(n.) A small European rodent of the genus Myoxus, of several species. They live in trees and feed on nuts, acorns, etc.; -- so called because they are usually torpid in winter.
Example Sentences:
(1) The oxytocinergic innervation of the brain of the garden dormouse (Eliomys quercinus L.) was studied by means of immunocytochemistry.
(2) During the hibernation period, the epiphyseal catecholamine charge is well detected in the garden dormouse; it appears more important in darkened animals at 22 degrees C and much less in animals under continuous lighting.
(3) A very dense innervation was also seen in the caudal regions of the garden dormouse brain; these regions are already known to have a relatively dense oxytocin fibre network in the rat.
(4) The hibernating garden dormouse is spontaneously hypophagic during the prehibernating period at which time we found a low peripheral sympathetic activity (S.A.).
(5) Obvious differences between experimental groups have not been observed, and the results presented here must be considered as general features of the garden dormouse posterior pituitary.
(6) After 6-h phase shifts, the 'asymmetry effect' was opposite in the two nocturnal rodents, the hamster and the dormouse.
(7) The quotation was taken from "What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry" by John Markoff.
(8) The relationships between food intake self-selection and liver substrates (glycogen, fat) or activities of pyruvate kinase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, malic enzyme, acetyl CoA carboxylase, glucose-6-phosphatase and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase were determined during the spontaneous variations of body weight in the dormouse.
(9) The reviewer gave me two stars, the same day I got a tweet off the rabbit asking if he could bring the Mad Hatter and the Dormouse to my show.
(10) The distribution of vasopressin in the brain of the garden dormouse (Eliomys quercinus L.) was examined by immunocytochemistry at different times of the year.
(11) The follicular epithelium of dormouse thyroid consists of two distinct cellular types, follicular and parafollicular cells.
(12) The ultrastructure of the chief neurosecretory nuclei, supraoptic, (SON), parventricular, (PVN) and infundibular (IN), of the dormouse (Eliomys quercinus L.) has been studied during active and hibernating states.
(13) These results indicate that: (a) the BAT exerts a pre-eminent role in the physiological response to cold of garden dormouse, (b) a certain non-shivering thermogenesis (NST) is present in the liver of such species.
(14) In the male edible dormouse, it has been proposed that the annual temperature cycle is the major external factor triggering annual biological rhythms in this hibernating species.
(15) In garden dormouse protein deficiency leads to reversible hypothermic torpor, comparable with that provoked by starvation or occuring naturally during hibernation, whether the diet consists wholly of apples or of synthetic protein-free food.
(16) Migratory birds including the whitethroat , reed warbler and song thrush are arriving earlier, three species of Japanese amphibians have been found to be breeding earlier, while the edible dormouse has been emerging earlier from hibernation by an average of eight days per decade.
(17) The effect of insulin on U-14C-glucose oxidation by adipose tissue isolated from hibernating or arousing edible dormouse has been studied.
(18) The kidney lymphatic system of bat, dormouse and marmot consists of intraparenchymal (interlobar, arcuate, interlobular) and extraparenchymal (capsular) vessels sharing common ultrastructural aspects.
(19) Glucagon secretion was regulated by glucose (inhibitory effect) and by arginine (stimulating effect) up to 25 degrees C. The effect of temperature and glucagon on oxygen uptake of hibernating edible dormouse brown fat was studied using an in vitro technique.
(20) We studied 20 garden dormouses (Eliomys quercinus), 10 of which had hibernated.
Flamingo
Definition:
(n.) Any bird of the genus Phoenicopterus. The flamingoes have webbed feet, very long legs, and a beak bent down as if broken. Their color is usually red or pink. The American flamingo is P. ruber; the European is P. antiquorum.
Example Sentences:
(1) I Only Have Eyes for You – The Flamingos Or, to the armchair grammarian, "I Have Eyes Only for You".
(2) Mara And Dann, An Adventure, is published by Flamingo at £16.99 Life at a glance Doris May Lessing Born: October 22, 1919; Kermanshahan, Persia (now Iran).
(3) Nearby are two wildlife refuges where flamingos and pelican nest.
(4) In three flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber), which died showing extensive necrotic inflammation of the skin of the webs and the legs, the presence of abundant mycelium and arthrospores was shown in the altered dermis and epidermis.
(5) The nesting flamingos and moulting grebes from the same water body were also infected to a great extent with these cestodes.
(6) Tina Baier, Süddeutsche Zeitung France Facebook Twitter Pinterest Greater flamingos in the Camargue.
(7) In 1974, 51 debilitated lesser flamingos (Phoeniconaias minor) were easily captured at Lake Nakuru, Kenya.
(8) The English family had the equivalent of more than £1m hidden in FLAMINGO 22, a numbered Swiss account .
(9) They were horrified by my behaviour but my father paid for Pink Flamingos .
(10) The blue–green area to the east is the Salar de Surire, a salt plain containing several lakes with nesting flamingo colonies.
(11) Brandon Flowers – Can’t Deny My Love With the Killers on hiatus following their 2013 Direct Hits compilation, frontman Brandon Flowers has returned to his solo career with the follow-up to his 2010 solo debut, Flamingo .
(12) An aged male roseate flamingo, in a private collection in the British Virgin Islands, was found acutely "down."
(13) Hosts of brightly plumed birds – "flamingos and frigate-birds, falcons and deep-water albatross" – have flocked into the town, and when the narrator leans against a pillar box, trying to straighten his flying suit, an eagle "guarding these never-to-be-collected letters snaps at my hands, as if she has forgotten who I am and is curious to inspect this solitary pilot who has casually stepped off the wind into these deserted streets".
(14) The Water's Edge restaurant has fab views of the Caribbean flamingos, but you can also just grab a bacon butty at one of the snack kiosks dotted about.
(15) No mirage, this really is a desert oasis with warm springs irrigating lawns occasionally dotted with pink plastic flamingoes.
(16) Trace elements (Cd, Cu, Hg, Pb, Se, Zn) were measured in nine organs (liver, kidney, breast muscle, lungs, breastbone, stomach, gizzard, spleen, feathers) of several specimens of Greater Flamingos (Phaenicopterus ruber (Pallas] and Little Egrets (Egretta garzetta (L.] from the Camargue, in the Rhône river delta.
(17) After four days of supportive therapy, the flamingo succumbed.
(18) A comparison with tandemly repeated DNA sequences in other avian species showed that several of these conserved elements were also present at similar locations within the 184-bp repeat of the Chilean flamingo (Phoenicopterus chilensis), suggesting a great antiquity of the repeat.
(19) The impressive bird garden has an important collection of rare and endangered species as well as the more familiar flamingos and snowy owls.
(20) Nearest airport: Lisbon (120km) What to do Take a boat trip around the Sado Estuary nature reserve to spot bottlenose dolphins, flocks of white storks and, in winter, pink flamingos ( nautur.com ).