(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.
Stipes
Definition:
(n.) The second joint of a maxilla of an insect or a crustacean.
(n.) An eyestalk.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cadmium and copper content was determined by atomic absorption spectrophotometry from four tissue types; young blade, old blade, young stipe and old stipe.
(2) The ratio of xylitol DH to sorbitol DH was greater than unity in both monokaryotic mycelium and dikaryotic fruit body caps, whereas this ratio decreased in the stipe (stalk) tissue.
(3) Coming across like a journey into a desperate mind, Stipe's vocals sound more naked than they've ever been before.
(4) The peculiar percussion in the song's middle-eight – helicopter blade whirrs, and a distant shouting army – sound especially fierce against Michael Stipe's distant, spoken-word testimony.
(5) Neymar wriggled past Sime Vrsaljko by the goal-line, crossed low and from the clearance Oscar’s booming left-footed shot was saved by Stipe Pletikosa.
(6) In a series of tweets posted on the account of bandmate Mike Mills, Stipe said: “Go fuck yourselves, the lot of you – you sad, attention-grabbing, power-hungry little men.
(7) 12.42am BST 83 min: Croatia goalkeeper Stipe Pletikosa is forced to gallop off his line and make a rare save, diving at the feet of Salli to block a shot.
(8) Mexico were in the ascendancy by the mid-point of the second half, with Vedran Corluka clearing off his line following a corner and Stipe Pletikosa saving from Paul Aguilar with his foot.
(9) Photograph: Tom Jenkins for the Guardian Ins Juan Cuadrado (Fiorentina, £26.8m) Outs André Schürrle (Wolfsburg, £24m), Mohamed Salah (Fiorentina, loan), Mark Schwarzer (Leicester, free), Fernando Torres (Milan, free), Todd Kane (Nottm Forest, loan), Tomas Kalas (Middlesbrough, loan), Lewis Baker (Sheffield Wednesday, loan), Marko Marin (Anderlecht, loan), Nathaniel Chalobah (Reading, loan), John Swift (Swindon, loan); Stipe Perica (Udinese, loan), Ryan Bertrand (Southampton, undisc) José Mourinho had hoped for a quiet window, the usual flurry of out-going loans aside, but the dissatisfaction of Schürrle and Salah at bit-part roles forced his hand .
(10) A few of them – Michael Stipe of REM was one – even said they would invest.
(11) Michael Stipe saw Electrolite as a farewell song for the 20th century, with LA being the perfect location for such a subject.
(12) 6 Country Feedback Recorded in one take for Out of Time , released in 1991, the words allegedly off a piece of paper that never had a complete lyric on it, Michael Stipe has claimed this to be his favourite REM song (at other points, he's also given this honour to Perfect Circle , and 1986's Fall on Me) .
(13) The main accumulation of mannitol was in the pileus and stipe of the sporophore and was accompanied by a decrease in the soluble protein content of these tissues.
(14) Do not use our music or my voice for your moronic charade of a campaign.” Though the statement spoke broadly about “the lot” of politicians, Mills prefaced it with the stipulation that it reflected Stipe’s opinion on Trump.
(15) At the site of crucifixion, his wrists were nailed to the patibulum and, after the patibulum was lifted onto the upright post (stipes), his feet were nailed to the stipes.
(16) Different levels of a given inhibitor were needed to prevent stipe formation, apothecial formation or mycelial germination.
(17) Trehalase activity in dialyzed enzyme extracts showed pH optima at acid and alkaline pH levels in monokaryotic mycelium, dikaryotic stipes, and cap tissues.
(18) We examined 300 stipes of leavens coming from various material.
(19) Michael Stipe, meanwhile, asks: “Who better than Naomi to make sense of this madness, and help us find a way out?” Does she recognise the danger that she is preaching only to the converted, and further entrenching our polarised politics?
(20) Indeed, had Mbia shown more composure when winding up from 20 yards, Stipe Pletikosa may have been called into action.