(a.) Eating plants; of or pertaining to the Herbivora.
Example Sentences:
(1) For example, most large extant lizards are herbivorous.
(2) Homocysteine thiolactone metabolism differs in guinea pig, an herbivorous species, and in rat, an omnivorous species.
(3) The cystic stages which occur in the flesh of herbivores are probably non-pathogenic but the earlier stages in which schizonts develop in vascular endothelium may be severely pathogenic.
(4) These specializations may be interpreted as adaptation toward a more herbivorous-frugivorous diet.
(5) The results are discussed in relation to the digestive physiology and feeding habits of the various species, and there is an examination of the feasibility of using linear regressions of crude protein in the diet v. N in the faecal DM for evaluating the quality of the diets selected by free-ranging East African herbivores.
(6) Remarkably, the ratio for adult rabbits is higher than in other monogastric herbivores and is instead similar to values for carnivores.
(7) 15 species were found on dung pellets of wild living herbivorous mammals.
(8) Herbivores often have a choice between poorer food that can be eaten fast and richer food that can only be eaten more slowly.
(9) Most of the parasites in the herbivorous species were trichurids and strongylids, whereas most of the parasites in the carnivorous species were ascarids.
(10) Potassium secretion by the nasal salt glands of the herbivorous desert lizard Sauromalus obesus was determined in vivo by a new technique.
(11) Two kinds of herbivorous rabbit-fish – the dusty spine-foot and its cousin the marbled spine-foot – have destroyed vast swaths of underwater seaweed forests in the eastern Mediterranean, after migrating through the Suez in recent decades.
(12) Of the lactose-free milk substitutes for children now available, it is recommended that Pregestimil, Glucose Nutramigen and particularly CFI be used for very young orphan marsupial herbivores (especially kangaroos), as these are both lactose- and sucrose-free.
(13) PCB and sigma DDT concentrations were greater in the predatory bottom animals than in the herbivores or detritus feeders, and the amounts of chlorinated hydrocarbons were greater in profundal animals than in littoral animals.
(14) Diversity of dietary intake with respect to plant food and animal protein is only one-third of the maximum divergence between strict herbivores and carnivores.
(15) All significant properties of the herbivore trophic level, including biomass, consumption and productivity, are significantly correlated with primary productivity across a broad range of terrestrial ecosystems.
(16) Optimal diet choices are predicted for herbivores with particular gut structures.
(17) The study of the aorta and coronary arteries from 25 chamois shot in their mountain natural habitat allowed the observation that this animal is more exposed to liposclerotic lesions than other wild herbivorous mammals which live in the plain or at low altitudes.
(18) Grazing herbivores (usually sheep or cattle) are the definitive hosts.
(19) Current estimates are that VFA contribute approximately 70% to the caloric requirements of ruminants, such as sheep and cattle, approximately 10% for humans, and approximately 20-30% for several other omnivorous or herbivorous animals.
(20) Differing strategies of adaptation to plant defenses may partly account for the great diversity of insect herbivores.
Rhinoceros
Definition:
(n.) Any pachyderm belonging to the genera Rhinoceros, Atelodus, and several allied genera of the family Rhinocerotidae, of which several living, and many extinct, species are known. They are large and powerful, and usually have either one or two stout conical median horns on the snout.
Example Sentences:
(1) The complete primary structure of the two hemoglobin components of the Great Indian Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) is presented.
(2) A black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) moved from a tsetse-free to a tsetse-infested area in Kenya was monitored for two months following translocation.
(3) beta NA1 Val, beta EF6 Lys and beta H21 His are identical with 2,3-bisphosphoglycerate-(DPG)binding sites in mammalian hemoglobins, whereby rhinoceros hemoglobin resembles both ATP-sensitive poikilotherm hemoglobin and DPG-sensitive mammalian hemoglobin.
(4) Proteinaceous extracts of deer and antelope antlers and bovine and rhinoceros horn were prepared by solubilizing 10 mg of horn sample in 200 microL of a solution containing 12M urea, 74mM Trizma base, and 78mM dithiothreitol (DTT).
(5) The dung of both the white rhinoceros, Ceratotherium simum, and the black rhinoceros, Diceros bicornis, is considered to be a possible alternative site for the immatures of C. kanagai.
(6) On the basis of structural similarity of the PP molecules, however, it would appear that the tapir is more closely related to the horse than to the rhinoceros.
(7) Vaginal cytology was not found to be helpful for indicating the oestrous cycle stage for the black rhinoceros, but progesterone and 17-beta-oestradiol levels were found to be useful indicators of pregnancy and possibly of oestrous cycle stage as well.
(8) A globular periodontal cementous dysplasia in a 18 years old black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) is diagnosed by gross pathology, X-ray, and by histological examinations.
(9) To investigate the syndrome of acute intravascular hemolytic anemia in the black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis), laboratory techniques used in the differential diagnosis of hemolytic anemias were performed on blood samples from 6 black rhinoceroses: 3 nonrelated healthy rhinoceroses, 1 rhinoceros with iron deficiency anemia, and 2 rhinoceroses with intravascular hemolysis.
(10) This report represents the first published information on intestinal ciliated protozoa in the African white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum Burchell, 1817).
(11) Rhinoceros skin is three times thicker than predicted allometrically, and it contains a dense and highly ordered three-dimensional array of relatively straight and highly crosslinked collagen fibres.
(12) Polyclonal antiglobulin reagents were prepared in rabbits, using whole rhinoceros serum and purified rhinoceros immunoglobulin G. These reagents were nonreactive against erythrocytes of the healthy and iron-deficient rhinoceroses.
(13) The Labour challenger will need the hide of a rhinoceros – and Angela Eagle is battle-hardened.
(14) He was the nonconformist hero of Ionesco’s Rhinoceros at the Royal Court in 2007 and the hedonistic historian in Rattigan’s After The Dance at the National in 2010 .
(15) She usually responds by telling me to buck up, or at least to grow skin as thick as a rhinoceros,” Clinton noted.
(16) Four taxa in three genera were examined: African Ceratotherium simum simum (northern white rhinoceros), C. s. cottoni (southern white rhinoceros), Diceros bicornis (black rhinoceros), and Rhinoceros unicornis (Indian rhinoceros).
(17) The rhinoceros-sized wombat, the ten-foot kangaroo, the marsupial lion, the monitor lizard larger than a Nile crocodile, the giant marsupial tapir, the horned tortoise as big as a car – all went, in ecological terms, overnight.
(18) As part of a study of the evolutionary development of the eye lens protein alpha-crystallin the 173-residue A chain of this protein has been studied in elephant, whale, hyrax and rhinoceros.
(19) They walked through a startlingly different landscape from today's, along the estuary of what may have been the original course of the Thames, through a river valley grazed by mammoths, hippos and rhinoceros.
(20) "As we see criminal networks getting increasingly involved - you see poachers with night vision goggles and high-powered rifles - you also see some rebel militias trading in ivory and rhinoceros horn as source of currency and value," Grant Harris, the state department's Africa director, told reporters travelling with Obama.