(a.) Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; ravenous; rapacious; as, ferocious look or features; a ferocious lion.
Example Sentences:
(1) He has opinions on everything, and he hurls them at you so enthusiastically, so ferociously, that before long you feel battered.
(2) So, in The Devil Wears Prada , the ferocious magazine chief played by Meryl Streep is beset by secret misery: unfaithful husband, tricky kids, wig issues.
(3) But Klein – who over the years has endured pro-corporate backlash of her two earlier books and a ferocious assault for criticising Israel’s conduct against the Palestinians, says she is ready for it.
(4) In the past year the Turkish military has been engaged in a ferocious conflict with the country’s Kurdish minority.
(5) Either way, he said the harshness of the current campaign reflected Xi’s nervousness as he attempted bold and potentially destabilising reforms of the economy , the military and the Communist party itself, through a ferocious anti-corruption campaign .
(6) It passed into the statute books on Saturday after months of furious and often ferocious debate, protest and violence.
(7) While Liverpool seemed stretched by cruel successive away fixtures, Chelsea arguably mustered some of their finest attacking football of the campaign through that ferocious opening period.
(8) A man of such ferocious spirit should not be remembered as a reactionary prude.
(9) Admittedly Mourinho's side rallied after Yoan Gouffran headed Yohan Cabaye's ferociously whipped in free kick past Petr Cech but Newcastle's Mathieu Debuchy and Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa especially were defending brilliantly and Chelsea came undone on the counter-attack as a fine cross from the underrated Vurnon Anita prefaced Loïc Rémy's wonderful finish.
(10) The Zintanis hold the airport and a wedge-shaped area in the south and west, all of it now the scene of ferocious violence.
(11) Their European tour , which finishes in London on Monday, is sold out and there seems to be a general consensus that Pixies, who suddenly find themselves with everything to prove, are playing ferociously.
(12) They felt the opposition would be in Washington and did not anticipate the public would take on Obama as ferociously as they have."
(13) UK watchdog accused of bowing to pressure from 'big six' energy suppliers Read more However, it was not temporary precipitation that meant the CMA produced a damp squib but months of ferocious lobbying by the big six to ensure the industry is left largely in its existing state.
(14) Porters, rickshaw drivers, nurses, patients, students, bureaucrats, doctors and itinerant holy men all stand to eat their heavily subsidised meals, priced at no more than 5 rupees (5p) and eaten at ferocious speed with fingers from tin plates.
(15) Hague suggests that the Lib Dems are just posturing when they claim they are fighting ferociously with the Tories.
(16) On a modest street in a rundown area, Aziz Kara, a 64-year-old Turk, became embroiled in a ferocious argument with his neighbours.
(17) That was before Scorsese stepped into the debate with a firmly-worded open letter to the LA Times calling for Blackie to be added to the list of nominees for what he described as "an uncompromising performance as a ferocious guard dog who terrorises children" in Hugo, which is up for 11 Oscars.
(18) The friend's walls were covered in cheap porn, and every person I speak to in the hostel has ferocious love-bites on their necks.
(19) A ferocious interior lineman who has drawn comparison with Houston's JJ Watt, Floyd will help compensate for the departure of seven-time Pro Bowler Richard Seymour.
(20) Those chaotic early years instilled in Xi a ferocious determination to succeed, those who have met him say.
Lupine
Definition:
(n.) A leguminous plant of the genus Lupinus, especially L. albus, the seeds of which have been used for food from ancient times. The common species of the Eastern United States is L. perennis. There are many species in California.
(n.) Wolfish; ravenous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yellow lupin nodule specific sequences were selected by screening of cDNA library prepared from lupin nodule poly(A)+RNA.
(2) Nitrogen retention in lambs fed raw, dehulled lupins was equal (P greater than .10) to that of lambs fed SBM.
(3) Antibodies for EF-1 from yellow lupine have been obtained in rabbits; antibodies for wheat EF-1 were elicited in mice.
(4) In another experiment the effect of cooking-extrusion on lupine flour (L. albus) was investigated and the chemical composition, protein efficiency ratio, methionine supplementation and digestibility of the protein were measured.
(5) Energy retention was depressed (P less than 0.05) with the three lupin-seed meals and the meat-and-bone meal.
(6) The structure of the CO complex of lupin leghemoglobin II in solution is compared with the X-ray crystal structure of the cyanide complex by comparison of observed and calculated ring current shifts.
(7) Hungry delphiniums, water-loving astilbe and drought-tolerant lupins would all be muddled together, with the thirstiest plants dictating the watering regime.
(8) The comparative study of different methods for the purification of bean yellow mosaic virus isolated from lupine has been made.
(9) In Experiment 2 raw and extruded lupins were fed at 10, 15, 20, and 25% of the diet for 16 wk.
(10) It showed the maximum sequence homology (24%) with lupin leghaemoglobin (Lb).
(11) From the partial sequence of lupin tRNA(Gln) we suggest that it will have readthrough properties.
(12) Leghaemoglobins were extracted from the root nodules of lupin (Lupinus luteus L.) and serradella (Ornithopus sativus Brot.)
(13) pGS5 was sequenced (1043 bp) and computer-assisted homology searching revealed a high degree of conservation between this lupin partial cDNA clone and other plant glutamine synthetases at both the amino acid (greater than 90%) and nucleotide (greater than 80%) level.
(14) Dehulled lupins commercially roasted at low, moderate, and high temperatures resulted in ruminal in situ N disappearances of 59, 47, and 43% for the respective temperatures.
(15) Moreover, the time of the LH peak was advanced by both lupin supplementation and GnRH treatment.
(16) The largest level of glycogen was detected in bacteroid forms from lupine nodules and especially those of the pea after inoculation with ineffective strains: in comparison with the bacteroids from nodules of effective bean-Rhizobium symbiosis, it was 2.5--3.0 times as high.
(17) Extraction of germinating-lupin cocyledons, followed by ion-exchange and gel chromatography, gave two alpha-L-arabinofuranosidases and three beta-D-galactopyranosidases.
(18) Merino wether weaners were exposed to toxic lupin stubbles for periods of one, two and six to nine weeks, and the effect on their liver copper, selenium and zinc concentrations studied.
(19) In the case of lupine and soybean 43 nucleotides upstream of 5S rRNA gene exhibits 100% of homology.
(20) Supplementation with lupin grain significantly increased ovulation rate by 37% by increasing the proportion of ewes with two ovulations.