(n.) One of the native inhabitants of the pampas, of Spanish-American descent. They live mostly by rearing cattle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mario Götze, Miroslav Klose, Toni Kroos, André Schürrle, Shkodran Mustafi and Roman Weidenfeller enacted an old football chant that had previously only been seen on the terraces, jumping and waving as they sang "That's what the Germans look like," then slouching with hanging heads to the words "That's what the Gauchos (Argentinians) look like".
(2) Gaucho Rasmussen, an OFT director, said: "OFT research has found that reference pricing can mislead consumers into thinking the item they have bought is of higher value and quality."
(3) Juan Manuel gives me the lowdown on riding gaucho style, which involves holding the reins very loosely in one hand.
(4) A former model, who trained as a chef in New York, she’ll occasionally drop nuggets like “My father was a gaucho,” into the conversation.
(5) She and her friends dress in bombachas de campo (baggy gaucho trousers), and congregate in the town plaza to drink mate (the traditional national drink, made from steeping dried leaves of yerba mate ).
(6) The Gaucho Martín Fierro, written by José Hernández in 1872 and 1879, is today considered the most beautiful of the original productions of the River Plate literature.
(7) Blood samples of a normal, blood group 0 individual and of a patient who exhibited methemoglobinemia after Loxosceles bite were incubated separately with antisera against Loxosceles gaucho, Crotalus terrificus, Bothrops jararaca, with Loxosceles gaucho venom and 0.3% phenol.
(8) Gel filtration on Sephadex G 100 of L. gaucho spider venom resulted in three fractions: fraction A, containing the higher mol.
(9) A search for IgG antibodies anti-Loxosceles gaucho venom in patients with loxoscelism submitted to serumtherapy showed antibodies in four out of 20 patients.
(10) Most especially, he gives vivid and pathetic shape to the myth of the gaucho in his context: the rural community in its early stages.
(11) According to Juan Manuel, Sol is a prime example of how Uruguayan gaucho culture is undergoing a revival.
(12) So if tango and gauchos belong as much to Uruguay's national identity as they do to its gigantic neighbour, what else has this tiny country been hiding?
(13) Immunoblotting tests showed that human anti-L. gaucho IgG antibodies recognize preferentially the components responsible for the dermonecrotic and lethal activities of the venom.
(14) Before then, there's a chance to refuel with a typical Panagea spread: hearty pasta, fainá (a thick pancake of chickpea flour and cheese), salad and galleta (a traditional gaucho's loaf of bread which looks like a concertina and lasts for a month).
(15) Porto Alegre is known throughout Brazil for its gauchos and rock music scene, with hyped alt-rockers Apanhador Só currently toast of the town.
(16) Gaucho Rasmussen, head of the OFT's goods and consumer group, said: "Retailers advertise bargains and discounts by referring to a previous or future higher price.
(17) I've come here as a complete beginner to learn how to ride, gaucho-style.
(18) Loxosceles gaucho spider venom causes a typical dermonecrotic lesion in bitten patients and rarely causes lethal systemic effects.
(19) Gauchos don't gallop unless there's a problem," Juan Manuel assures me, as we prepare to set off on horseback from his farmhouse in the deepest reaches of the Uruguayan interior.
Pampas
Definition:
(n. pl.) Vast plains in the central and southern part of the Argentine Republic in South America. The term is sometimes used in a wider sense for the plains extending from Bolivia to Southern Patagonia.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Argentine hemorrhagic fever (AHF) is an infectious disease, endemo-epidemical, of viral etiology, produced by the Junin virus and limited to the Buenos Aires Province, South of Córdoba, East of La Pampa, and South of Santa Fe.
(2) A double-blind study against placebo was done in two primary schools of the west of La Pampa, with 105 and 43 pupils respectively.
(3) Most of the nearby roads aren't really roads, and one of the best ways to get a feel for the landscape is to go on a sunset horse ride from the middle of the nearby pampas down to the seaside, on one of the Haras Godiva stables group outings (00598 480 6112; harasgodiva.com ).
(4) Embracing the World recently cleaned the Pampa River in the state of Kerala .
(5) In the company of two Swiss photographers, Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer, we passed through 10 World Cup host cities, the Amazon, the Pampas, the Sertão and the Cerrado, stopping only to eat, sleep, photograph and talk to the players and fans we met along the way.
(6) Villa, sitting in the afternoon sun under a big pampas sky, smiles in recollection.
(7) Epizootics of equine encephalitis have occurred since at least 1908, principally in the Pampa and Espinal biogeographic zones, with significant economic losses; human cases of encephalitis have been rare or absent.
(8) As Villa says: 'Here, at least here in the Pampas region, children are well nourished.
(9) Panagea is not like the grandiose tourist estancias that exist in abundance in the Argentine pampa; it's a functional, unpretentious family home.
(10) The nematode species Spiculopteragia spiculoptera, Spiculopteragia asymmetrica and Ostertagia leptospicularis were recovered from the abomasum of wild red deer, Cervus elaphus, in the forest area of the semi-arid Pampeana Region of La Pampa (Argentina) for the first time.
(11) A vaccine against Argentine hemorrhagic fever, the "mal de los rastrojos" of the pampas, has been a dream of physicians and scientists involved with the disease since its recognition in the 1950s.
(12) From 1,000-metre-high forested ridges, the altitude dropped to the rolling hills of Paraná and then finally down to the Pampas flatlands close to the border with Uruguay.
(13) Here's an excerpt from the article : 4,100m (13,450ft) Pampa Corral, near Cusco, Peru: The farmer Julio Hanneco grows 215 varieties of potatoes in his highland village.
(14) The animals were from the Provinces of Buenos Aires (59% of the calves), Córdoba (18%), Santa Fe (16%), Entre Ríos (5%) and La Pampa (2%).
(15) But the wild natural world, comprised of vast areas not managed by humans, rarely exists now except in a few isolated places such as the Alaskan wilderness, the far Canadian north, Siberia, the pampas of Argentina and Uruguay, and the Brazilian Pantanal which are still rich with natural sound, he says.
(16) Bésame, bésame mucho ," crooned Nicolas in a voice as smooth as wild pampas honey.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dr Nidia Mejía talking to Vanesa del Carmen Velásquez, 23, who is 32 weeks pregnant, at her home in Las Pampas, Aguilares.
(18) When I played at Southampton people there showed me them and I saw some in the supermarket here – it was strange.” Sub-equatorial Fray Bentos, surrounded by fertile pampas and abundant palm trees, is said to retain the feel of a place belonging in a Graham Greene novel.