What's the difference between insectivorous and tody?
Insectivorous
Definition:
(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.
Tody
Definition:
(n.) Any one of several species of small insectivorous West Indian birds of the genus Todus. They are allied to the kingfishers.
Example Sentences:
(1) He left England for Barcelona in 1979; when the bars and boys became too much for him, he moved to Italy, where he now maintains homes in Rome and in the Umbrian hill town of Todi.
(2) In this situation spinal section reduced Todi, which became close to the values obtained in intact or spinal cats under SPB anesthesia.
(3) The mean force of cardiac contraction (IJ amplitude) was consistently lower in the group destined todie early than in the other two groups during the first 18 months.
(4) Most post-transfusion hepatitis tody is neither viral hepatitis type B nor type A, and its severity and transmission are reduced by pre-transfusion gamma-globulin.
(5) In addition, Tdi measured during tracheal occlusion (Todi) was markedly prolonged under ECC anesthesia.
(6) Everybody is tody in agreement to admit that 35 to 45 minutes are the security limit of the cardiogenous circulatory stop.
(7) A new type of enzyme hydrolyzing the elastase substrate succinyl-L-alanyl-L-alanine-4-nitroanilide has been found in cell-free rheuma todi synovial fluid.