(n.) A South American ruminant (Auchenia llama), allied to the camels, but much smaller and without a hump. It is supposed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco. It was formerly much used as a beast of burden in the Andes.
Example Sentences:
(1) A tumor involving the caudal portion of the brainstem was detected at necropsy after euthanasia of a 1-month-old llama with clinical signs consistent with vestibular disease.
(2) Llamas and alpacas, like dromedaries, have an extra fetal membrane that is derived from the epidermis of the fetus.
(3) Fecal, urine, and methane energy losses of the llamas fed near-maintenance intake were 32.5, 3.5, and 7.1% of gross energy intake, respectively.
(4) When it emerged that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had gone missing, he tweeted: "It occurs to me: All our good news on the economy is currently as submerged and lost as the Malaysian Airlines flight recorder..." The MP, whose Twitter avatar is a character from figure-skating comedy Blades Of Glory, also joked about having a relationship with a llama.
(5) In association with the watery amniotic fluid of llamas, the epidermal membrane is slippery, facilitating delivery of the fetus.
(6) A llama, a miniature horse, and a miniature donkey with severe bilateral congenital flexural deformities of the metacarpophalangeal and metatarsophalangeal joints were treated successfully by arthrodesis with dynamic compression plating or external skeletal fixation.
(7) Llamas and alpacas thus were refractory to a second copulatory or GnRH stimulus with regard to LH release for up to 24 h following an initial ovulatory release of LH.
(8) Three llamas (3.3%) had endometritis with gland fibrosis that was graded 2B.
(9) The cycle of the seminiferous epithelium of the llama was divided into eight stages, using as criteria the shape and distribution of the germ cell nuclei, the location of the spermatids, the presence of meiotic figures and the release of spermatozoa from the tubular wall.
(10) Hematologic values and cellular morphologic features were evaluated for 38 healthy adult llamas.
(11) N-terminal sequence analyses directly on an immobilon polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) membrane, following Western blotting of both native and SDS-denatured llama whey proteins after polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, revealed three different forms of glycosylated alpha-lactalbumin, and a protein with a high degree of homology with a camel whey protein of unknown function.
(12) The effects of lactational status and reproductive status on patterns of follicle growth and regression were studied in 41 llamas.
(13) The incidence of detectable antibodies to this mycoplasma in 554 alpacas was 5.0 per cent and in 141 llamas 15.6 per cent.
(14) Blood counts of healthy juvenile and adult llamas (Lama glama) and guanacoes (L guanacoe) showed that guanacoes have higher red cell counts, haemoglobin values and packed cell volumes than llamas.
(15) Plasma samples of alpacas and llamas were analysed by a simple method of two-dimensional (2-D) agarose gel (pH 8.6)-horizontal polyacrylamide gel (pH 9.0) electrophoresis, followed by general protein staining of gels.
(16) Llamas in nearly every region of the United States have had titers in approximately 12% of samples tested, suggesting that infection with the organism may be widespread.
(17) Yohimbine and 4-aminopyridine in combination rapidly antagonized xylazine-induced sedation in llamas, whereas doxapram was ineffective as an antagonist of xylazine-induced sedation.
(18) Values for several of these tests were different from those reported for llamas and from reference values for other domesticated ruminants.
(19) One of the seronegative llamas died acutely without production of detectable antibodies, and the other developed antibodies typical of a primary immune response.
(20) The results show that there was higher hemoglobin concentration and higher oxygen capacity in blood from the fetal llama compared to the fetal sheep.
Pope
Definition:
(n.) Any ecclesiastic, esp. a bishop.
(n.) The bishop of Rome, the head of the Roman Catholic Church. See Note under Cardinal.
(n.) A parish priest, or a chaplain, of the Greek Church.
(n.) A fish; the ruff.
Example Sentences:
(1) Make Quinn stay with B613 I think it would be difficult to bring her back to the fold at Pope and Associates (unless they’re playing the long con and her infiltration of B613 is part of the plan), but her anger would be well utilized against her former coworkers.
(2) The pope has written in his encyclical of the urgent need to reduce climate change gases.
(3) Pope Francis’s no-longer-secret meeting in Washington DC with anti-gay activist Kim Davis, the controversial Kentucky county clerk who was briefly jailed over her refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses in compliance with state law, leaves LGBT people with no illusions about the Pope’s stance on equal rights for us, despite his call for inclusiveness.
(4) World leaders must reach a historic agreement to fight climate change and poverty at coming talks in Paris, facing the stark choice to either “improve or destroy the environment”, Pope Francis said in Africa on Thursday.
(5) It was a waspish summary in which he noted that, while Pope Francis "may have renounced his own infallibility", Margaret Thatcher never did.
(6) He called for care for the environment to be added to the seven spiritual works of mercy outlined in the Gospel that the faithful are asked to perform throughout the pope’s year of mercy in 2016.
(7) He was protected by the pope, because his art – forgotten today – was rated at the time.
(8) William Burroughs called the film director John Waters "the pope of trash".
(9) Photograph: Vatican TV 4.21pm GMT Why does the pope choose a new name anyway?
(10) The pope, whose foray into diplomacy helped spur negotiations between the US and Cuba , is expected to address the topic in a speech before the UN in New York in September.
(11) The eye-catching deal was that punters would have their stakes returned if the winning pope was black – or something like that.
(12) Pope is at once sympathetic and terrifying, and it's a measure of Washington's performance that she has to reassure me she's nothing like Pope in real life.
(13) The helicopter with Pope Benedict XVI aboard flies past St Peter's Square at the Vatican.
(14) The former Argentinian cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was selected in March as the first Latin pope.
(15) In any village in South Kivu, his arrival is much like the arrival of the pope – throngs of people greet him, thousands of women whose lives he has saved or healed or touched celebrate him.
(16) After that the new pope will be brought out to greet the crowd.
(17) Pope Francis was kind, genuinely caring, and very personable,” her statement continued.
(18) The pope’s support of Davis and others objecting to same-sex marriage and actively trying to keep people from marrying will result in more bigotry and discrimination against us, and is at variance with his overall message of inclusiveness.
(19) The mayor is a good person, but no one invited him, certainly not officially … The pope was furious.” While the prank provided fodder to critics of the mayor, it also underscored a more serious issue between the Vatican and Rome just a few months ahead of the church’s jubilee year of mercy, which begins on 8 December.
(20) The voice of the Pope lifting up these issues is very very important to the work that we are doing, but we have to be cautious,” he said.