(n.) A cyprinoid fish of the Mississippi valley (Pimephales promelas); -- called also black-headed minnow.
(n.) A labroid food fish of California; the redfish.
Example Sentences:
(1) The toxicity of natural pyrethrins and five pyrethroids was determined with coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), steelhead trout (Salmo gairdneri), fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas), channel catfish (Icatlurus punctatus), bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus), and yellow perch (Perca flavescens).
(2) The viral susceptibility range of a poikilothermic cell line derived from the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas) (FHM) to infection by a number of homoiothermic viruses representing most of the presently recognized viral groups and a member of the psittacosis-lymphogranuloma-trachoma group of agents was studied.
(3) However, there was a better correlation between the in vitro cytotoxicity data for the BF-2 cell culture and LC50 data for bluegill sunfish than between similar data for the FHM cell line and fathead minnows.
(4) Following administration by gavage [75Se]selenate and [75Se]selenite were absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract of fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) at 94 and 80% efficiency, respectively.
(5) Using behavioral parameters monitored in the fathead minnow during acute toxicity testing, FATS associated with acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitors and narcotics could be reliably predicted.
(6) The ovarian histology of fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) chronically exposed to three levels of environmental pH was examined for evidence of reproductive impairment.
(7) The suitability of the fathead minnow (FHM) epithelial cell line for use as the target (indicator) system in in vitro cytotoxicity assays was evaluated using several endpoints.
(8) Concurrent predation by rainbow trout on fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas), five-spined sticklebacks (Culaea inconstans), and nine-spined sticklebacks (Pungitius pungitius), concentrated the parasites.
(9) Reasons for the disparity between selenium-induced reproductive impairment observed in other species and apparent lack of impairment in fathead minnows may involve reduced bioaccumulation of selenium by minnows due to differences in gut morphology and physiology.
(10) This study evaluates the quantitative structure-activity relationships from measured log Kow's and log LC50's for Pimephales promelas (fathead minnow) and Carassius auratus (goldfish).
(11) Hepatic neoplasms developed in the Japanese medaka, guppy, sheepshead minnow, Gulf killifish, inland silverside, rivulus, and fathead minnow.
(12) Brief exposure chronic test results indicated that fathead minnow exposure to chlorpyrifos for as few as 5 hr at a concentration similar to a continuous exposure 96-hr LC50 value resulted in increased deformities and a reduction in growth, whereas a 48-hr exposure at a concentration similar to a continuous exposure 96-hr LC50 value was required to cause a reduction in growth for endrin and a reduction in survival and growth for fenvalerate.
(13) DNA fiber autoradiography was performed on cells of the fathead minnow cultured at 14 and 34 degrees C. Replicon growth rates were found to be about twice as fast at the higher temperature, but there was no appreciable difference in the number of replicons.
(14) This study investigated the relationships between the toxicities of common organic pollutants to the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas), to Daphnia magna, to Tetrahymena pyriformis and in the Microtox test, which uses the luminescent bacterium Photobacterium phosphoreum.
(15) Brain AChE from rats, mice, fathead minnows, or rainbow trout was preincubated with an IC90 concentration of either paraoxon or malaoxon.
(16) Viruses isolated from fish with viral haemorrhagic septicaemia (VHS), infectious haematopoietic necrosis (IHN), spring viraemia of carp (SVC), swim-bladder inflammation (SBI) and pike fry disease (PFD) have been grown to high titre in fathead minnow cells.
(17) Using a conventional "resaturation" method whereby aquarium water was continuously passed through a column containing sand or fine glass beads coated with cyclic and linear permethylsiloxanes, their uptake levels by rainbow trout and fathead minnows have been compared.
(18) The model describes the combined effects of dose-level exposure and time-duration exposure using 570 96-hr toxicity tests with fathead minnows.
(19) Fathead minnow larvae (Pimephales promelas) were exposed to three individual pesticides during brief or continuous exposure in 96-hr and 28- to 30-day toxicity tests.
(20) were found in the atrium of the heart of fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) and five- and nine-spined sticklebacks (Culaea inconstans and Pungitius pungitius).
