(n.) A term of endearment; darling; -- corrupted from honey.
Example Sentences:
(1) The problem now is to explain how mules and hinnies can occasionally produce spermatozoa or ova.
(2) The mule and the hinny remain man's only successful attempt at the production of a commercially viable interspecific mammalian hybrid.
(3) In China, where mules are bred extensively for work on the farms, a fertile female mule and a fertile female hinny have now been verified by chromosomal investigation.
(4) Furthermore, the hybrid mule and hinny conceptuses both produced PMSG with an FSH:LH ratio which was approximately midway between those of the horse and donkey.
(5) The production of PMSG was greatly reduced in mares carrying mule conceptuses and greatly increased in donkeys carrying hinny conceptuses.
(6) Dictyocaulus arnfieldi (Cobbold 1884) infects the respiratory tract of horses, donkeys, mules, hinnies and zebra.
(7) The homologues of horse IgGa, IgGb, IgGc and IgA were identified in normal donkey, mule, hinny and zebra serum.
(8) The number of genes encoding the common alpha-subunit and hormone-specific beta-subunits of the equine gonadotrophins (FSH, LH and CG) were investigated in the horse (Equus caballus), donkey (E. asinus) and 2 horse x donkey hybrids (the mule and hinny).
(9) Anecdotal reports of fertility in female mules (jack donkey x mare) and hinnies (stallion x jenny donkey) have appeared in the literature over the years, but scientists have generally regarded them with scepticism.
(10) The mule and hinny Southern blots showed a combination of the horse and donkey fingerprints, consistent with the presence of both genomes in these hybrids and consistent with the expression of both horse and donkey CG by hybrid conceptuses.
(11) The behaviour of the sex chromosomes of female mules and hinnies has helped to confirm the Lyon hypothesis about X-chromosome inactivation.
(12) Fetal genotype had no obvious influence upon progestagen production in mares, but donkeys carrying hinny conceptuses showed extremely high peripheral plasma progestagen concentrations when serum PMSG levels were elevated.
(13) A few mature spermatozoa were recovered from the ejaculate and epididymal flushings of the hinny.
(14) Rat testicular radioreceptor assays specific for FSH and LH were used to determine the FSH:LH ratio of PMSG produced by horse, donkey, mule and hinny conceptuses.
(15) Mules and hinnies, both males and females, carry equal amounts of horse and donkey cytochromes c. The same ratio is found in hinnies in preparations from heart tissue and from skeletal muscle.
(16) Abnormalities of pairing were observed in the mule and hinny in most germ cells at the pachytene stage of meiotic prophase, and spermatogenesis was alsmot totally arrested.
(17) In the majority of cases we found non-expression of the horse-derived NOR chromosomes in the hinny.
(18) Since the chromosomal differences between the two parental species are so great as to render normal meiosis impossible, it is postulated that all mules and hinnies are sterile.
(19) The studies make it clear that mule and hinny fertility, at least for the female hybrid, is a real possibility.
(20) The foals show unique hybrid karyotypes different from the mule's or hinny's and different from each other's.
Minny
Definition:
(n.) A minnow.
Example Sentences:
(1) For services to Elderly People through the Minnie Bennett Sheltered Accommodation Home for the Elderly in Greenwich South East London.
(2) Yet the proprietors, Minnie, Sweet Dave and her other colleagues, are nowhere to be found.
(3) August 11, 2014 Minnie Driver, who also starred in Good Will Hunting, tweeted her own tribute, along with a link to Williams’ acceptance speech for best supporting actor.
(4) Down at Abereiddy beach, we met our guide, Jethro, and a small group of potential coasteerers, plus, to Maddy's particular delight, Bea and Minnie.
(5) You can cycle this route , too: hire bikes from Viking Coastal Trail Cycle Hire (07772 037609, The Parade, Minnis Bay) at the start of the route.
(6) They arrived in Bristol with their daughter Minnie in the late 1880s.
(7) "Oh look," I observed slyly, "Minnie's done it and is climbing out."
(8) We’ve raised enough money to pay for all the children and their parents to get a meal, each child will get a gift from Santa Claus and there will be a chance to meet Mickey and Minnie Mouse, and the characters from the film Frozen.
(9) Born 1 April 1966 in Warrington, the youngest of three siblings, to Martin Evans, a sometime bookmaker, and Minnie Beardsell, manager of a corner shop.
(10) The second of these had been funded by the sale of three paintings to Marsh, but long before it appeared in April 1915 Rosenberg had realised he would be unable to earn his living by either his poetry or his painting and had gone to stay with his eldest sister, Minnie, in South Africa.
(11) I have a dog I got at the Battersea Dogs Home - Minnie - and now I have a year old dog called Boston.
(12) This might be why, after Good Will Hunting's Minnie Driver and Matt Damon broke up, rumours circulated that Driver and Smith were an item.
(13) The woman who bought the name did not respond to the Guardian's inquiries on Thursday, but she also appears to have snapped up the rights to name a low front Minnie later in the year .
(14) In one of the photographs, Abdul Waheed Majeed, 41, from Crawley, West Sussex, is seen wearing Minnie Mouse ears while he cuddles a girl and in another he kneels as children around him give the peace sign.
(15) Minnie has one A*, five As and four Bs, while Tallulah scored one A*, five As, three Bs and one C. Minnie, who will study RE, drama, film studies and sociology, said: "The exams were not easy but they were less stressful than the revision.
(16) Ornaments from home decorate the wall behind the sofa in the living room, next to a pink Minnie Mouse stuffed toy nestled inside a cot.
(17) The boycott threat was delivered as Sawiris, a Coptic Christian from the country's wealthiest family, was told he faces trial for blasphemy over an online cartoon he tweeted from his account last June depicting Mickey Mouse with an Islamic beard and a veiled Minnie Mouse.
(18) Tarantino opens with a lengthy sequence in a stagecoach as it tries to beat an incoming blizzard to the nearest shelter, Minnie's Haberdashery.
(19) "That's all me, baby – I drank a lot of coffee that day," she trills in her Minnie Mouse-ish voice, halfway between a giggle and a gurgle.
(20) As Jeremy Paxman, another moaning minnie, said of the BBC: "The worst thing you can be in this industry now is a middle-class white male."