(n.) Any South American monkey of the genus Mycetes. Many species are known. They are arboreal in their habits, and are noted for the loud, discordant howling in which they indulge at night.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results suggest that observer performance with devices that use ratemeters or howlers can be enhanced by improving the mode of count-rate presentation.
(2) Our findings are used to infer the original habitat in which proto-red howlers may have acquired such adaptations and to hypothesize that climbing and its related anatomy are a primitive condition for anthropoids.
(3) In addition, in late February and early March, 2 infected howler monkeys (Alouatta sp.)
(4) Originally published in Howler magazine It was an unseasonably cold October night in the urban moonscape that is Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland .
(5) Morphological adaptations to climbing (a scansorial mode of quadrupedal, arboreal locomotion practised on twigs and small branches) are identified by relating anatomical details of limb bones to a sample of 6,136 instantaneous observational recordings on the positional behavior and support uses of 20 different free-ranging, adult red howlers.
(6) As the half closed, a Ben Foster howler which saw him carrying the ball over the line for a corner had the fans behind his goal singing how he was "England's No5".
(7) Her performance was so forensically focused in almost every respect, it makes her Morgan howler all the more surprising.
(8) Loud calls of adult male red howlers (Alouatta seniculus) inhabiting a deciduous and semideciduous open woodland site in Venezuela were recorded opportunistically and categorized by ear and sonographically as barks and roars.
(9) The first one was the howler and everybody connected to Arsenal did howl, especially the big German.
(10) Among the most significant variables, the skin of sloths, howlers and macaques constitutes more than 12% of body weight, whereas greyhound skin is 5% of weight; sloth and howler muscle are 25% of weight, macaque muscle about 40% of weight, greyhound and agouti muscle over 50% of weight.
(11) Thanks to my Howler ed and sometime Guardian contributor George Quraishi for that... 8.16pm BST 36 mins Zusi twists and turns near the byline to pick out his cross, but having done the hard work his cross is poor and the Germans clear.
(12) This is an edited version of a feature that originally appeared in Issue 09 of Howler magazine.
(13) Observer performance was better with the multichannel scaler and HRM III than with either the ratemeter or the howler.
(14) I think I heard the prime minister come out yet again on the wireless the other day with that pre-Keynesian howler – much in vogue with the German economic establishment – that when the private sector cuts back, it makes sense for the public sector to cut back too.
(15) The predominantly herbivorous diet of the howler and baboon is responsible for modification in the configuration of the hyolaryngeal apparatus.
(16) Iusually am impressed by Simon Jenkins, but his polemic in today's Guardian on the Edward Snowden affair was well below par and full of howlers.
(17) In 1960 Adolph Schultz described several cases of plagiocephaly in a collection of mantled howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata) from the forests of Central America.
(18) If this is the case, then howler monkeys may be a good model to study the cause(s) of craniosynostosis.
(19) Howler plasma cross reacted with antihuman apoA-I antibodies but not with antihuman LDL antibodies.
(20) Comparisons of dietary data, estimated energy expenditures, and habitat productivity provide indications of the degree to which a habitat is capable of supporting the energy and other nutritional requirements of howler and spider monkeys living within the study area.
Wolf
Definition:
(a.) Any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus Canis and closely allied to the common dog. The best-known and most destructive species are the European wolf (Canis lupus), the American gray, or timber, wolf (C. occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man.
(a.) One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf.
(a.) Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.
(a.) A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.
(a.) An eating ulcer or sore. Cf. Lupus.
(a.) The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament.
(a.) In bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective vibration in certain notes of the scale.
(a.) A willying machine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brewdog backs down over Lone Wolf pub trademark dispute Read more The fast-growing Scottish brewer, which has burnished its underdog credentials with vocal criticism of how major brewers operate , recently launched a vodka brand called Lone Wolf.
(2) A total of 38 patients underwent attempted percutaneous extraction of upper tract calculi with the Wolf nephroscope.
(3) I still can’t figure out who this is aimed at: I’m imagining characters who think they’re in Wolf of Wall Street, with such an inflated sense of entitlement that even al desko meals need to come with Michelin tags.
(4) Two second generation lithotripters suitable for treatments without invasive forms of the anesthesia, the modified Dornier HM 3- and the Wolf Piezolith 2,200 were compared in terms of efficacy for ureteric calculi.
(5) So that you know he's evil, he is dressed like a giant, bedraggled grey duckling, in a fur coat made up of bits of chewed-up wolf.
(6) A young literature student accused him of manipulating the language, and then – at the end – another woman noted that he spoke very nicely before declaring him “a wolf in sheep’s clothing”.
(7) One female wolf had a single sinoatrial block within 1 min of receiving tolazoline HCl.
(8) McVeigh may have thought of himself as a lone wolf, but he was not one.
(9) A multicenter trial is presented involving the Siemens Lithostar, Dornier HM4, Wolf Piezolith 2300, Direx Tripter X-1 and Breakstone lithotriptor to compare the therapeutic efficacy of second generation machines.
(10) The 4(p14-pter) region was found to be the most likely crucial segment for the Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome.
(11) In resurfacing the nose the author has used Wolfe grafts when the cartilages are not involved or a tubed flap from the arm if this is not so.
(12) One wolf had been killed and another attacked by wolves.
(13) · Daniel Wolf directed Inside the Orange Revolution, to be shown on BBC4 on Sunday at 10pm.
(14) Important experimental considerations in setting up a spot photobleaching instrument are discussed in detail in Chapter 10 by Wolf (this volume) and elsewhere (Petersen et al., 1986a).
(15) T he image of the lone wolf who splits from the pack has been a staple of popular culture since the 19th century, cropping up in stories about empire and exploration from British India to the wild west.
(16) They paid a reward for killing a wolf worth a month’s salary.
(17) "They are essentially abandoning wolf recovery before the job is done," said Noah Greenwald, the endangered species director at the Centre for Biological Diversity.
(18) In 2013 , a 16-year-old boy was lounging outside his tent at a Minnesota campsite when a wolf clamped its jaws around his head.
(19) The sequence analysis indicates that bovine lung PGF synthase shows 62% identical plus conservative substitutions compared with human liver aldehyde reductase [Wermuth, B., Omar, A., Forster, A., Francesco, C., Wolf, M., Wartburg, J.P., Bullock, B.
(20) "There is a saying in our language that goes 'the wolf can change its fur but doesn't change its character' so that can apply to the newly elected president," Vukcevic said.