(n.) An ornament; a piece of worthless finery; a trinket.
(n.) To sport or keep festival.
(v. t.) To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colors; to paint.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two new feather mite species of Aralichus Gaud (Pterolichoidea, Pterolichidae) are described from the white-capped parrot Pionus senilis (Spix): Aralichus elongatus and Aralichus menchacai.
Gaur
Definition:
(n.) An East Indian species of wild cattle (Bibos gauris), of large size and an untamable disposition.
Example Sentences:
(1) The chromosomes of five gaur (Bos gaurus hubbacki) domestic cattle (B indicus cross B taurus) hybrids (three females, two males) were studied using the leucocyte culture method and centromeric (C) banding technique.
(2) The sites of low grade infection produced by the prior subcutaneous injection of E. coli culture or gaur faecal suspension were susceptible to superinfection by doses of F. necrophorum far below those required to infect normal tissue.
(3) Unexpectedly, the sequence of the flaD locus was identical to that of sin [sporulation inhibition gene; Gaur, N. K., Dubnau, E. & Smith, I.
(4) Chromomycin A3 banding of the mitotic sets of 10 species of Bovidae (cattle, wisent, yak, banteng, gaur, red buffalo, swamp buffalo, sheep, mufflon, and goat) serves to demarcate both centromeric constitutive heterochromatin and R-banding patterns capable of identifying all the chromosomes within a given complement.
(5) Idiopathic epilepsy was diagnosed in 3 gaur in a zoologic park collection during a 3-year period.
(6) In the present study the infective dose of the same strain of F. necrophorum was reduced by a factor of greater than 10(3) by suspending the fusobacteria in sub-lethal doses of 5% homogenate of gaur or wallaby faeces.
(7) The C banding patterns were useful in identifying the X and Y chromosomes and the inherited submetacentric autosomes from the gaur sire.
(8) The role of heredity in development of seizures in these gaur is unclear because of limited founder stock of gaur in North America.
(9) The sin gene is a transcriptional regulator that is required for the development of competence (N. K. Gaur, E. Dubnau, and I. Smith, J. Bacteriol.
(10) The herpesvirus from the Indian gaur and greater kudu and high passages (greater than 50) of the cell-free WC-11 strain of alcelaphine herpesvirus-1 also were inhibited in their replication by recombinant IFN of bovine and human origins as determined by a fluorescent focus unit (FFU) reduction assay.
(11) Results of serum biochemical analysis, CBC, blood lead analysis, CSF analysis, and necropsy were within normal limits in all gaur.
(12) Viral isolates from an Indian gaur (Bos gaurus), a greater kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) and two wildebeest (Connochaetes gnou) calves did not induce measurable interferon (IFN) in bovine fetal kidney cells.