(n.) A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water.
(n.) An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See Pisces.
(n.) The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.
(n.) The flesh of fish, used as food.
(n.) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
(n.) A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard.
(v. i.) To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.
(v. i.) To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.
(v. t.) To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.
(v. t.) To search by raking or sweeping.
(v. t.) To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.
(v. t.) To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to the beam, mast, or timbers, lengthwise on one or both sides. See Fish joint, under Fish, n.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both the vitellogenesis and the GtH cell activity are restored in the fish exposed to short photoperiod if it is followed by a long photoperiod.
(2) Roadford Lake with over 730 acres for watersports, fishing and birdwatching plus paths and bridleways.
(3) External exposures to a contaminated fishing net and fishing boat are considered pathways for fishermen.
(4) Two fully matured specimens were collected from the blood vessel of two fish, Theragra chalcogramma, which was bought at the Emun market of Seoul in May, 1985.
(5) The telencephalon of teleost fish shows high affinity uptake for D-[3H]aspartate, intermediate levels of GABAergic markers and low levels of cholinergic enzymes.
(6) The authors present the first results on the utilization of fish infusion (IFP) as a basic medium for the cultivation of bacteria.
(7) In telecost fishes, the corpuscles of Stannius contain Bowie-stainable granules and a renin-like pressor substance.
(8) Fish were trained monocularly via the compressed or the normal visual field using an aversive classical conditioning model.
(9) Alternatively, try the Hawaii Fish O nights, every Friday from 26 July until the end of August, featuring a one-hour paddleboard lesson, followed by a fish-and-chip supper looking out over the waves you've just battled (£16.75).
(10) Small and medium fish swim up when stressed, whereas larger fish swim down.
(11) Macron hit back on Twitter, saying her proposals to take France out of the EU would destroy France’s fishing industry.
(12) Careless Herbicidal aerial spray of a field for weed control and defoliation of cotton before machine picking, resulted in the contamination of an adjoining reservoir, killing large volume of fish.
(13) The function of these triple cones can not be deduced from the behavior patterns of these fishes.
(14) Both fatty acid composition and the degree of lipid peroxidation were measured in this study in 23 OTC fish oil preparations.
(15) The possibility of mammalian mitochondria functioning in fish embryos has been studied.
(16) Instead, they say, we should only eat plenty of lean meat and fish, with fruit and raw vegetables on the side.
(17) The nerve endings in the heart of fishes were studied using silver impregnation techniques.
(18) As for fish attractiveness, motion, freshness, size, color and species were found as important parameters in the food-preference mechanism.
(19) Interest in the antithrombotic potential of diets enriched with fish oil-derived polyunsaturated fatty acids (omega-3 PUFAs) prompted us to examine how these fatty acids, when taken preoperatively, affect hemostasis, plasma lipid levels, and production of prostacyclin (PGI2) by vascular tissues in atherosclerotic patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
(20) The olfactory organs of fishes are diversely developed.
Viviparous
Definition:
(a.) Producing young in a living state, as most mammals, or as those plants the offspring of which are produced alive, either by bulbs instead of seeds, or by the seeds themselves germinating on the plant, instead of falling, as they usually do; -- opposed to oviparous.
Example Sentences:
(1) This series of transitions at the embryonic age (up to the time of egg viviparity) is connected with ecological peculiarities of different species.
(2) The uterine epithelium of the viviparous Salamandra atra and the ovoviviparous Salamandra salamandra was studied in non pregnant and ovulating females and in females during different stages of pregnancy.
(3) Based on in vivo and in vitro modulation of immune responses by placental products, it is concluded that: 1) allograft enhancement and high production of IgG1 antibodies are not linked to the same glycoprotein, 2) the immunomodulators in relation to the protection of viviparity appear to be located at the exclusion limits of Sephacryl S-200 (i.e.
(4) Splenic cells from pregnant and non-pregnant viviparous lizards (Chalcides ocellatus) were stimulated in vitro with the mitogens, concanavalin A (Con A), phytohemagglutinin (PHA) and Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide (LPS).
(5) It therefore appears that in the genus Wuchereria, as in the other viviparous filarioids, the phenomenon of speciation is evident first of all in the morphology of the microfilaria, the stage most susceptible to selection pressures.
(6) A plasma steroid binding protein (SHBP) with medium-high affinity and limited capacity was characterized in the viviparous water snake, Nerodia.
(7) We investigated the regulation of Re by progesterone in a mammalian model (proestrous hamster uterus) and an avian model (DES-primed chick oviduct), under the same assay conditions, in an effort to compare progesterone action in viviparous and oviparous species.
(8) This character opposes these species to the other viviparous Filariae and stresses the originality of the Oswaldofilariinar.
(9) The neurosecretory A cells of the pars intercerebralis of the viviparous fly Glossina fuscipes fuscipes present important changes during the genital cycle.
(10) Viviparity, on the other hand, allows the growth of a much larger fetus, offers great protection and is highly efficient.
(11) Steroid concentrations in plasma and follicular tissues (theca plus granulosa layers) were determined by radioimmunoassay in the aplacental viviparous ray, Torpedo marmorata, during various stages of the reproductive cycle.
(12) Etiology was determined to be a viviparous pinworm-like nematode of the genus Proatractis (Family Atractidae).
(13) In this paper is also presented a discussion about the different modes of reproduction oviparity and viviparity (placental and non-placental) and their variations according to families, genus and species.
(14) The ability of arachidonic acid (AA) and prostaglandins of the two series to induce parturition in vivo and oviducal contraction in vitro was studied in the viviparous lizard Sceloporus jarrovi.
(15) In the viviparous guppy, fertilization and gestation are intrafollicular.
(16) Here we described the emergence of T-cell immune capability in the viviparous lizard (Chalcides ocellatus) throughout embryonic development (stages 36-41 of Zada and El Deeb, 1984) and in newborns.
(17) Uterine contractility was investigated in the viviparous lizard Tiliqua rugosa.
(18) On the basis of these observations we speculate that viviparity might occur in vivo with consequent autoinfections; if so, this might explain some puzzling clinical and epidemiological features of haemonchosis, as well as the incomplete efficacy of current control measures.
(19) In a previous study we characterized an oviduct progesterone receptor in the viviparous snake, Nerodia, and in this study we describe changes in receptor during the reproductive cycle.
(20) The Viviparous-1 (Vp1) gene is required for expression of the C1 regulatory gene of the anthocyanin pathway in the developing maize seed.