(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.
River
Definition:
(n.) One who rives or splits.
(n.) A large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook.
(n.) Fig.: A large stream; copious flow; abundance; as, rivers of blood; rivers of oil.
(v. i.) To hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river fowl.
Example Sentences:
(1) With fields and fells already saturated after more than four times the average monthly rainfall falling within the first three weeks of December, there was nowhere left to absorb the rainfall which has cascaded from fields into streams and rivers.
(2) In the far east is the arid, depressed country leading down Hell’s Canyon, which bottoms out at the Snake River, which the wolves crossed when they moved from Idaho, and which they now treat more as a crosswalk than a barrier.
(3) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
(4) Infection level increased sharply in the age-group 6-10 years old among people residing far from the rivers.
(5) Philip Rivers intercepted on a slightly less deep heave in Washington!
(6) That has driven whole river systems to a complete population crash,” said Darren Tansley, a wildlife officer with Essex Wildlife Trust.
(7) Seventy-four strains of Aeromonas hydrophila isolated from water and sediments of the River Porma (León, N.W.
(8) I want to follow the west bank of the river south for some 100 miles to a bluff overlooking the river, where Sitting Bull is buried – and then, in the evening, to return to Bismarck.
(9) Biological monitoring was performed for one year at the site of an orange grove on the left bank of the river.
(10) Comparatively the virus strength sinks more slowly at 4 degrees C in the more mineralized river water (figure 2).
(11) Denni Karlsson and I are standing by a glacial river as it hammers through a rocky gorge.
(12) Masood’s car struck her, throwing her into the river.
(13) So Huck Finn floats down the great river that flows through the heart of America, and on this adventure he is accompanied by the magnificent figure of Jim, a runaway slave, who is also making his bid for freedom.
(14) Expect growing localised tensions around specific watersheds between one ethnic group and another, between farmers and cities, and so forth, he warns: “Rather than India versus Pakistan, it’s Karnataka versus Tamil Nadu over the allocation of a river that is shared between those two states.” The Water Stress Index , produced by UK risk analysis firm Maplecroft, provides an indication where water-related conflicts might be most likely to occur.
(15) The relatively small reservoir and the maintenance of a minimum flow of water on the trunk river means the plant will work on average at barely 40% of its 11,200MW capacity.
(16) Photograph: KHIZR KHAN This sombre, serene oasis overlooking the Potomac river might also prove the graveyard of Donald Trump’s ambitions for the US presidency.
(17) Larval populations from the three rivers were genetically distinct.
(18) Over 40% of fish originated from private fishfarms whereas 20% were of governmental origin (governmental fishfarms, rivers, lakes) and 20% from aquaria.
(19) This polymorphism enabled us to differentiate a Hudson River population from that encountered in the Maine rivers.
(20) In its more loose, common usage, it's a game in which the rivalry has come to acquire the mad, rancorous intensity of a Celtic-Rangers, a Real Madrid-Barcelona, an Arsenal-Tottenham, a River Plate-Boca Juniors.