(n.) A tailless marsupial (Phascolarctos cinereus), found in Australia. The female carries her young on the back of her neck. Called also Australian bear, native bear, and native sloth.
Example Sentences:
(1) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
(2) The proposed $1.2bn Shenhua coalmine in New South Wales has been given the go-ahead to destroy the habitat of 262 koalas, which will be moved to another location if the mine goes ahead.
(3) We examined phenotypic characteristics of six mannitol-fermenting strains of Streptococcus bovis, including two unusual CO2-requiring strains isolated from koala feces.
(4) Seventy free-ranging koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) from Magnetic Island (Queensland, Australia) underwent an ocular examination, blood collection and serological examination for Chlamydia psittaci antibodies, and an examination of their teeth and genitalia.
(5) Clinical signs, necropsy findings and histopathological changes are summarized for 43 macropods, two common wombats, two koalas, six possums, 15 dasyurids, two numbats, eight bandicoots and one bilby.
(6) No microbial growth was observed in pouch swabs from 13 of 17 (76%) koalas, including four females without young, seven with pouch young and two with back young (i.e.
(7) The $1.2bn Shenhua coalmine faces a significant setback after local landholders launched a legal challenge to the New South Wales government approval process over whether it properly considered the impact of the mine on the local koala population.
(8) The relative frequency and topographical distribution of endocrine cells containing gut hormones were studied by immunocytochemistry in the stomach gland patch of the koala.
(9) Seven of the 8 koalas with positive conjunctival swabs had overt signs of conjunctivitis, but only 3 of the 20 koalas with positive urogenital swabs had overt signs of 'wet bottom' (continual urine soiling due to cystitis) or purulent discharge.
(10) DNAs from eight Chlamydia psittaci isolates (koala conjunctivitis, avian psittacosis, avian ornithosis, ovine abortion, ovine polyarthritis, sporadic bovine encephalomyelitis, and feline conjunctivitis) and one Chlamydia trachomatis isolate (lymphogranuloma venereum) were compared by restriction endonuclease and DNA probe analyses.
(11) More than 40,000 hectares of koala habitat in Queensland has disappeared since the state’s land-clearing controls were weakened, a conservation group says.
(12) In the 18 koalas without chlamydia, one had overt conjunctivitis while 2 had past episodes of conjunctivitis.
(13) Gene probe analysis was also used employing a genus-specific probe pCKO-10 isolated from a koala chlamydial gene library (ocular strain) and a plasmid probe pCKU cloned from a urogenital strain.
(14) About halfway through the trip – we’ve just stopped to use a Nandos bathroom in a place called Lilydale – she informs me “we are going to meet a koala”.
(15) These data confirm that free-living koalas normally produce spermatozoa with a high incidence of structural heterogeneity almost solely confined to the head region; and demonstrate the utility and safety of conventional gamete and endocrine studies, approaches which will be useful for determining the impact of genetic isolation and venereal disease on species fertility.
(16) Immunoreactive cells were also seen in Brunner's glands: 5 types in the parma wallaby; 3 types in the great grey kangaroo and tiger cat; 2 types in the koala and common wombat; 1 type in the short-nosed bandicoot.
(17) Nocardia asteroides was isolated from one koala with extensive pneumonia, pleurisy and splenitis.
(18) These include animal embryos – platypus and wallaby – and specific body parts of other mammals, such as the arm of a koala.
(19) Last week, the Land and Environment court ruled in Shenhua’s favour in a case brought by the local Landcare group and the NSW Environmental Defenders Office regarding the loss of koala habitat.
(20) Tannin-protein complex (T-PC)-degrading enterobacteria (T-PCDE) were isolated from the feces and from a layer of bacteria attached to the cecal wall of koalas.
Pencil
Definition:
(n.) A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colors.
(n.) A slender cylinder or strip of black lead, colored chalk, slate etc., or such a cylinder or strip inserted in a small wooden rod intended to be pointed, or in a case, which forms a handle, -- used for drawing or writing. See Graphite.
(n.) Hence, figuratively, an artist's ability or peculiar manner; also, in general, the act or occupation of the artist, descriptive writer, etc.
(n.) An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point.
(n.) A number of lines that intersect in one point, the point of intersection being called the pencil point.
(n.) A small medicated bougie.
(v. t.) To write or mark with a pencil; to paint or to draw.
Example Sentences:
(1) Analysts have trimmed their profit forecasts for this year with trading profits of £3.3bn pencilled in compared with £3.5bn in 2012-13.
(2) There is a developmental sequence of pencil grasp, and useful development scales in copying cube models, drawing geometric shapes, and the draw-a-man test.
(3) Comparing results of different stereotests, e.g., random-dot stereograms and the two-pencil test, provides some insight into different levels of cortical binocular interaction.
(4) We took all the feedback from users and put pencil to paper to create our consumer 3D printer built for speed and ease of use,” said Pettis.
(5) The influence of the parameters' inclination and curving of condylar guidance, intercondylar distance, Bennett angle, distance of the plate, and position of the recording pencil are studied.
(6) A numerical example reveals some lesser known properties of the circle of least confusion of astigmatic pencils.
(7) A 5-year-old boy had an excisional biopsy of a pigmented scleral lesion thought clinically to be a foreign body, probably graphite from a pencil.
(8) said: “The Bank of England seems all but certain to ease policy, with only the scale and form of easing in question.” Monks is predicting a bigger cut than many of his peers in the City, pencilling in a drop in official interest rates to zero.
(9) An illusion is something done one way that looks the other, like if you put a mirror in front of a pencil so the pencil looks like it's somewhere else.
(10) Twenty-nine women were obtained from two community-based facilities and administered the 10-item Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EDPS) in a computerised and 'pencil and paper' form.
(11) Differential pencil beam (DPB) is defined as the dose distribution relative to the position of the first collision, per unit collision density, for a monoenergetic pencil beam of photons in an infinite homogeneous medium of unit density.
(12) While that is higher than the 1.6% decline that statisticians had previously pencilled in, it will have no impact on an initial estimate for first quarter GDP growth of 0.3% – half the pace in the previous three months .
(13) Some can't afford their own uniforms or pencil tins and we have to teach them the most basic things, like how to queue up for dinner,” said Cater-Whitham.
(14) The drugmaker has also pencilled in mid- to high-single digit growth from emerging markets, building on growth in China, where it saw revenues leap by 22% in the first quarter of this year.
(15) In recent years there has been growing conceptual interest in narcissism, coupled with the rapid development of several paper and pencil measures.
(16) A case of mediastinitis occurred following perforation of the pharynx by a pencil.
(17) His pencil or pastel notes, readjusts, notes again with more emphasis the advancing or receding edge of a continually moving body.
(18) The first scratch of an HB pencil across the fresh page of a new notebook.
(19) Sources say the Sun has pencilled in September for the erection of its paywall.
(20) Psychological instruments are usually developed to subjectively measure specific variables; however, there may not be a fit if the researcher used a paper-and-pencil instrument developed to measure anxiety in psychiatric patients to measure anxiety in the sedated, postanesthesia patient.