(n.) Any species of sea duck of the genus Somateria, esp. Somateria mollissima, which breeds in the northern parts of Europe and America, and lines its nest with fine down (taken from its own body) which is an article of commerce; -- called also eider duck. The American eider (S. Dresseri), the king eider (S. spectabilis), and the spectacled eider (Arctonetta Fischeri) are related species.
Example Sentences:
(1) They're partial to the odd eider duck and do lots of nifty fish-plucking from the waves.
(2) No significant difference in P. botulus abundance was found between eiders taken alive and those collected dead from the shore line, or between adult males and adult females.
(3) Specimens of female and male eider (Somateria mollissima) were collected in Svalbard.
(4) Eider ducks showed clear tidal and seasonal cycles of display when involved in pair-formation behaviour.
(5) Captive eiders were used to determine the developmental rate of female P. botulus and the percentage of administered cystacanths which established in the intestine.
(6) The eider duck (Somateria mollissima), although a short-distance migrating bird whose diet is composed mainly of mussels and crustaceans, and which lives along a great part of the Swedish coastline, is suggested as a biomonitor of cadmium for the aquatic environment.
(7) Oxygen consumption (VO2), body temperature (TB) and electric muscle activity (EMG) were measured at varying ambient temperatures (TA) in common eider ducklings from the eggs pipped to 1 day after hatching.
(8) Outbreaks of avian cholera (Pasteurella multocida) occur frequently in common eiders (Somateria mollissima dresseri) in Maine during early summer.
(9) Incubating female eiders lost their infection in almost all cases, suggesting that a seasonal pattern of infection must also occur in these birds.
(10) The lipophilic components of choline phosphoglycerides and ethanolamine phosphoglycerides obtained from the salt gland of herring gull and eider duck and from the rectal gland of spiny dogfish were investigated by means of thin-layer chromatography, gas chromatography, and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.
(11) The significance of these changes for the scaling of thermoregulatory heat generation in the newly hatched eider duckling is discussed.
(12) Seriously damaged eider ducks (Somateria mollissima) and long-tailed ducks (Clangula hyemalis) were shot in connection with an oil spill in 1974.
(13) The technique is illustrated for eider ducks, using data from Coulson (1984, Ibis 126, 525-543).
(14) DDE, PCBs, and mercury residues were highest in cormorant and petrel, intermediated in alcids, and lowest in eider and tern.
(15) The female eider fasts completely from the start of egg laying to the end of hatching.
(16) The abundance of Profilicollis botulus was monitored in eider ducks for 3 years.
(17) Eiders in their first winter had P. botulus abundances which were approximately 10 times that of adult eiders, but by the following summer the abundance had declined to that found in adults.
(18) The identification of the species was verified by the examination of co-types and specimens from eider ducks, Somateria mollissima (L.), from Scotland and oldsquaw, Clangula hyemalis (L.), from New Brunswick.
(19) Specimens of male and brooding female eider (Somateria mollissima) were collected in Svalbard.
(20) Organochlorine and mercury concentrations are reported for 252 eggs of Leach's storm-petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa), double-crested cormorant (Phalarocorax auritus), common eider (Somateria mollissima), common tern (Sterna hirundo), razorbill (Alca torda), common murre (Uria aalge) black guillemot (Cepphus grylle), and Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) from the Bay of Fundy, the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and the open Atlantic shore of Canada during 1970-76.
Ender
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, makes an end of something; as, the ender of my life.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ender nails as well as three forms of interlocking nails, Brooker-Wills (B-W), Klenm-Schellman (K-S), and Grosse-Kempf (G-K), were implanted in cadaver femora.
(2) It constitutes an alternative to Ender nailing, screw-plate, and nail-plate.
(3) In basocervical and pertrochanteric fractures of younger patients a dynamic hip screw will be performed; in older patients we use elastic nails described by Simon-Weidner and Ender with good success.
(4) Between 1976 and 1987 at the Surgical Department of the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, 671 fractures of the trochanteric region of the femur were treated by Ender nailing.
(5) "The problem is that, in the US and UK, most people who want to sign up for Facebook have already done it," said new media specialist Ian Maude at Enders Analysis.
(6) By now, those described, not entirely accurately, as “pro-Russian separatists” largely comprise desperate bitter-enders, who increasingly fear – with justification – that Moscow has hung them out to dry.
(7) One of the big difficulties, Enders said, is where to house the unquantifiable liabilities arising out of the phone-hacking scandal that led to the abrupt closure of the News of the World last summer.
(8) The Ender method has advantages over existing operative methods, in that in our series the infection rate was zero and we found that the operation produced less shock.
(9) The other member was fixed with either Ender rods or a Zickel nail.
(10) The authors report the clinical and radiographic results obtained in the treatment of 138 patients with pertrochanteric fractures of the neck of the femur by Ender's elastic nail.
(11) Douglas McCabe, a media analyst at Enders Analysis, said traditional media companies that initially dismissed BuzzFeed as just "cats on skateboards" were already concerned about its ability to generate huge amounts of traffic and move in on the serious news agenda.
(12) Last month, two companies - Enders and PwC - both revised down growth figures for 2008 for online advertising .
(13) But the East Ender will not compete over the one lap in Daegu, while the runner-up – Shana Cox – only qualifies for a British passport from November of this year and so all three British places are up for grabs as the selectors meet to decide who will travel to South Korea this summer.
(14) Enders, who has long battled against political interference at EADS, said: "We want to create a company that is even more successful internationally and attracts investors.
(15) Enders often becomes "a participant rather than just an observer" in big deals, says David Moody, director of strategy at BBC Worldwide.
(16) The Ender method consists of insertion of round, flexible, condylocephalic intramedullary nails.
(17) In particular, Enders is critical of newspaper companies - including the Guardian Media Group (which publishes this newspaper), News International and Trinity Mirror - that have collectively spent hundreds of millions replacing printing presses.
(18) Yeah, you 'eard: in true 'Enders style it turns out they're not brother and sister, but ma and son.
(19) Of 100 patients with a peritrochanteric fracture of the femur treated by the Ender technique, we reviewed the cases of seventy-nine after an average follow-up of 11.4 months in order to clarify the indications for the procedure and investigate variables that may affect the results.
(20) During the past decade, Enders has built up an enviable reputation for outspoken and contrarian analysis of the prospects for technology, telecoms and media across Europe.