(n.) A swamp or low tract of land inundated with water and interspersed with hummocks, or small islands, and patches of high grass; as, the everglades of Florida.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chief executive Steve Cernak said Port Everglades was “a landlord port” in which its tenants, and not the port itself, conducted business with Cuba.
(2) President Barack Obama used an unusually picturesque appearance at Everglades National Park on Wednesday to draw attention to an ugly problem that he said was threatening the well-being of people in south Florida and around the world: climate change.
(3) The Ca Ar 19007 isolate causes total protection against Everglades virus if injected intra-peritoneally, but only partial protection by the sub-cutaneous route.
(4) Everglades virus diverged from this ID lineage (colonized North America) ca.
(5) The Everglades is a 1.5m-acre estuary in southern Florida that boasts hundreds of unique species and serves as an essential buffer and filter between inland freshwater stores and the salt waters of the Gulf Stream and ocean beyond.
(6) No inspections on water and air and the Everglades,” Biden told them in an impromptu address.
(7) The Everglades national park in Florida is also on the critical list, mainly due to the area’s declining water quality, introduced pest species and vulnerability to climate change.
(8) Recent studies have exposed the devastating impact pythons have had on native species in the Everglades.
(9) Mice immunized with recombinant vaccinia virus (VACC) expressing Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) virus capsid protein and glycoproteins E1 and E2 or with attenuated VEE TC-83 virus vaccine developed VEE-specific neutralizing antibody and survived intraperitoneal challenge with virulent VEE virus strains including Trinidad donkey (subtype 1AB), P676 (subtype 1C), 3880 (subtype 1D), and Everglades (subtype 2).
(10) He said he would be visiting the Florida Everglades on Wednesday to see how the environment is at risk from rising sea levels there: “Climate change can no longer be denied or ignored,” he said.
(11) Dissident republicans attacked the Everglades hotel on Thursday night because it was planning to host another jobs fair organised by the Police Service of Northern Ireland next week, security and republican sources have confirmed.
(12) But Jersey does have the Pine Barrens, a million-acre forest that is the largest surviving open space on the eastern seaboard between the forests of northern Maine and the Florida Everglades.
(13) The acreage identified is drawn from a 1997 survey conducted by the Clinton administration, which sought to identify potential offsets to revive the Florida Everglades after decades of pollution from the sugar cane industry.
(14) Cabassou, on the other hand, if injected intra-peritoneally will protect against intra-cerebral challenge with Everglades.
(15) Air Force One would have consumed an estimated 9,180 gallons of fuel to make the 1,836-mile round trip to the Everglades, however, CBS News reported .
(16) Transport of DDT, DDD, and DDE from the Everglades agricultural area into water conservation areas and undeveloped parts of the Everglades of southeastern Florida is facilitated by a system of water-management canals.
(17) Subtype II Everglades and variety ID enzootic viruses formed a monophyletic group which also included all epizootic variety IAB and IC VEE isolates.
(18) This includes a $1,012,367.76 trip to give a global warming speech in the Everglades in 2015; a fundraising trip to San Diego in the same year costing $2,181,655.99; and a February 2016 Aspen skiing trip for Michelle Obama and her daughters, which cost taxpayers a total of $222,875.58.
(19) Infectious puma lentivirus (PLV) was isolated from several Florida panthers, a severely endangered relict puma subspecies inhabiting the Big Cypress Swamp and Everglades ecosystems in southern Florida.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest April 2015: visiting Everglades national park on Earth Day to discuss climate change.
Hammock
Definition:
(n.) A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.
(n.) A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines. Used also adjectively; as, hammock land.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cantact placing reaction times were measured in cats which were either restrained in a hammock or supported in a conventional way.
(2) Uretero-ileal anastomosis by hammock method done in 10 cases resulted in success in 8 cases, abolishing the afferent nipple.
(3) Four patients exhibited posterior motion of the tricuspid valve in early systole, which reached a maximum in midsystole, and this was followed by an anterior motion, thus producing a hammock-like configuration.
(4) The latter differences seem to be related to the posture of the animals in the hammock.
(5) M-mode echocardiographic criteria for mitral valve prolapse consisted of late systolic posterior motion (greater than or equal to 3 mm) of one or both mitral leaflets or holosystolic hammocking (greater than or equal to 3 mm) of one or both mitral leaflets.
(6) An accessory cusp located between the right and noncoronary cusps, and shaped like a hammock which sling by the fibrous strings originating from the both commissures to the aortic wall.
(7) A cat, restrained in a hammock, stands with its feet on supporting trays each furnished with strain gauges to measure the isometric upthrust.
(8) The authors approve of this last way of dealing with the emptied pelvic cavity because the synthetic material is very well tolerated clinically and the polyglactine 910 mesh is not predisposed to infection when it is used to make a hammock to prevent chronic radiation enteritis by holding the small intestines out of the pelvis.
(9) One-off options, such as La Banda in Seville (dorm bed from €15), or Casa Caracol in Cádiz (from €10 B&B for a hammock), are a treat for laid-back travellers of all generations.
(10) The head was fixed in a stereotaxic device, the T2 spinal process clamped to a metal frame, and the lumbar region suspended by a hammock, with bilateral forelimb contact on the floor of a treadmill.
(11) This sequence of motion gives the impression of a rocking hammock or pendulum.
(12) Its two whitewashed, self-catering bungalows are just steps from the historic cobblestones but far enough away to give a sense of isolation while you lounge around in poolside in hammocks surrounded by manicured tropical gardens.
(13) The reaction times were longer, particularly for the forelimbs, when the cats were tested in the hammock as compared to the conventional procedure.
(14) However, it is the marmoset – furry, curious and humanlike – that triggers the most intense emotional responses, a point acknowledged by Mary (who asked not to be fully identified), the senior research technician in charge of the animals at King's, who devotes her time to the animals' welfare, right down to knitting hammocks for them to sleep in.
(15) Swim, sunbathe or hang out in a hammock between classes and pick a teacher who feels right to you.
(16) Expect to lose a few hours lolling in the hammocks on the verandah, eating fresh mango and melon breakfasts, with friends of the Capela family dropping by for beers in the evening.
(17) First, though, is the inevitable "career highlights" montage: Mark riverdancing in socks at the Super Bowl; Mark motioning frantically to his genitals at Crufts; Mark clopping jubilantly across the churned sod of Ascot, clackers swinging like pork hammocks in a gale.
(18) The animals were either held in a soft bag, loosely attached by cords, or suspended in a hammock; the eyes were either free of blindfolded.
(19) "This whole thing is a pantomime to keep the tourists happy but for people like us it will get worse again soon," said Juana, 58, as she rocked her coughing grandchild in a hammock in the tiny shop where she sells homemade piñatas.
(20) Morphologically 15 diverticula were bulky outpouchings, six were tongue-like, and three hammocking.