(n.) Any whale of the genus Megaptera, characterized by a hump or bunch on the back. Several species are known. The most common ones in the North Atlantic are Megaptera longimana of Europe, and M. osphyia of America; that of the California coasts is M. versabilis.
(n.) A small salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha), of the northwest coast of America.
Example Sentences:
(1) Next year they will target 50 fin whales, 50 endangered humpbacks, and another 925 minkes.
(2) Some fields had lightly furrowed brows, others deep gullies and humpbacked hills.
(3) Japan should undertake some DNA research in Japanese fish markets, where endangered whales - including orcas and humpbacks - are being sold as minke whales.
(4) This communication briefly reviews knowledge of the systemic disease caused by Crassicauda boopis in blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus), fin whales (B. physalus) and humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
(5) An increased food supply has recently been cited for a large increase in the number of humpback whales off Massachusetts.
(6) Tackle the Humpback Dolphin trail and watch the surfers crest waves at Pollock Beach.
(7) Season of invasion coincides with the period of migration of calico and humpback salmon which are additional hosts of Diphyllobothriidae.
(8) He notes the proposed project site is near the Santa Lucia Bank, an area “very heavily used” by blue, fin, sperm and humpback whales.
(9) Humpback whale-watching cruises depart daily from Dalvík, 10 miles south.
(10) He says there are stunning coastal walks, opportunities to see humpback whales and plenty of swimming holes.
(11) The critical period of limb development in southern minke whale was shown to be at a stage between that in the small sized species; Common Porpoise, Phocoena communis and Striped Dolphin, Prodelphinus caeruleoalbus, and in large one; Humpback Whale, Megaptera nodusa.
(12) This projection demonstrates the anatomy, allowing assessment of fractures, the humpback deformity, and the shape of the scaphoid after grafting.
(13) My best experience was swimming with humpback whales: their size is incredible and they have the most extraordinary song, it's beautiful and really rather haunting.
(14) Once on land, humpbacks took human form and did good, and evil.
(15) The 9.5m (28ft) carcass of the humpback had been spotted by members of the British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) off Gravesend on Thursday, who had initially guessed it was a minke whale, but no further sightings were reported until the animal was found dead on Saturday.
(16) The spontaneous collapse of the two scaphoid fragments produced a dorsal angulation or "humpback" deformity that simulated the clinical situation of displaced scaphoid nonunions.
(17) His team has seen humpbacks “lunge feeding”, where the whales rise up under giant shoals and take hundreds of thousands of pounds of fish into their mouths in one gulp, filtering out the seawater through their baleen grills and swallowing the fish.
(18) The comparisons also showed that the humpback whale and the gray whale were approximately equidistant from the blue whale and the fin whale (genus Balaenoptera).
(19) Observations of marked individuals suggest that major oceanic populations of humpback whales are divided into a number of distinct seasonal subpopulations which are not separated by obvious geographic barriers.
(20) Grey, minke and humpback whales as well as dolphins also visit the islands.
Hunchback
Definition:
(n.) A back with a hunch or hump; also, a hunchbacked person.
Example Sentences:
(1) According to genetic analysis, the spatial limits of the Kr expression domain are controlled by the morphogenetic activities of the anterior organizer gene bicoid (bcd) and the anterior gap gene hunchback (hb).
(2) This pattern of expression is altered in mutants for a gap gene (hunchback) and a pair-rule gene (fushi tarazu).
(3) The graded distribution of bcd protein defines position along the anterior-posterior axis of the embryo through the spatially restricted activation of subordinate targets such as the gap gene hunchback (hb).
(4) Ectopic expression of tll under the control of an inducible promoter results in differentiation of ectopic terminal-specific structures, the Filzkörper, and leads to the activation of at least one gene, hunchback, that is required to form these structures.
(5) He was English history's most famous hunchback, but a sharp tailor and a skilful armourer may have disguised the curve in his spine, according to experts who examined the skeleton which has been identified as Richard III's.
(6) Members of this class include hunchback (hb), knirps (kni), and Krüppel (Kr).
(7) Most of the thoracic and abdominal segments of Drosophila are specified early in embryogenesis by the overlapping activities of the hunchback (hb), Krüppel, knirps, and giant gap genes.
(8) Previous genetic studies suggest that one of the stripes, stripe 2, is initiated by the maternal morphogen bicoid (bcd) and the gap protein hunchback (hb), while the borders of the stripe are formed by selective repression, involving the gap protein giant (gt) in anterior regions and the Krüppel (Kr) protein in posterior regions.
(9) Within this hunchback-free domain the pattern of abdominal segments must be specified by other morphogens, possibly by shorter range gradients of the products of zygotic gap genes Kruppel, knirps and tailless.
(10) I picture her small enough to hold in your hand, and she’s with her brothers and sisters; they’re all normal little dogs and then there’s this tiny hunchback.
(11) In Drosophila embryos, graded activity of the posterior determinant nanos (nos) generates abdominal segmentation by blocking protein expression from maternal transcripts of the hunchback (hb) gene.
(12) In contrast, Krüppel is a transcriptional repressor that can block transcription induced either by hunchback or by several different homeo box proteins.
(13) He won an Oscar nomination and a César for Cyrano de Bergerac and is best-known in Britain for his role as the benighted and hunchback tax-collector turned farmer in Jean de Florette .
(14) We conclude that we have identified the hunchback gene because three mutations that inactivate hb physically interrupt or delete this gene.
(15) The first zygotic group of genes, which are thought to respond to the spatial cues provided by the maternal genes, are the gap genes, whose members include hunchback (hb), Krüppel (Kr) and knirps (kni).
(16) Moreover, the PBX pattern is completely suppressed in embryos containing uniformly distributed maternal hunchback protein.
(17) Tudor propagandists, especially Shakespeare, ensured Richard has been seen as hunchbacked for centuries.
(18) By the time the family realised that the older woman was severely undernourished, she had already developed a hunchback from the nutrition deficiency.
(19) Most notable is the finding of hunchback expression in 11-13 stripes shortly before gastrulation, as well as a delayed expression of terminal domains of various genes.
(20) We have studied the ability of the Drosophila gap proteins Krüppel and hunchback to function as transcriptional regulators in cultured cells.