(n.) One of several northern sea birds, allied to the auks. They have short legs, placed far back, and are expert divers and swimmers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Far below, the boulder-strewn beach is almost unvisited, save for gulls and guillemots.
(2) The chief cause of sickness and death in the Guillemots was oil-contamination.
(3) To assess the possibility that organochlorine pesticide disruption of osmoregulation is responsible for recent large kills of young seabirds, we have studied the effects of DDE feeding (10-250 ppm) on plasma osmoregulation and nasal gland function in the following species: mallared and white Pekin ducks (both Anas platyrhynchos), black guillemot (Cepphus grylle), and common (Fratercula arctica).
(4) Changes in Mb and LDH in the Pigeon Guillemot correlate with the animal's maturation from a sedentary nest sitter to an active diver and flyer.
(5) She had seen it in trouble, identified it as an exhausted guillemot and aimed to take it to the seal rescue centre in Mablethorpe for some R&R.
(6) Its Marxist owner, Matthieu Guillemot, who is a spokesman for the Anti-Capitalist party, says "a real battle is starting now.
(7) At the Chesil beach centre a mile or so down the coast, assistant warden Angela Thomas was busy rescuing seabirds – guillemots, razorbills, and a single fulmar – battered by the storm.
(8) As for viruses one Guillemot was found to have an Adenovirus and another one to have a Paramyxovirus.
(9) MFO activity was measured for adult Leach's storm-petrels (Oceanodroma leucorhoa), guillemot (Uria aalge) and Atlantic puffins (Fratercula arctica).
(10) In Kittiwakes and Guillemots mainly Spiruroideae were recorded.
(11) Between 1982 and 1985 the cadavers of 50 Guillemots (Uria aalge), 41 Kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla), 26 Herring Gulls (Larus argentatus) and 34 Black-headed Gulls (Larus ridibundus) were examined pathological, bacteriological and virological.
(12) The concentration of myoglobin (Mb) and the isozymic distribution and activity of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) in heart and pectoralis muscle were investigated at three stages of maturation of the Pigeon Guillemot, Cepphus columba.
(13) Liver DDE levels in experimental ducks and guillemots were comparable to those reported for seabirds found dead after kills; levels in starved experimental puffins were much higher.
(14) Rathlin has one of the UK’s largest seabird colonies, including guillemots, razorbills and puffins, and the lighthouse is home to the RSPB West Light Seabird Centre .
(15) Sea temperature changes are threatening the availability of sandeels , a major food source for seabirds including kittiwakes and guillemots, whose colonies in Scotland have seen major population crashes .
(16) An algorithm powers the Discover section on Spotify, which is a visual mish-mash of songs and artist suggestions based on previous listening and friends’ activities, as well as the wider community: “People who listen to Laura Marling are also listening to Guillemots” and the like.
(17) Guillemots (Uria aalge) swallow fish head first when they are fed, when they pick up fish from the ground and when hunting.
(18) An Taisce , the National Trust for Ireland, has accused the Irish government of “going to the dark side” by handing over once more a remote island off the coast of Kerry, home to bird species including puffins, peregrine falcons and guillemots, to the Star Wars franchise.
(19) "There are the ingredients here for a mini-revolution, we can frighten the government," says Guillemot.
(20) A guillemot swims underwater by the Farne Islands off the Northumberland coast, northern England.
Murre
Definition:
(n.) Any one of several species of sea birds of the genus Uria, or Catarractes; a guillemot.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Elias Murr complained that the cables were "inaccurate" and taken out of context.
(2) We propose that the major site of gluconeogenesis from amino acids in the murre is the liver, since this is a much larger organ than the kidney and has a cytosolic form of PEPCK necessary for gluconeogenesis from oxidized substrates.
(3) Gluconeogenesis in vitro was determined in both hepatocytes and kidney tubules isolated from 3-day-fasted murres.
(4) Natural pox infection occurred in a free-living, immature common murre (Uria aalge) in northern California.
(5) A novel toxic cyclopeptide from Amanita suballiacea (Murr.)
(6) At the University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR), the code MCNP has recently been used to calculate doses in a phantom.
(7) PEPCK in murre kidney was present only in the mitochondrial compartment.
(8) Cubes of Douglas-fir wood decayed by Poria weirii (Murr.)
(9) An epidemiological study on caries in 1,091 primary school pupils in the Rems-Murr area revealed improvement in oral health as compared with results of earlier studies in the Federal Republic of Germany.
(10) Therefore, a second beam that is less difficult to build and install, but of lower neutron current, has been designed to fit in MURR port F. This beam is designed using inexpensive A1, S, and Pb.
(11) In 2006 the Lebanese defence minister, Elias Murr, told US diplomats that Mughniyeh was "very active in Beirut", hinting that he was involved in a spate of murders of Lebanese politicians who were hostile to Syria.
(12) While in chickens, the existence of a liver form of pyruvate kinase is controversial, the liver form of pyruvate kinase in pheasants, murres and puffins is electrophoretically distinct from that in muscle, brain, kidney, lung and small intestine.
(13) Total body lipogenesis was similar in the murre and the chicken.
(14) Adenovirus-like particles were identified by transmission electron microscopy in intranuclear inclusion bodies in the renal collecting tubules of a male common murre.
(15) Bioassay-directed fractionation of the n-hexane extract of the stem of Rhus semialata Murr.
(16) This tick infests nesting colonies of the common tern, roseate tern, sandwich tern, herring gull (northern and Mediterranean races), common cormorant, shag, razorbill, common murre, black-legged kittiwake, and probably other marine birds nesting nearby.
(17) Lebanon's defence minister, Elias Murr – reported in other leaked documents as telling US officials that the army would not involve itself in a future Israeli attack on Lebanon – said the allegations sought to cause unrest.
(18) Sequence analysis of one cloned MuRRS element revealed several possible open reading frames with partial sequence homologies to retroviral gag, pol and env genes.
(19) Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK) in murre liver occurs in both cytoplasmic and mitochondrial forms.
(20) The liver contributes 10.4% to whole body lipogenesis in fed murres when measured in vivo using 3H2O.