(a.) Of or pertaining to Ionia or the Ionians; Ionic.
(n.) A native or citizen of Ionia.
Example Sentences:
(1) Antipaxos Morpheus, Ionian Villas, Antipaxos Where to stay: Ionian Villas Fewer than 100 people live on Antipaxos, and accommodation is hard to come by.
(2) The frequency of G6PD deficiency, ranging from 7.2% on the Ionian Coast to zero on the eastern side of the Lucanian Apennines, appears to be inversely related to the distance of each town examined from the Ionian Coast, suggesting that this geographic distribution may reflect, at least in part, gene flow from Greek settlers.
(3) A gun-metal grey speedboat powers across the still Ionian Sea until the cypress trees of the largest private estate in Corfu heave into view and the pilot kills the engine.
(4) Three subsamples were examined, two from the Tyrrhenian and the Ionian coasts, respectively, and one from the internal part of this province.
(5) The practice of empirical ophthalmology during the Ottoman domination of Greece is also examined, as is the earliest available evidence of modern Greek ophthalmological knowledge, deriving from the Ionian Islands.
(6) 20-26 August, reclaimyourself.co.uk BEST FOR SUN Hatha in Ithaca, Greece Facebook Twitter Pinterest International teachers lead different weeks between May and October at Itha108 , a gorgeous island retreat just five minutes from the Ionian sea, where accommodation is split between a Venetian-style house and five Mongolian-style yurts.
(7) The creditors would not get any money back and yet Europe would be obliged to come to the aid of Greece or risk a failing state turning into a failed state on the Aegean and the Ionian.
(8) Lastly, Kythira is strictly part of the Ionian islands, but is most easily reached from the Peloponnese.
(9) Zakynthos could act as a distillation of the whole Ionian - bits of the coast have been overtaken by package tourism, but away from these there are still isolated coves and a mountainous interior.
(10) Although chancellor Angela Merkel is not among them, the local media has been merrily listing German MPs who have elected this summer to holiday on sun-blessed Greek isles in the Ionian, Aegean and Mediterranean seas, including Richard Pitterle, of the Die Linke party, Green party MP Beate Muller-Gemmeke, and Erik Schwenkert, who represents the FDP party.
(11) The highest incidence of G6PD deficiency is on the Ionian Coast and along the Crati and Esaro river valleys, in good agreement with the distribution of the past malarial endemicity.
(12) jomason1 Ionian Islands Avli Taverna, Corfu Town, Corfu The Avli Taverna, in a secluded bay, is so beautiful you could sit there all day as the sun sets.
(13) Runs 12-19 and 19-26 March adventureyogi.com B Ionian inversions, Zakynthos, Greece Facebook Twitter Pinterest Soulfood London runs a creative retreat combining daily yoga and photography lessons at Villa Zaharoula , which overlooks the Ionian sea.
(14) All the Ionian islands reflect the influence of nearby Italy, but Corfu also has a distinct British tinge.
(15) It still manages to sport great beaches – some claim they are the Ionian's best.
(16) Greek island holiday guide: the Ionian islands Read more Chios and Lesbos also hug the Turkish coast.
(17) We missed out on the fine beaches (it has a coastline that bridges two seas – the Adriatic and the Ionian), the Greek and Roman ruins at Butrint, the town of Gjirokastra (Nobel laureate Ismail Kadare , who was born there, describes it as "the steepest city in the world … unbelievable [and] dreamlike"), not to mention the capital city, Tirana.
(18) There are some 6,000 Greek islands, scattered across the Aegean and Ionian seas, ranging from Crete, the biggest at more than 3,000 square miles, to tiny rocky islets barely big enough for a single sunbed.
(19) The PGM1*1S, PGM1*2S and PGM1*2F gene frequency estimates obtained for the population of the Ionian coast were significantly different from those of the tyrrhenian coast.
(20) Ithaka lacks the stunning sands of some of the other Ionian islands.
Pleistocene
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the epoch, or the deposits, following the Tertiary, and immediately preceding man.
(n.) The Pleistocene epoch, or deposits.
Example Sentences:
(1) Amino acid analyses have been made of the insoluble protein, soluble peptide, and free amino acid fractions isolated from a series of fossil pecten shells of ages from the Pleistocene through the Jurassic.
(2) Genetic data on present human population relationships and data from the Pleistocene fossil hominid record are used to compare two contrasting models for the origin of modern humans.
(3) The present study on 47 naturally fractured enamel surfaces of premolar and molar teeth of Plio-Pleistocene East African hominids measured enamel thickness, slope of incremental lines (striae of Retzius), and the morphology of Hunter Schreger bands (HSBs).
(4) The subocclusal morphology of 168 permanent mandibular premolars (N = 77) and molars (N = 91) of Plio-Pleistocene hominids has been investigated.
(5) The morphological comparison shows strong affinities to comparative material from the Upper Pleistocene like Cro-Magnon.
(6) The cultural associations in the earlier late Pleistocene are with the Middle Stone Age.
(7) The latest fossil is the only intact skull ever found of a human ancestor that lived in the early Pleistocene, when our predecessors first walked out of Africa.
(8) The diets of these Plio-Pleistocene hominids appear to have been qualitatively dissimilar.
(9) The concentration of climate-warming carbon dioxide is now higher than at any time since the dawn of humans 2.6m years ago, an event itself marked by a new geological epoch called the Pleistocene.
(10) The morphology of the nasal bones and their articulations with the adjoining frontal and maxillary bones have recently been reported in Nature and elsewhere to be diagnostic of hominoid taxa, and cladistic analysis based on these features has been used to assign two immature Plio-Pleistocene hominoids (AL 333-105 and Taung) to different lineages (Paranthropus and Homo, respectively).
(11) Pilbeam and Gould have discussed African Plio-Pleistocene hominid evolution in the context of allometry (size-dependent morphological change).
(12) The antiquity of the lesion is demonstrated by its appearance among late Pleistocene human remains.
(13) glabrata (Say, 1818) from upper Pleistocene (or Holocene) based on paleontologic and stratigraphic data and in agreement with shell morphology.
(14) The dwarfing of large mammals on islands occurred repeatedly in the Pleistocene.
(15) The coefficient of variation of ECV that characterizes a group composed of all Plio-Pleistocene gracile hominids does not support a single polytypic species interpretation of this assemblage.
(16) Extinctions occurred throughout the European Pleistocene, but until the late Pleistocene most losses were replaced by the evolution or immigration of new species, and most of those lost without replacement were small mammals.
(17) Fragmented mandibles of two Pleistocene lions (Panthera leo atrox) recovered from Yukon Territory possessed acquired pathological changes and congenital abnormalities, judging from the anatomy of contemporary and modern lions.
(18) Associated fore- and hindlimb parts of five individuals are known from the hominid Plio-Pleistocene fossil collections in Africa.
(19) The ancient Pleistocene call of the moon, of salt in the blood, and genetic encoding buried deep in the chromosomes back there beneath the layers of culture – and counterculture – are making successful businesswomen, professionals and even the mothers of grown children stop and reconsider.” The metaphor of the biological clock sounded less florid than the metaphors that followed, but it evinced the same determinism.
(20) The former model infers multiple regional archaic-modern connections and the ancient establishment of regional characteristics, whereas the latter model implies only an African archaic-all modern relationship, with recent (late Pleistocene) development of regionality.