(n.) A child of a European parent on the one side and an Asiatic on the other.
(n.) One born of European parents in Asia.
(a.) Of European and Asiatic descent; of or pertaining to both Europe and Asia; as, the great Eurasian plain.
Example Sentences:
(1) As Russian companies Polymetal, Polyus Gold and Evraz race to join Eurasian Natural Resources as FTSE100 companies, despite their murky practices, because of London's incredibly lax listing requirements, one future scenario is becoming clearer.
(2) The other Eurasian Union is “imaginary”, the brainchild of Putin, first mentioned in October 2011 .
(3) Then, perhaps a couple of decades after the customs union is formed, its members consider creating a true monetary union with a common currency - the Eurasian ruble?
(4) Southern blot analysis of all populations shows that they can be grouped into three classes: a) American bisexuals; b) Eurasian bisexuals, and c) parthenogenetic organisms (all from Eurasia).
(5) Nor, not even if he succeeds in giving substance to his Eurasian imperial dream (which is not impossible) does Putin have the network of client states on his doorstep that Stalin surrounded himself with after 1945.
(6) Instead, the Ukrainian government announced that it was "renewing dialogue" with Moscow on trade and economic matters and with the Kremlin's embryonic rival to the EU, the Eurasian customs union.
(7) The endemic areas are widespread throughout the Eurasian continent and the Japanese islands.
(8) Using genomic fingerprinting by an arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction, we resolved into three groups a collection of Eurasian and North American isolates of spirochetes that are generally categorized as B. burgdorferi.
(9) But in the end the parliament in Minsk ratified the treaty on Eurasian Economic Union on 9 October, the day before its first three members – Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan – were due to meet.
(10) Russia's discomfiture stems in part from the blow such defections would deliver to its own pet Customs Union project, part of Putin's grandiose plan for a Eurasian union.
(11) But the first step is a customs union, and, in the case of the Eurasian Union, it had to include Ukraine, Russia's largest neighbour to the west.
(12) In recent years, Putin has been keen to push his own Eurasian Union as an alternative to the EU.
(13) In order to simulate the outcome of the P-M status of Eurasian populations of Drosophila melanogaster, the evolution of experimental mixed-strains was monitored for up to 50 generations.
(14) In this paper, the history and structure of South American, Eurasian, and African rodent faunas are described.
(15) Polyakov said organisers want to revisit the idea of Ukrainian participation, “but nobody knows when.” If the aim is truly to turn a Eurasian super league into one of the strongest in the Uefa zone, then Ukrainian participation would presumably be essential.
(16) The possibility of a change towards a P type only appeared with the introduction of the strong P strain Harwich into Eurasian strains.
(17) The Eurasian Institute refused to answer questions about its funding, but said it was being attacked because of its "activities to advance the political, economic and humanitarian links between Georgia and Russia and for making critical statements about Georgia's western ties".
(18) And now, under Putin's similarly autocratic regime, Russia plans to create, over time, a vast Eurasian Union (EAU).
(19) The shade of blue would be slightly different depending on whether the Pacific Ocean or the Eurasian land mass was facing them.
(20) In Europe, protection of the habitat of the Eurasian lynx and controls on hunting have seen its population rise fivefold since the 1960s.
Suslik
Definition:
(n.) A ground squirrel (Spermophilus citillus) of Europe and Asia. It has large cheek pouches.
Example Sentences:
(1) A hyporeactive response to IFN induction in vivo was produced in active susliks but not in animals hibernating in summer.
(2) The quantitative morphological study of cardiomyocytes in heterothermic animals (red-cheeked susliks Citellus erythrogenys Br.)
(3) IFN levels in the organs were lower in hibernating susliks than in active ones, but, particularly in the spleen and kidneys, IFN remained detectable for longer in hibernating animals than in active susliks.
(4) An increase in osmolality, content of total lipids, sodium--free and potassium--free concentrations, and a decrease in magnesium concentration were revealed in suslik blood serum during hibernation and spontaneous awakening.
(5) The presence of the European suslik in the countries of Eastern Europe and the fleas parasitizing on the rodent, capable of transferring plague infection, permit the authors to raise the question of a possible occurrence of natural foci of plague in Roumania and Bulgaria.
(6) In high-mountain susliks the content of glutamate under these conditions increases in great cerebral hemispheres, while the asparate content lowers in cerebral hemispheres and cerebellum.
(7) High levels of blood-coagulating factors and of antithrombin III low plasma tolerance of heparin, high velocity of Hageman-dependent processes of prothrombinase formation and plasminogen activation were found in yellow suslik.
(8) The immunisation of hibernating susliks with the dermorphin conjugate leads to a gradual waking up of the animals, normalising of conditioning in all the parameters and occurrence of a motor component in avoidance conditioning.
(9) The formation of aggregations of related females is a peculiarity of the intrapopulational organization of long-tailed suslik that results in the accumulation of Citellophilus tesquorum, the main vector and keeper of the plague microbe in the Tuva plague nidus.
(10) ga at the 22nd minute on the average there occur convulsions in susliks living both in high mountains and middle mountains.
(11) In both groups, most IFN was detectable in the serum 1 min after injection; in hibernating susliks, in spite of their arousal from hibernation, IFN remained detectable for a longer period in the serum.
(12) Protein synthesis has been observed in brain and liver of susliks during hibernation using specific radioactivity assay and cycloheximide inhibitor analysis.
(13) The comparative study of trophonts morphology showed that the only species of the genus Trichomonas--T. muris inhabits the intestine of mice, rats, field-voles, hamsters and susliks.
(14) In the subsequent years, marmots died out in consequence of the economic activity of man and the habitats of susliks became sporadic and occurred in small foci.
(15) In dynamics of the hibernation (1, 7 and 30 days) either preservation of normothermal level or a certain increase of the homocarnosine content in all areas of the suslik brain under examination is observed.
(16) While studying the suslik fleas in artificial nests planted in free nature, significant changes in the population dynamics of N. setosa, C. simplex and C. orientalis (from the spring build up to the autumnal peak and the decrease of flea number until the next spring) were noted.
(17) According to the season, the environmental temperature, and their physiological state (whether active or in hibernation), spotted susliks produce different amounts of interferon (IFN) in response to intraperitoneal induction with Newcastle disease virus (NDV).
(18) Spotted suslik fibroblast interferon (SuIFN-beta) was given intravenously to animals active in summer and hibernating in winter.
(19) In susliks at a height of 1700-2000 m above sea level the content of glutamate aspartate and GABA lowers significantly as compared to that in susliks at a height of 500-600 m above sea level.
(20) The content of glutamic, asparaginic and gamma-aminobutyric (GABA) acids in norm and under hyperoxia was determined in different cerebral areas of susliks living in places at different heights above sea level.