(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.
Salamander
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of Urodela, belonging to Salamandra, Amblystoma, Plethodon, and various allied genera, especially those that are more or less terrestrial in their habits.
(n.) The pouched gopher (Geomys tuza) of the Southern United States.
(n.) A culinary utensil of metal with a plate or disk which is heated, and held over pastry, etc., to brown it.
(n.) A large poker.
(n.) Solidified material in a furnace hearth.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study demonstrates that while carbonic anhydrase inhibition is toxic to the red-backed salamander, Plethodon cinereus, it does not have the same teratogenic effect on limb regeneration as seen in mammalian limb development.
(2) Temperature-dependent variability in sperm nuclear incorporation helps explain the variability in reproductive modes reported for hybrid salamanders.
(3) A model of the reproductive ecology of female dusky salamanders was used to investigate the allocation scheme that a female might use to maximize her reproductive success.
(4) Plethodontid salamanders capture prey by projecting the tongue from the mouth.
(5) Measurements were made on locomotor performance (burst run and swim speed, run and swim endurance), morphology (body, tail, and hindlimb length, body mass), and skeletal muscle mechanics (isometric: twitch and tetanic tension, rates of force development and relaxation; isotonic: maximal velocity of shortening and power output) in a size range of individual salamanders (Ambystoma tigrinum nebulosum) at 10 and 20 degrees C. The size dependence of each factor was determined, and the interindividual correlations among factors were measured after removal of size effects.
(6) In decerebrate salamanders reflex responses were recorded between pairs of cut hind limb nerves.
(7) These results are discussed in terms of possible mechanisms for the establishment of innervation territories in salamander limbs.
(8) Remarkably comparable observations from parallel experiments in salamanders and mice utilizing three related model systems (implant-induced immunomanipulation; passive transfer; and putative B cell suppression) argue directly that functional humoral transplantation immunity is highly developed at the phylogenetic level of Amphibia and that it plays a major role in regulating graft survival in these species (Fig.
(9) Changes in membrane potential and temporal patterns of spikes were analyzed in 30 output cells in the salamander olfactory bulb in response to stimulation with 1-s pulses of the odorants isoamyl acetate, cineole, and camphor.
(10) Characteristics of cutaneous gas exchange in amphibians were studied by analysis of the equilibration kinetics of an inert test gas in salamanders which have neither lungs nor gills.
(11) Cobaltic-lysine complex was used to label the afferent and efferent components of the glossopharyngeal nerve in the ganglion and brainstem of the Mexican salamander, axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum).
(12) On the ground beneath their feet lived salamanders, amphibians and plenty of mammals, including the badger-sized beast, repenomamus, which dined on dead dinosaurs.
(13) In contrast to the salamander, smaller differences were observed for both the roof and the floor of the bullfrog's olfactory sac.
(14) Physiological properties of developing nerve-muscle junctions were studied in regenerating limbs of adult salamanders.
(15) The present double-label immunocytochemical analysis of the tiger salamander retina was performed to determine if gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-like immunoreactivity is expressed by serotonin-immunoreactive amacrine cells.
(16) In respect of morphology, the taste organs of the salamander occupy an intermediate position between the taste buds of Urodela and taste discs of Salientia.
(17) Preycatching behaviour in salamanders (Salamandra salamandra L.) was studied before (60 larvae) and after metamorphosis (50 juveniles) to find out whether there are differences in releasing mechanisms depending on the developmental stage.
(18) Ethological reproductive isolation and genetic divergence across 26 protein loci were measured among populations of the salamander Desmognathus ochrophaeus in the southern Appalachian Mountains.
(19) Thus, in the salamander the hearing is invariably binaural.
(20) The present electrophysiological and behavioral experiments address this issue using tiger salamanders, Ambystoma tigrinum, and four compounds (amyl acetate, cyclohexanone, butanol, and d-limonene).