Luciana Berger, mental health shadow minister, said Devon had spoken out “openly and honestly about the challenges facing children’s mental health under this Tory government.
(16) There's the mother of a guy who runs a little local garage where we live in Devon who fixes our cars, a family business.
(17) At the very top for GCSE results was Colyton grammar school in Devon, where all 117 GCSE pupils got at least five grades C or higher, including English and maths.
(18) Updated at 2.55pm GMT 11.44am GMT Pilot programs Natural England, Defra and local councils are currently managing six pilot programmes for biodiversity offsetting in: Devon Doncaster Essex Greater Norwich Nottinghamshire Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull The EAC was critical of the uptake in the programmes, which started in 2011, saying that the requirement for developers to opt in meant few measurable results had emerged.
(19) Devon and Cornwall Police said a 20-mile stretch of coastline - 10 miles either side of the 18-year-old's home at Newton Ferrers - has been extensively searched as well as inland areas with the help of a range of groups and emergency services.
(20) Tom Spicer and his sister Kate in the film Mission to Lars Photograph: Misison to Lars And on the big screen, documentary Mission to Lars followed a man with a learning disability as he left his Devon care home on a quest to meet his hero, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich.
Devonian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Devon or Devonshire in England; as, the Devonian rocks, period, or system.
(n.) The Devonian age or formation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Modern lungfish are air-breathing nonmarine forms, yet their Devonian forebears were marine fish that did not breathe air.
(2) The Siluro-Devonian "explosive" colonization of land, and indeed the very evolution of plants, was possible only through such mutualistic partnerships-partnerships that were equipped to cope with the problems of desiccation and starvation associated with terrestrial existence.
(3) The diversity of tetrapods increased from the Devonian to the Permian, remained roughly constant during the Mesozoic, and then began to increase in the late Cretaceous, and continued to do so during the Tertiary.
(4) Sharks are living fossils that are indistinguishable morphologically from their Devonian ancestors of approximately equal to 400 million years ago.
(5) Photograph: University Museum of Zoology Cambridge “It does appear that if there had been a ‘gap’ it was much smaller than previously thought, and might have affected some groups less severely than others,” Clack told me, talking about the disappearance of many species at the end of the Devonian.
(6) This period marks the end of the Devonian, often referred to as the “age of fish”, and the beginning of the Carboniferous.
(7) – Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous … 'What will survive of us is love', wrote Philip Larkin.
(8) The dental plates of the Devonian lungfish Chirodipterus australis Miles (Osteichthyes; Dipnoi) are shown to have achieved their characteristic morphology by a growth process different from that assumed for the plates of genera such as Dipterus.
(9) Recent work on Silurian, Devonian and Carboniferous terrestrial assemblages has provided plausible evidence for all major groups of extant fungi in the Paleozoic.
(10) Fossils dating from the time of origin of tetrapods in the Devonian offer the only hope of understanding the morphological innovations that led to tetrapods; morphological analysis of the "living fossils," the coelacanth and lungfish, only lends confusion.
(11) Here I report the discovery of the stapes of Acanthostega gunnari, from the Upper Devonian of east Greenland.
(12) Late Devonian, c 360 million years ago A messy prolonged climate change event, again hitting life in shallow seas very hard, killing 70% of species including almost all corals.
(13) Evolution of life coincides with the most rapid rate of rise in atmospheric oxygen concentration during Devonian time.
(14) Morphologically, sharks are living fossils that are remarkably similar to their Devonian ancestors of ca.
(15) These, together with the marginal teeth and ridges, have been interpreted as primitive characters of the dipnoan dentition shared with three other genera: the Devonian Uranlophus and Griphognathus and the Carboniferous to Permian Conchopoma.
(16) Devonian vertebrates include a wide range of endemic forms, which provide evidence of more than six distinct biostratigraphic assemblages in South China and five biogeographical realms.
(17) The 51-year-old Devonian mother of two was being wooed by Harold Tillman, the retail magnate who had recently bought the historic British Jaeger clothing brand, over a series of high teas at Claridge's.
(18) Further comparison of the results with similar experimental findings in members of other vertebrate classes supports the notion that several of these same pathways can be traced to even more remote ancestry, with some possibly as old as the entire vertebrate subphylum--dating from the early Devonian or before, perhaps 430 million years ago.
(19) The spatial arrangement of the vertical canals is already present in fossil ostracoderms, and is also exemplified in lampreys, the modern forms of once abundant agnathan species that populated the Silurian and Devonian oceans.
(20) A review of the vertebrates within the Silurian and Devonian of China suggests a more detailed picture of palaeobiogeographical distribution than previously possible.