(n.) One of several species of sea birds of the genus Sula, allied to the pelicans.
Example Sentences:
(1) They were not found in sera from bridled terns (Sterna anaetheta) or brown gannets (Sula leucogaster) nesting on the same islands.
(2) "I 'll be glad to get shot of you gannets," Guy says.
(3) Ten strains of Johnston Atoll (JA) virus were isolated from Ornithodoros capensis collected in a Gannet (Sula bassana serrator) colony in New Zealand.
(4) Presumably he felt the assembled hacks were akin to gannets.
(5) Lieutenant Angela Lewis, of HMS Gannet, said: "Conditions were extremely challenging.
(6) Plasma prolactin was measured in the Cape gannet (Sula capensis) which differs from most other avian species in that although both sexes share equally in incubation duties, neither sex possesses an incubation patch but rather incubates a single egg with its foot webbing.
(7) "Foreign" means anywhere outside Scotland, so Trinity Mirror and the Daily Mail and General Trust are included in the definition as well as Gannet and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp , which have their roots in the US.
(8) The putative inhibition of the pituitary-gonadal axis by prolactin is discussed together with other possible roles of prolactin during the breeding season in gannets.
(9) Where Brown ordered a politically correct ornamental pen holder made from the timbers of the Victorian anti-slavery ship HMS Gannet, Samantha Cameron just popped out to her old shopping grounds in Notting Hill.
(10) Newsquest , the UK division of the US publishing house Gannet, paid £216m for the Herald, the Sunday Herald and the Glasgow Evening Times in 2004.
(11) Transmission experiments and the high incidence of birds with neutralizing antibody indicate that the virus is maintained in the colony by a cycle involving ticks and Gannets.
(12) The basal levels of the osmoregulatory hormones, arginine vasotocin (AVT) and angiotensin II (AII) were measured (by radioimmunoassay) in the plasma of conscious Kelp gulls, Cape gannets and Jackass penguins.
(13) This work has shown that in many colonial nesting birds (for example auks, terns, gulls, gannets and penguins) brief calls of a half-second duration or less can have enough acoustic detail not only to serve as labels identifying the calling species but also to label the individual caller.