(n.) A southern constellation, within which is the south pole of the ecliptic; -- called also sometimes Xiphias, or the Swordfish.
(n.) A large, oceanic fish of the genus Coryphaena.
Example Sentences:
(1) A single specimen, a partially engorged female, of Ixodes brunneus was recovered from a common grackle (Quiscalus quiscula) in Butler County, near El Dorado, Kansas (USA).
(2) The El Dorado Medication Error Tool (EDMET) is objective and simple to use.
(3) Iran is an El Dorado for oil,” said Paolo Scaroni, who when he headed the Italian energy giant Eni met with Iranian oil minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh about potential investments.
(4) Bouchart has long been a fierce critic of immigration policy in the UK, which she said was "considered an El Dorado" by immigrants.
(5) Greece, he said, was set to become an El Dorado for those who did so.
(6) We recently characterized a protein serine-threonine kinase (Pkn1) that is required for normal development (J. Munoz-Dorado, S. Inouye, and M. Inouye, Cell 67:995-1006, 1991).
(7) French champagne at Sherry's Restaurant for the top-hatted Wall Street speculators celebrating the discoveries of El Dorado; shots of five-cent whiskey (said to taste "like a combination of kerosene oil, soft soap, alcohol, and the chemicals used in fire extinguishers") for the unemployed foreign labourer sleeping in the gutters south of Canal Street.
(8) Hotel Posada Freeman, Mazatlán, Sinaloa This 12-storey hotel, built in 1944 on Old Mazatlán’s seafront (and not to be confused with the newer Posada Freeman Zona Dorado), hosted the likes of Rock Hudson and John Wayne while they shot westerns in Mexico.
(9) The content of cadmium and lead was determined in several most popular brands of cigarettes produced in Poland (Carmen, Caro, Extra Mocne, Klubowe, Popularne, Radomskie, Marlboro--produced on the licence of the Philip Morris and in cigarettes imported from Albania (Durres Special, Arberia), Yugoslavia (Jugo) and Cuba (Tobaco Dorado 767, Kim).
(10) One serving intelligence officer told the Guardian: “South Africa is the El Dorado of espionage.” Africa has also become caught up in the US, Israeli and British covert global campaigns to stem the spread of Iranian influence, tighten sanctions and block its nuclear programme.
(11) In the following paper (Muñoz-Dorado, J., Inouye, S., and Inouye, M. (1990) J. Biol.
(12) But what I really liked about being a thief was that every week you might find El Dorado," he said.
(13) In response to a request by the French authorities, there is now direct communication between our officials and migrants to explain to them that there is no El Dorado there [in the UK].
(14) Their father was shot in a dispute over land on a cattle ranch near the Brazilian town of El Dorado, in the Amazonian state of Para.
(15) Free from Fifa red tape, the rebel DiMayor clubs went feral, taking their blackballing as cue to cherry-pick whoever they fancied: the El Dorado era was born.
(16) But isn’t the UK, as the mayor of Calais put it , “El Dorado” for immigrants, with our generous benefits and booming economy?
(17) The gene has been expressed in Escherichia coli by using the lacZ promoter, and its gene product was overproduced (Muñoz-Dorado, J., Inouye, M., and Inouye, S. (1990) J. Biol.
(18) It was raining hard last Saturday morning as four companies of military policemen and a team of plain-clothes intelligence agents - about 150 troops in all - took up positions around the terminal of El Dorado airport.
(19) Doubles from €50 Hotel El Dorado, Carboneras Almería's fortifications.
Xiphias
Definition:
(n.) The constellation Dorado.
(n.) A comet shaped like a sword
(n.) A genus of fishes comprising the common swordfish.
Example Sentences:
(1) n. was recovered from the stomach of Xiphias gladius occurring in the Kuroshio.
(2) The fiber architecture of the ventricular myocardium has been studied in elasmobranch (Isurus oxyrhinchus, Galeorhinus galeus, Prionace glauca) and teleost (Xiphias gladius, Thunnus thynnus, Thunnus alalunga) fish species with hearts displaying mixed types of ventricular musculature (compact and trabecular).