(a.) Feeding or subsisting on insects; carnivorous.
(a.) plants which have some special adaptation for catching and digesting insects, as the sundew, Venus's flytrap, Sarracenia, etc.
(a.) the Insectivora, and to many bats, birds, and reptiles.
Example Sentences:
(1) The second molars of insectivorous species were found to parallel closely those of leaf-eating species.
(2) Of 142 rodents and 3 insectivores studied, 37 (26%) were seropositive for IFA.
(3) These species approach condylarths and leptictid and erinaceoid insectivores in structure.
(4) Golgi impregnation of projection cells and most local-circuit neurons of layers III-VI suggests a relatively well-developed isocortex in this insectivore.
(5) Regular chewing was studied in the specialized Malagasy insectivore Tenrec ecaudatus with the aid of precisely correlated electromyography of the main adductors, digastrics, and two hyoid muscles and cineradiography for which metallic markers were placed in the mandibles, tongue, and hyoid bone.
(6) Although the final hosts of these species of Sarcocystis are not known, it is quite possible that man, monkeys, and perhaps the moonrat (an insectivore) may serve as common intermediate hosts for one or several species of Sarcocystis.
(7) Linear regression analyses against log body weight were performed on these data (log translated), along with data (except SCA) from the literature for insectivores and primates.
(8) The data were expressed in terms of progression indices which estimate how many times a given brain center is greater than that of a Basal Insectivore of the same body weight.
(9) Conditions of foliage forests with high grass, where occur hosts of all developmental phases of ticks (elks, hares, rodents, insectivores), are most favourable for I. persulcatus.
(10) Contrary to what one may expect from an insectivore, CP smell pleasant and faintly of honey.
(11) In insectivores and chiroptera the loops of the inner three-dimensional capillary network are stretched along the longitudinal axis of the organ.
(12) Methodological difficulties relating to feeding trials on first generation offspring of insectivorous small mammals caught in the wild are described.
(13) Thus, the VPo of man is more than 9 times larger than that of isoponderous average prosimians, and more than 230 times larger than that of isoponderous "basal' insectivores.
(14) The nasopharyngeal duct of Tupaia glis was studied and compared with other Primates and some Insectivores.
(15) Semi-fossorial species among rodents and insectivores are scratch-diggers.
(16) It was used to establish that the dark gut contents of individuals of five genera of insectivorous midges (Ceratopogonidae) was not blood.
(17) The present investigation reports light and electron microscopical aspects of the main olfactory epithelium (MOE) of the insectivorous bat Scotophilus heathi.
(18) From 1989-1991, the concentrations of heavy metals and selenium were studied in the feathers of fledgling cattle egrets Bubulcus ibis, a terrestrially-feeding insectivore, from New York and Delaware in the northeastern United States, from Puerto Rico, and from Egypt.
(19) The high frequency harmonics of the male cricket's natural calling song overlap the lower frequency range used by insectivorous bats (10-20 kHz) and are loud enough to elicit avoidance behavior in a flying female as she closely approaches a singing male (Fig.
(20) In tupaias, rat-sized mammals with phylogenetic affinities to insectivores and primates, gallstones can be induced by diet.
Rifleman
Definition:
(pl. ) of Rifleman
(n.) A soldier armed with a rifle.
Example Sentences:
(1) During the hearings, a colleague of Pritchard's, Rifleman Jeffrey Stanley, said he had heard over the radio that soldiers at Sangar could see people on the road.
(2) His family said in a statement: "Dan was a brave rifleman and he died doing the only profession he ever considered.
(3) For example, a single enemy rifleman firing from a hospital window would warrant a response against the rifleman only, rather than the destruction of the hospital,” the manual states.
(4) The most recent soldier memorialised is Samuel John Bassett, a rifleman killed last November by an explosion in Sangin, the town in Helmand which has become infamous as the most dangerous place for Nato soldiers in Afghanistan.
(5) "He saved lives in 2 Rifles time after time and for that he will retain a very special place in every heart of every rifleman in our extraordinary battle group.
(6) Rifleman Matthew Wilson, 21, was hit on his helmet during an ambush in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan , last October.
(7) Oddly for a man who spent so much time writing about historical battles in his fiction, in his own wartime memoir, Quartered Safe Out Here (1993), with its hard-bitten opening sentence, "The first time I smelt Jap was in a deep dry-river bed in the Dry Belt, somewhere near Meiktila," he told of the war as seen by a rifleman in an infantry platoon and ignored the big picture.
(8) On watch, a rifleman scoured the terrain – no sign of life, no shadows, shots from snipers, nowt to note or report.
(9) On New Year's Day 1914, a respected weekly literary publication carried a long article penned by an author referred to only as A Rifleman.
(10) According to MacMillan, Marinetti's vision appealed to those like A Rifleman on the radical left who wanted to "bust up the old world".
(11) It was not, as A Rifleman had hoped, an opportunity for physical and moral development, but a conflict of unparalleled destruction.
(12) Medical training aimed at the rifleman, aidman, and unit operational level for a Ranger Battalion is described.
(13) After an early triumph as a British TV heartthrob playing Mellors in Ken Russell’s Lady Chatterley and steely rifleman Richard Sharpe – a role that stirred a generation’s loins – he built a Hollywood career out of playing villains.