(n.) A toothed delphinoid cetacean, of the genus Grampus, esp. G. griseus of Europe and America, which is valued for its oil. It grows to be fifteen to twenty feet long; its color is gray with white streaks. Called also cowfish. The California grampus is G. Stearnsii.
(n.) A kind of tongs used in a bloomery.
Example Sentences:
(1) We examined four dolphins (Grampus griseus) of 582 mass-stranded.
(2) Seventeen specimens representing nine cetacean genera (Delphinus, Stenella, Tursiops, Grampus, Delphinapterus, Globicephala, Kogia, Mesoplodon, and Phocoena) were studied post mortem.
(3) Nagoya Grampus Grampus being the Latin name of the Risso dolphin.
(4) The Nagoya Grampus striker will get all the headlines, but it was the man who played in the cross whose role was decisive.
(5) Larynges of 24 odontocetes representing ten genera (Delphinus, Stenella, Lagenorhynchus, Tursiops, Grampus, Delphinapterus, Globicephala, Kogia, Mesoplodon, and Phocoena) were studied post mortem.
(6) In 1759, a 24ft grampus or orca was caught at the mouth of the river and brought to Westminster bridge on a barge.
(7) Novakovic earns his living in Japan with Nagoya Grampus, the 10th club of a 17-year career.
(8) I am sure we can.” During his 18 years in charge the man who arrived as a virtual unknown from the Japanese side Grampus Eight has helped drag English football blinking into the modern era, revolutionising the domestic game’s thinking on an array of subjects from tactics to sports science to the mass importation of foreign players.
(9) In 1772, another grampus, 18 feet long, was caught; in 1788, 17 sperm whales stranded on the Thames' lower reaches.
(10) Colombia coach José Pékerman and former Nagoya Grampus manager Dragan Stojkovic had also been touted as candidates to replace Zaccheroni.
(11) In the novel he began to plan, he despatched his protagonist (the rhythm of whose name suggests Edgar Allan Poe), in a whaler, the Grampus, on an extraordinary voyage to the southern seas, following (as it were) Coleridge's Ancient Mariner .
(12) Colombia’s coach José Pékerman and the former Nagoya Grampus manager Dragan Stojkovic had also been touted as candidates to replace the Italian.
Orca
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Example Sentences:
(1) Japan should undertake some DNA research in Japanese fish markets, where endangered whales - including orcas and humpbacks - are being sold as minke whales.
(2) Last month, toymaker Mattel announced that it would no longer produce a SeaWorld version of its Barbie doll, which came dressed as a SeaWorld orca trainer.
(3) Its breeding programme is probably doomed by a combination of regulation (Californian authorities last year refused redevelopment plans for its San Diego site unless it stopped breeding orcas) and the fact that its virile male, Tilikum, appears to be dying .
(4) Partly out of recognition of Tilikum's huge size – at 12 tonnes he is the largest orca in captivity – and partly out of knowledge of the past, the park's 28 trainers were never allowed to swim with him.
(5) Would people bring their children to SeaWorld if they knew the cruelty behind the orca whale circus show?
(6) SeaWorld has long known this but accepts that abnormal (even desperate) orca behavior ... is the price paid for this form of human entertainment and company profit,” the court documents say.
(7) It asks whether a large corporation that makes money from the orca whales in its amusement parks has covered up dangers to the trainers and to the whales.
(8) The documentary implies that the orcas are driven to psychosis – and attacking humans – by the cruelties and indignities of their imprisonment.
(9) It is the second time SeaWorld has been sued in less than three weeks, after a similar class action lawsuit was filed in California last month alleging the company is misleading the public by claiming its captive killer whales, or orcas, are happy and thriving.
(10) It had previously issued a steady stream of lower-key newspaper ads, trying to push back aggressively against the message presented by Blackfish and the pall that was cast over the company when, in late 2009 and early 2010, trainer Alexis Martineau was killed by a SeaWorld-owned orca on loan to a Spanish theme park, and another trainer, Dawn Brancheau, was killed by a giant male orca during a show at SeaWorld in Orlando.
(11) But none of the conditions that led to these tragedies have truly changed for him, for the trainers, or for other orcas.
(12) The completeness of the amino acids composition of Orca meat proteins enables it to utilize this raw material for obtaining valuable food products in the form of concentrates or hydrolysates.
(13) Its five-day Orcas and Northern Lights break, staying in Grundarfjordur , costs from £1,148pp, with flights and full-board.
(14) They are also beautiful, rugged and rainforested, with views to the Rockies, and bays where you can often see orcas and humpback whales.
(15) The story she unravelled about Tilikum, a male orca at SeaWorld that was involved in the deaths of three people, turned her into an inadvertent activist.
(16) • Park website , Sacajawea Interpretive Center San Juan Islands national monument Facebook Twitter Pinterest An orca in San Juan Islands.
(17) They include excoriating cinematic treatments of Indonesian death squads, evangelical homophobia in Uganda, the uprising in Tahrir Square and an attack on the incarceration of orca whales in marine parks.
(18) SeaWorld lawsuit alleges orcas are drugged and confined in 'chemical tubs' Read more The environmental advocacy and research group Earth Island Institute, based in Berkeley, California, is advising the legal team representing the plaintiffs.
(19) At multiple points, the trainers attest to the orcas’ advanced emotional and mental characteristics, yet see no problem with locking that intelligence up for mere circus spectacle.
(20) The proteins of the Orca meat contain all the amino acids, including essential ones.