(n.) A young eel; a young conger or sea eel; -- called also elvene.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sample examined consisted of 417 specimens that were classified by stage (elver, young yellow eel, yellow eel and silver eel) and season of sampling.
(2) The structure of european eels' elvers population, drawn in its natural environment, shows a polymodal frequency distribution of individual weights.
(3) The ability of eels (Anguilla anguilla) to further desaturate and chain elongate linoleic acid, 18:2n-6, was studied by feeding diets containing either corn oil or a fish oil to groups of elvers for 12 wk and analyzing proportions of fatty acids in tissue lipids.
(4) At elver stage VI A1 the myosin isoforms pattern was characterized by at least two isoforms, FM3 and FM2.
(5) The morphology and ultrastructure of the lateral body integument of the leptocephalus, glass eel, pigmented elver, and adult stages of the American eel, Anguilla rostrata, were examined with light and electron microscopy.
(6) Proud to be a "provincial" writer, in his novel Kept (2006) Taylor begins with a bravura passage describing his home county: "A land of winding backroads and creaking carts and windmills, a land of flood, and eels and elvers and all that comes from water, a land of silence and subterfuge, of things not said but only whispered, where much is kept secret which would be better laid open to scrutiny."
(7) It is a myth,” said Hilal Elver, the UN’s special rapporteur on the right to food.
(8) A significant increase was also found in the weight of slow-growing elvers receiving diets containing 40 or 60 ppm T3 and held in the high water turnover system.
(9) Club cells, whose function is unknown, are most numerous in the glass eel and pigmented elver.
(10) Effect of 3,3',5-triiodo-L-thyronine (T3) on survival, growth and body composition (protein, fat and ash) of slow-growing (Anguilla rostrata L.) elvers was investigated.
(11) The proportion of arachidonic acid, 20:4n-6, present in polar lipids of elvers fed the diet containing corn oil increased from an initial value of 5% by weight to 12% by weight; the corresponding value for elvers given a diet containing fish oil, with little linoleic acid in it, was less than 4% by weight.
(12) Over the 12-wk period elvers given both dietary treatments increased in weight by fourfold.
(13) The coelom of elvers (Anguilla anguilla L.), eel0, is contenting glycoproteids, but these are not improvable in following stages of development.
(14) Eels swim back down these rivers to reach spawning grounds at sea and millions of elvers return in the spring.
(15) At least, rearing of the european eels' elvers is possible with a salt water (salinity : 32 p. 1000); this system permits suppress in totality fungi desease (saprolegnia).
(16) A virus belonging to Rhabdovirus anguilla was isolated from elvers imported from the FRG.
(17) This challenge has been exacerbated by a systematic denial, fuelled by the pesticide and agro-industry, of the magnitude of the damage inflicted by these chemicals, and aggressive, unethical marketing tactics.” Elver, who visited the Philippines, Paraguay, Morocco and Poland as part of producing the report, said: “The power of the corporations over governments and over the scientific community is extremely important.
(18) There were no significant differences between the total fat content of slow-growing elvers when compared to the total body fat of control elvers.
(19) They are not present in the pigmented elver and adult which inhabit estuaries and freshwater.
(20) In France, there are few researches carried out on the eel's elvers rearing.
Ever
Definition:
(adv.) At any time; at any period or point of time.
(adv.) At all times; through all time; always; forever.
(adv.) Without cessation; continually.
Example Sentences:
(1) I'm not sure Tolstoy ever worked out how he actually felt about love and desire, or how he should feel about it.
(2) Paradoxically, each tax holiday increases the need for the next, because companies start holding ever greater amounts of their tax offshore in the expectation that the next Republican government will announce a new one.
(3) Men who ever farmed were at slightly elevated risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (odds ratio = 1.2, 95% confidence interval = 1.0-1.5) that was not linked to specific crops or particular animals.
(4) This "paradox of redistribution" was certainly observable in Britain, where Welfare retained its status as one of the 20th century's most exalted creations, even while those claiming benefits were treated with ever greater contempt.
(5) You can't spend more than you take in, and you can't keep doing it for ever and ever and ever.
(6) This is a struggle for the survival of our nation.” As ever, after Trump’s media dressing-down, his operation was quick to fit a velvet glove to an iron fist.
(7) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
(8) Yet those who have remained committed have become ever more angry.
(9) Stress may increase to an intolerable level with the number of tasks, with higher qualified work and due to the lack of familiarity with fellow workers in ever changing settings.
(10) I’ve been at United ever since I was a little boy and I had a great time there.
(11) It was one of a series of deaths of black men – deaths in custody, deaths where no one ever got to the bottom of what had happened.
(12) Fred Goodwin was an accountant and no one ever accused the former chief executive of RBS of consuming mind-alterating substances – unless you count over-inhaling his own ego.
(13) It came in a mix of joy and sorrow and brilliance under pressure, with one of the most remarkable things you will ever see on a basketball court in the biggest moment.
(14) On the first anniversary of Peach's death I took part in my first ever demonstration where we chanted the names of the six SPG officers who were said to have been hitting people with batons on the street where Peach died.
(15) The media's image of a "gamer" might still be of a man in his teens or 20s sitting in front of Call of Duty for six-hour stretches, but that stereotype is now more inaccurate than ever.
(16) Despite this, the public is more suspicious than ever of the danger of pills.
(17) Not that I would ever accept it, but because in doing so they've exposed themselves as the worst kind of tabloid.
(18) It inherited an economy that was growing quite strongly but activity came to an abrupt halt last autumn and has flatlined ever since.
(19) But it should also be noted that this Spurs team might be the best Spurs team ever, and they've had lots of good teams (including four previous championship teams).
(20) "Law is all I've ever wanted to do, but it's so competitive.