Genius
Definition:
(n.) A good or evil spirit, or demon, supposed by the ancients to preside over a man's destiny in life; a tutelary deity; a supernatural being; a spirit, good or bad. Cf. Jinnee.
(n.) The peculiar structure of mind with whoch each individual is endowed by nature; that disposition or aptitude of mind which is peculiar to each man, and which qualifies him for certain kinds of action or special success in any pursuit; special taste, inclination, or disposition; as, a genius for history, for poetry, or painting.
(n.) Peculiar character; animating spirit, as of a nation, a religion, a language.
(n.) Distinguished mental superiority; uncommon intellectual power; especially, superior power of invention or origination of any kind, or of forming new combinations; as, a man of genius.
(n.) A man endowed with uncommon vigor of mind; a man of superior intellectual faculties; as, Shakespeare was a rare genius.
Example Sentences:
(1) Totò was a legend in the Vesuvian city – a comedian of genius; poignant, mysterious.
(2) "What this proves is that the way Bowie engineered his comeback was a stroke of genius," said music writer Simon Price.
(3) But the genius of the High Line was to revive and repurpose a decaying piece of legacy infrastructure, and by doing so to revitalise several moribund districts of Manhattan, whereas the garden bridge would be new-build in an already vibrant part of London.
(4) The genius of a democracy governed by the rule of law, our democracy, is that it both empowers the majority through the ballot box, and constrains the majority, its government, so that it is bound by law.” Turnbull added: “Why does Daesh [another term for Islamic State] hate us?
(5) "Of course, it is one of the great genius properties on TV that will never see the light of day."
(6) The former Massachusetts governor, like many Republicans, expected the Trump campaign to implode last summer, after he insulted Mexicans and said Arizona senator and 2008 Republican nominee John McCain was not a “war hero” because “I like people who weren’t captured.” This year, days after Trump did not immediately disavow an expression of support from David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, Romney said one of his sons was driving him to an airport when he asked: “When the grandkids ask ‘What did you do to stop Donald Trump ?’ what are you going to say?’” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Romney launches extensive attack on Trump: ‘A genius he is not’ That, Romney said, was the final push.
(7) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
(8) Channel One also branded Berezovsky an "evil genius," and a report on his demise quoted a senior member of the ruling United Russia , Vyacheslav Nikonov, saying he found it hard to believe the news was true.
(9) The company's past efforts – the Genius system within iTunes for providing recommendations based on your previous purchases – have been... average.
(10) Far and away ahead of confidence and genius, the ability to contribute to the team and the culture, to show up on time and produce solid work, to be reliable and nice to have around, are the most valuable things to a potential employer.
(11) For the second show in the Guardian’s 10-week radio series on NTS, Alexis talked to the Guide’s Kate Hutchinson about glam’s early innovators, forgotten outliers and its modern descendants: T Rex to David Bowie and Iron Virgin to Perfume Genius.
(12) The genius of The Great British Bake Off - Podcast Read more The rules of the show are simple.
(13) Apparently, he had nothing to declare but his genius.
(14) ", while Buzzfeed's Ayesha Siddiqi described the site as "Wikipedia with the self perception of Rap Genius".
(15) Yes, they brought genius and organisational skills, for which they justly receive kudos.
(16) He truly was one of the few people who deserved the title of ‘genius.’ Stephen Fry (@stephenfry) Devastating news about @robinwilliams — knew him a little and liked him a whole lot more.
(17) Russia Aligned to the Warsaw Pact bloc Sometimes you just have to applaud Russia's diplomatic genius.
(18) He may have received a standing ovation at Monday’s Hollywood premiere, but his genius contribution was to have no input.
(19) That was when the man currently being hailed as a coaching genius went to Dublin in search of a spot at the 2002 World Cup and with a squad featuring some of the best forwards in Europe - Kluivert, Van Nistelrooy, Hasselbaink, Overmars, Makaay, etc.
(20) He was an actual genius" – Green has been much concerned with language, and the point where it gives up its ghosts of meaning.