(n.) A large, arboreal, anthropoid ape of West Africa. It is larger than a man, and is remarkable for its massive skeleton and powerful muscles, which give it enormous strength. In some respects its anatomy, more than that of any other ape, except the chimpanzee, resembles that of man.
Example Sentences:
(1) The remaining four positive gorilla sera reacted as HSV-2-positive sera.
(2) We determined four nucleotide sequences of the hominoid immunoglobulin alpha (C alpha) genes (chimpanzee C alpha 2, gorilla C alpha 2, and gibbon C alpha 1 and C alpha 2 genes), which made possible the examination of gene conversions in all hominoid C alpha genes.
(3) The idea behind the box is that it will exercise the gorillas and keep them occupied.
(4) Barra’s main rivals in the single-speed category were Willo and a rider nicknamed Neu York, representing the Gorilla Smash Squad.
(5) Our findings substantially increase the evidence indicative of a human-chimpanzee-gorilla clade with ancestral separations around 8 to 6 Myr ago.
(6) Observed home range use patterns increased the gorillas' foraging efficiency.
(7) Plasma Mg and Ca concentrations were lower than reported captive gorilla means, whereas Na and P were higher.
(8) Two witnesses said they thought the gorilla was trying to protect the boy at first, before getting spooked by the screams of onlookers.
(9) It is to be hoped that the inquiry into how the escape happened will extend to a behavioural study to determine why Kumbuka appears to be so stressed.” Is Kumbuku particularly aggressive or agitated –or is his behaviour just part of being an adult gorilla?
(10) To understand the phylogenetic relationships between hominoids, the nucleotide sequences of immunoglobulin-epsilon processed pseudogenes from chimpanzee, gorilla and orangutan were determined.
(11) Relative to human, no translocations were detected in great apes, except for the well-known fusion-origin of human chromosome 2 and a 5;17 translocation in the gorilla.
(12) The power and versatility of these computer-imaging techniques are demonstrated by examining living subjects with major craniofacial dysmorphology (Treacher-Collins syndrome and unilateral coronal synostosis); an anthropoid osteological specimen (Gorilla); and a fossil mammal skull.
(13) These results demonstrate qualitative differences in the telomeric heterochromatin between Pan and Gorilla despite the fact that these areas appear homogeneous in the two genera by the C-banding method.
(14) In the present study we demonstrate that a representative gorilla haplotype also consists of two short C4 genes and two CYP21 genes, neither of which, however, has the characteristic 8 bp deletion.
(15) The electrophoretic mobilities of human, gorilla and gibbon CBG were similar (RF 0.50-0.51), but differed from Old World monkey CBG (RF 0.44-0.49) and chimpanzee CBG (RF 0.47).
(16) Here, we compare the newly completed sequences of orang-utan and rhesus monkey with human, chimpanzee, gorilla, owl monkey, lemur and goat orthologues.
(17) Civil unrest has also led to the illegal poaching of mountain gorillas.
(18) The Sibley and Ahlquist uncorrected data indicate that Pan is genetically closer to Homo than to Gorilla, but that Gorilla may be genetically closer to Pan than to Homo.
(19) The sequence of the gorilla alpha-fetoprotein gene, including 869 base pairs of the 5' flanking region and 4892 base pairs of the 3' flanking region (24,607 in total), was determined from two overlapping lambda phage clones.
(20) At one point, he and his fellow militias set up base in Virunga national park, famed for its gorillas in the mist , where they survived by eating monkeys and sometimes even elephants.
Guerrilla
Definition:
(n.) An irregular mode of carrying on war, by the constant attacks of independent bands, adopted in the north of Spain during the Peninsular war.
(n.) One who carries on, or assists in carrying on, irregular warfare; especially, a member of an independent band engaged in predatory excursions in war time.
(a.) Pertaining to, or engaged in, warfare carried on irregularly and by independent bands; as, a guerrilla party; guerrilla warfare.
Example Sentences:
(1) If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
(2) Their brief was to eradicate cross-border raids by Palestinian fedayeen (guerrillas), yet many felt the overzealous Sharon was becoming a law unto himself.
(3) His political activism earned him a 10-year jail term for "subversive speech", after which he fled to neighbouring Mozambique to lead guerrilla forces in a protracted war against Ian Smith's government that left 27,000 dead.
(4) Dubbed the Switzerland of South America for its relative wealth and stability, its image would be shaken up with a former guerrilla and self-described "hot head" in charge.
(5) One of the employees, Lucía Topolansky, had tipped off the “Tupas” that the bank was doing illegal currency deals; her twin sister, Maria Elia, was one of the guerrillas who conducted the raid.
(6) The jailed Kurdish guerrillas' leader, Abdullah Öcalan , has used the Kurdish new year celebrations to call a ceasefire in the 30-year war with the Turkish state in the biggest boost to an incipient peace process in years.
(7) He travelled to China and wrote a book about his adventures, and he also visited Guatemala and wrote about the guerrillas, in Guatemala, País Ocupado (1967).
(8) Neither the guerrillas nor the army are saints here, but both had actually bent from their initial positions.
(9) This project in Ciudad Bolívar is run by the mayor of Bogotá, Gustavo Petro, who was also a guerrilla with M-19 and was then elected, in 2011, as the representative of a leftwing alliance called Progresistas.
(10) This time, however, her home was not under threat from Khmer Rouge guerrillas, but was instead demolished by armed construction workers, hired by a land development corporation to carry out one of the capital's most ambitious new property developments.
(11) The title came from an incident in 1975 when, as a young housewife in Salisbury, the capital of white-run Rhodesia, she made dinner at her home for a white liberal friend and Mugabe, then a fugitive guerrilla leader.
(12) The veteran had made his name in El Salvador almost 20 years earlier as head of a US group of special forces advisers who were training and funding the Salvadoran military to fight the FNLM guerrilla insurgency.
(13) The Conservatives last week turned to M&C Saatchi to reinvigorate their election campaign after two much- lampooned and spoofed efforts, while the launch of a guerrilla ad campaign, positioning Labour and the Tories as failed political facsimiles, is thought to have helped the Lib Dems.
(14) In a statement read after the deal was announced Uribe said it would “generate new violence” in the country and criticized the fact that it puts the guerrillas and army soldiers on the same level.
(15) Though he admits being involved in some "action" on the streets back in the UK, in Syria Abu Jamal's weapon of choice is a "Klash", the AK-47 assault rifle favoured by guerrilla groups around the world.
(16) The agents were waiting for the arrival of a flight from San Vicente del Caguán, a cattle-ranching town in the sweltering southern lowlands, the largest town in a region dominated by the country's most powerful guerrilla army - the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc).
(17) Its campaign would take two main forms: guerrilla wars such as that in Afghanistan and a series of spectacular and violent actions that would radicalise and mobilise all those who had hitherto shunned the call to arms, eventually provoking a mass uprising that would lead to a new era for the world's Muslims.
(18) But on the morning of 26 March 1996, as his team was preparing to start clearance work in a village in the province of Siem Reap, a group of 30 armed Khmer Rouge guerrillas emerged from the nearby forest.
(19) Forced to retreat, Kabila and his friends turned to the Cubans, and Che Guevara arrived on the Tanzanian-Congo border with a small contingent of guerrilla fighters in April 1965; Guevara recorded that Kabila "made an excellent impression", though he subsequently reconsidered this view.
(20) 2 January 2009: The military says Sri Lankan forces have entered the guerrillas' de facto capital, Kilinochchi, predicting it will fall within hours.