(n.) An extensive plain with or without vegetation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anopheles darlingi showed no irritability in neither the Atlantico nor Llanos regions, while An.
(2) Something like this had to happen.” Aaron Llanos, one of the few men in the rally.
(3) In the tropical savannas of Colombia, the Llanos Orientales, a field survey of 40 beef herds leased by farmers through a cooperative indicated that these herds had mean annual calving rates of 52 and 55 per cent in the Plains and Piedmont zones, respectively.
(4) Three cases of infanticide are reported from a well-studied population of wedge-capped capuchin monkeys, Cebus olivaceus, located in the Venezuelan llanos.
(5) The coast is mostly rocky, with coves and endless banana plantations; the two main towns (Los Llanos and Santa Cruz) conceal rainbow-painted colonial centres with a lazy cafe culture.
(6) Aron Llanos, 25, a business assistant, was one of the few men in the parade.
(7) Concentrations of 226Ra and 224Ra in 13 wells distributed throughout McCulloch and Mason counties in the Hickory Aquifer of the Llano Uplift Region of West-Central Texas are reported.
(8) It is closely related antigenically to Umatilla and Llano Seco viruses; these 3 agents appear to constitute a new serogroup within the genus Orbivirus.
Steppe
Definition:
(n.) One of the vast plains in Southeastern Europe and in Asia, generally elevated, and free from wood, analogous to many of the prairies in Western North America. See Savanna.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Soyuz capsule carrying Hadfield and two crewmates, the US astronaut Thomas Marshburn and the Russian Roman Romanenko, was expected to touch down on the Kazakhstan steppes at 3.31am BST.
(2) The species is recorded in the forest-steppe zone of the Ukraine.
(3) The forth step is the stratified mucous (steppe turtle) and stratified muco-ciliated epithelium (fetuses of birds, many mammals and man).
(4) The features of specific adaptation to Alpine, steppe and taiga zones are found against a background of expressed continental adaptive type.
(5) The farmer told me he'd had bison here as well, and other creatures of the prairies and steppes.
(6) Flannel flags (100 X 200 mm) were tested for fleas collection directly at the entrances of rodents' holes in the steppe region.
(7) In steppe zone foci cases of echinococcosis in humans are regularly recorded and a large stratum of seropositive subjects was revealed by the indirect hemagglutination and latex agglutination tests.
(8) n., from the steppe zone of the Ukraine is described.
(9) Blood-sucking mosquito fauna, season and circadian activity of predominant species, dynamics of hatching place formation in the villages and on the territories surrounding the Golodnaya and Dzhizakskaya steppes have been studied for many years and the materials have been presented.
(10) This is exemplified from the sheep production (utilization of the desert steppe under the conditions of the subtropical winter rain climate) and from the cattle production (utilization of the savannah under the conditions of the alternate humid tropical zone).
(11) Studies of land irrigation effect on Phlebotomus sandflies, carriers of Leishmania major (a zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis causative agent)--were performed for 15 field work periods, from 1967 to 1981, at 18 sites in various natural areas of the Karshi Steppe (Uzbek SSR).
(12) A T-shaped carrier with twin test objects is an inexpensive efficient visual field screening device which facilitated identification of a nasal steppe, a paracentral scotoma, an enlarged blind spot, an arcuate scotoma, macular sparing, or hemianopic defects.
(13) The autopsy of animals have shown that five species of six species of nematodes and one species of cestodes are common parasites of ruminants of the Ukraine steppe zone and two species are specific parasites of eland.
(14) The size of such immune stratum characterizes the activity of natural foci: the largest immune stratum (25.4%) exists among the population of regions with broad-leaved forests, this stratum is somewhat less (12.2-13.2%) in regions with combined coniferous and broad-leaved forest, in regions with different combinations of broad-leaved forests and steppes, as well as mountain forests.
(15) The use of current laboratory methods demonstrated a wide spread of HFRS virus in the territory of this country, involvement in the epizootic process of most species of forest and steppe murine rodents and insectivora.
(16) The Ascanian multi-foetus and pure-bred Karakul sheep reared in the steppe region of the Ukraine are characterized by five-allelic status of transferrin and by diallelic serum arylesterase and alkaline phosphatase.
(17) Again, that was long before I moved the market.” Steppe said Houser was believed to have taken phone calls.
(18) The results of the long-term investigations of the original Altai-Sayany inhabitants' morphophysiological features in connection with general research of adaptation to Alpine, steppe, taiga and desert ecological niches are represented in the article.
(19) A survey of the same human contingents (children under 14 years and adults) in different zones of Ukraine revealed the opisthorchiasis foci of different intensity in the northeastern part of Polesye and in the forest-steppe zone.
(20) Hydrologic characteristic of Dnepropetrovsk, which is situated in drought steppe zone, is presented.