(n.) One of several species of valuable food fishes of the genus Epinephelus, of the family Serranidae, as the red grouper, or brown snapper (E. morio), and the black grouper, or warsaw (E. nigritus), both from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.
(n.) The tripletail (Lobotes).
(n.) In California, the name is often applied to the rockfishes.
(2) It soon became a standard text for aspiring Young Conservatives and Bow Groupers in the days before the Thatcherite tide had engulfed even those institutions.
(3) "There are some friends in the first few Groupers that are still couples, together almost two years later from that.
(4) Barracuda should never be eaten, and travelers should exercise caution when considering other fish dishes, notably, grouper and red snapper.
(5) Equilibrium dialysis studies employing epsilon-dinitrophenyl-amino caproic acid were conducted with purified grouper antibodies specific for DNP.
(6) Smeeters Smeeters A French site now available in the UK that is not unlike Grouper.
(7) The Q-sort items were ranked very similarly for Helpfulness in the group experience by the growth groupers and by Yalom's successful group psychotherapy outpatients.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Grappling with grouper … diving off Garajau beach I tried scuba-diving from Garajau beach in Caniço; the clear water of this protected marine reserve is teeming with big, friendly mero (grouper) and surprisingly tropical-looking fish, such as rainbow wrasse and damsel fish.
(9) The temperature dependency of protein synthesis was studied in vivo in five species of Pacific fish collected in the Galapagos and Perlas Islands: batfish (Ogcocephalus darwini), groupers (Epinephelus labriformis), catfish (Netuma platypogan), puffers (Arothron hispidus) and triggerfish (Sufflamen verres).
(10) Although the AVG grouper works under limited conditions, important questions remain concerning its validity and usefulness.
(11) From giant grouper to tiny eels that inhabit the anuses of sea cucumbers, its creatures amaze the thousands who visit it each year, as well as the millions who watch it virtually through nature documentaries.
(12) Other notable events caught on camera this week include – a grouper eating a 4ft shark in one gigantic bite and a crocodile chasing a swimmer to shore.
(13) The giant grouper, Epinephelus itaira, was shown to synthesize 16 and 6.4S antibodies specific for the dinitrophenyl determinant (DNP).
(14) Confirmed ciguatera poisoning is reported in three Canadian adults who ingested grouper imported from Florida.
(15) Blood stages, similar to C-blood protozoans observed from freshwater fish in Europe, were found from peripheral blood smears of grouper.
(16) Suspected fish included grouper, red snapper, and amberjack.
(17) Studies on the thermodynamic parameters of the hapten-antibody interaction showed the grouper 16 and 6.4S antibodies to be similar to each other.
(18) "There are some basics: you know that when you go to a Grouper that there are going to be three people there, and they've been screened and matched to you manually.
(19) Rolling out city by city makes matchmaking easier, but it means that only a tiny portion of the UK and US can use the site so far; and along similar lines, it has only become large enough to support same-sex Groupers in a few American cities.
(20) is described from grouper, Epinephelus malabaricus, in cage-cultured and wild fish collected from both coastal lines of southern Thailand.
Perch
Definition:
(n.) Any fresh-water fish of the genus Perca and of several other allied genera of the family Percidae, as the common American or yellow perch (Perca flavescens, / Americana), and the European perch (P. fluviatilis).
(n.) Any one of numerous species of spiny-finned fishes belonging to the Percidae, Serranidae, and related families, and resembling, more or less, the true perches.
(n.) A pole; a long staff; a rod; esp., a pole or other support for fowls to roost on or to rest on; a roost; figuratively, any elevated resting place or seat.
(n.) A measure of length containing five and a half yards; a rod, or pole.
(n.) In land or square measure: A square rod; the 160th part of an acre.
(n.) In solid measure: A mass 16/ feet long, 1 foot in height, and 1/ feet in breadth, or 24/ cubic feet (in local use, from 22 to 25 cubic feet); -- used in measuring stonework.
(n.) A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.
(v. i.) To alight or settle, as a bird; to sit or roost.
(v. t.) To place or to set on, or as on, a perch.
(v. t.) To occupy as a perch.
Example Sentences:
(1) A sensitive radioimmunoassay (RIA) for the measurement of metallothionein (MT) from perch (Perca fluviatilis) has been developed.
(2) • earthseasky.org North Zakynthos Potamitis Brothers, North Zakynthos Where to stay: Potamitis Brothers The brothers run boat trips (see below), but also own some rather special accommodation perched on the cliffs of Cape Skinari on the northern tip of Zakynthos.
(3) We tested 1,145 isolates from fresh and spoiling irradiated (0.0, 0.3, and 0.6 Mrad) yellow perch fillets for proteolytic activity, by the use of both media.
(4) In order to determine the most suitable cage environment for the squirrel monkey, a series of studies were carried out to compare various perch materials and cage configurations.
(5) Peering out from his Kremlin perch, Putin sees a European continent divided between wealthy and poor countries, between north and south, and senses an opportunity.
(6) Just a whisper between us, its about time some of the old guard got a hoot under their perch.
(7) Does he fancy winning the league again & knock Liverpool right off their perch?"
(8) Only a slight induction in monooxygenase activities was seen in perch caught near the oil spill 4 months after the accident.
(9) Those who remember the Two Davids of the 1987 SDP-Liberal Alliance will recall the exquisite agony only too well, cruelly captured by the Spitting Image puppet of little Steel perched in big Owen's pocket.
(10) Kerry McQuade whose home perched high up on Blenheim Street avoided the worst effects, said: "We had two hours of a torrential downpour, followed by continual rain, from lunchtime.
(11) The same phenomenon was observed for the perch and Crusian carp, with low nitrate concentrations, while with higher nitrate concentrations, the uptake levels were again increased.
(12) The rest of the week he drives to other city centres and commercial sites, with Emu sitting on a perch in a large wooden box in the back of the van.
(13) The separation of two isoforms of rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) metallothionein was possible by DEAE-Sephadex A-25 chromatography, while only one form of perch (Perca fluviatilis) metallothionein was obtained with this method.
(14) Lines of Syrian army troops circle Qerdaha, adding an additional defence to the natural protection offered by the mountain it perches on, overlooking Latakia.
(15) Cells of the gas gland of the perch Perca fluviatilis L., stimulated to increased generation of gas by the repeated emptying of the swim-bladder, were examined in the electron microscope.
(16) The total lipid content in the muscle of perch (Perca fluviatilis) and vendace (Coregonus albula) was less than 50% of that in rainbow trout and a seasonal variation was clear only in vendace.
(17) Perched in a grove of poplars and with prayer flags stretching away on all sides, Muktinath is Nepal's second-most sacred site for Hindus after Pashupatinath , which in comparison lies rather forlornly at the end of Kathmandu's international airport runway.
(18) Therefore we suggest that this purified form of cytochrome P-450 is a BNF-induced form in perch and that it is closely related to the gene subfamily cytochrome P-450 IA1.
(19) The Five senior programme controller, Chris Shaw, said: "Ten years on from the famous perch people are still obsessing with soft furnishings and the desk.
(20) The fortress-like villages perched on rocky mountaintops we saw when we visited the north of the country are reminders that Yemen has constantly been invaded, or otherwise meddled with, by outsiders, from the Turks onwards.