(n.) One of the Insecta; esp., one of the Hexapoda. See Insecta.
(n.) Any air-breathing arthropod, as a spider or scorpion.
(n.) Any small crustacean. In a wider sense, the word is often loosely applied to various small invertebrates.
(n.) Fig.: Any small, trivial, or contemptible person or thing.
(a.) Of or pertaining to an insect or insects.
(a.) Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral.
Example Sentences:
(1) Employed method of observation gave quantitative information about the influence of odours on ratios of basic predeterminate activities, insect distribution pattern and their tendency to choose zones with an odour.
(2) Suspensions of isolated insect flight muscle thick filaments were embedded in layers of vitreous ice and visualized in the electron microscope under liquid nitrogen conditions.
(3) After treatment of larvae of instar 1 at preimago stages about 77% of the insects died.
(4) The presence of potential insect vectors and the occurrence of clinical signs are indications of active transmissions.
(5) Spectrophotometric tests for the presence of a lysozyme-like principle in the serum also revealed similar trends with a significant loss of enzyme activity in 2,4,5-T-treated insects.
(6) Radiation inactivation and simple target theory were employed to determine the molecular weight of an insect CNS alpha-bungarotoxin binding component in the presence and absence of a cross-linking reagent, dimethyl suberimate.
(7) Bacillus thuringiensis subspecies kurstaki (Btk) and subspecies berliner (Btb) both produce lepidopteran-specific larvicidal protoxins with different activities against the same insect species.
(8) Phyla as diverse as insects, birds, and mammals possess distinct HRAS and KRAS sequences, suggesting that these genes are essential to metazoa.
(9) Compounds identified as sex attractant pheromones in a number of phytophagous insects were found in a variety of host plants.
(10) casseliflavus from 43.5% of members of the 37 taxa of insects.
(11) This is the first demonstration of a 2-hydroxylated carotenoid in an insect.
(12) Among the most highly expressing transformed plants for each gene, the plants with the partially modified cryIA(b) gene had a 10-fold higher level of insect control protein and plants with the fully modified cryIA(b) had a 100-fold higher level of CryIA(b) protein compared with the wild-type gene.
(13) Expression of these two cDNAs in insect cells by recombinant baculovirus revealed that the alpha 1 subunit, after noncovalent association with the beta subunit, has the same potency as the native alpha subunit purified from the pituitary.
(14) We have examined the organization of the repeated and single copy DNA sequences in the genomes of two insects, the honeybee (Apis mellifera) and the housefly (Musca domestica).
(15) But pipeline opponents say that by moving beetles from the Nebraska sandhills and mowing miles of grass where the insects once lived, TransCanada has illegally begun construction on the project.
(16) The complete amino acid sequence of 147 residues was determined automatically for a major dimeric component (CTT VI) of the insect larva Chironomus thummi thummi (Diptera).
(17) Peptides B and C are isoforms of a 43-residue peptide which contains 6 cysteines and shows significant sequence homology to insect defensins, initially reported from dipteran insects.
(18) The results suggested that allergenic cross-reactivity between some fly species exists, and may extend to taxonomically unrelated insect species.
(19) The species studied were Triatoma infestans, Triatoma brasiliensis, Triatoma vitticeps, Triatoma pseudomaculata, Rhodnius prolixus and Panstrongylus megistus, and 34 to 348 insects were studied in each group (average, 190).
(20) There is evidence that they might predate on our native shrimps, on our insect larvae, possibly fish eggs.
Mantis
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of voracious orthopterous insects of the genus Mantis, and allied genera. They are remarkable for their slender grotesque forms, and for holding their stout anterior legs in a manner suggesting hands folded in prayer. The common American species is M. Carolina.
Example Sentences:
(1) He will not be easily replaced, but Ogletree is the top inside linebacker in this year's draft, boasting greater range and athleticism than the more talked-about Manti Te'o.
(2) Squilla mantis hemocyanin is composed of two hexameric subunits but has electron microscopic profiles different from other bis-hexameric hemocyanins, e.g.
(3) I felt like one of those mantis shrimps with trinocular vision."
(4) • Along with Smith, the other big story on day two of the draft was Manti Te'o – a player once viewed as a high first-round pick but who scared potential employers off with a combination of poor pre-draft workouts (he clocked 4.82 seconds in the 40-yard dash) and bizarre stories about fictional girlfriends .
(5) One looked as if a giant UFO had landed on its roof, another like a praying mantis about to pounce, another like it might take off for the moon.
(6) The mantis was able to attack prey throughout a large three-dimensional capture zone by changing body orientation relative to its perch.
(7) Notre Dame inside linebacker and part-time Catfish Awareness Spokesman Manti Te’o was supposed to wind up with the Vikings, yet they passed on him with all three of their eventual first-round picks.
(8) We have investigated how the binocular control of prey capture in the praying mantis is affected by abnormally large vertical disparities, which were introduced by prisms placed in front of the eyes.
(9) Proteins extracted from suboesophageal ganglia of Squilla mantis, an arthropod shown to be sensitive in vivo to opiates and to contain native opioid like peptide(s), were fractionated by gel filtration into three pools according to their molecular weight: A (Mr greater than 65,000), B (10,000 less than Mr less than 65,000) and C (Mr less than 10,000).
(10) Some species of mantis abruptly and dramatically alter their flight path when stimulated with ultrasonic pulses, suggesting a behavioral response to insectivorous echo-locating bats.
(11) We describe the electron microscopy of a crystalline assembly of an alpha-helical coiled-coil protein extracted from the ootheca of the praying mantis.
(12) The description of stages of the molt cycle in mantis shrimp (emphasizing Gonodactylus but compared in a number of Gonodactylidae, Squillidae, and Lysiosquillidae) includes data on texture, hardness, and color of the exoskeleton; behavior; and the micromorphology of the integument and developing setae.
(13) In fact, it resembles in many ways a small modular love seat, or a praying mantis.
(14) The animals were made out of auto parts, including these 12-foot mantis.
(15) These findings are contrasted with those from studies of mantis visual behaviour and a simple mechanism is suggested for how prey location is encoded to produce steering of the attack.
(16) Other insects with auditory tympana possess paired, laterally placed ears; the mantis has only a single ear that is located in the ventral midline between the metathoracic legs.
(17) Some creatures, it turns out, do it a little differently … The praying mantis In the kind of congress that makes Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct look like Kristen Stewart in The Twilight Saga, a successful mating of praying mantises (mantii?)
(18) The femal specific proteins (FSP) identified in the hemolymph of Squilla mantis females are here proven to be vitellogenins (VTG) by immunological and electrophoretical methods.
(19) To detect the presence of a mammalian-like enkephalin precursor in suboesophageal ganglia of Squilla mantis, an arthropod shown to be sensitive in vivo to opiates [8], protein acid extracts were fractionated by gel filtration into three large pools: A(Mr greater than 65,000), B(10,000 less than Mr less than 65,000) and C(Mr less than 10,000).
(20) The release came as one of the group's top 10 shareholders backed Labour leader Ed Miliband's call for a public interest test in big foreign takeovers , and a former AstraZeneca boss warned Pfizer could act like a praying mantis and "suck the lifeblood out of its prey".