(n.) Any parrot of the genus Sittace, or Macrocercus. About eighteen species are known, all of them American. They are large and have a very long tail, a strong hooked bill, and a naked space around the eyes. The voice is harsh, and the colors are brilliant and strongly contrasted.
Example Sentences:
(1) A repeated isolation of Malassezia pachydermatis Weidman from a scarlet macaw is reported.
(2) Psittacine proventricular dilatation syndrome (macaw wasting disease) is a fatal disease of the gastrointestinal tract and, sometimes, the CNS.
(3) A trial was conducted to determine the suitability of using a pelleted diet containing chlortetracycline (CTC) for treatment of chlamydiosis in macaws.
(4) Inoculations of partially purified homogenates of a cloacal papilloma from a yellow-crowned Amazon did not induce lesion formation on cloacal mucosa of an adult yellow-crowned Amazon, green and yellow macaw, sulphur-crested cockatoo, or mollucan cockatoo.
(5) Lady Cockburn is a bountiful loving mother, her children playful scamps - and even Reynolds's pet macaw gets into the picture, introduced for balance, but adding just a hint of the exotic, and of empire.
(6) Carcinoma in situ was diagnosed in the cloaca of a macaw in addition to the other 16 macaws with papillomas.
(7) Diagnosis of Escherichia coli septicemia and enteritis in a hyacinth macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus) was based on lesions such as generalized hyperemia and hemorrhages in visceral organs, fibrinonecrotic lesions in the intestine, and isolation of E coli in pure culture from the heart blood, liver, and intestine.
(8) Juniper speaks and writes on many aspects of sustainability and is the author of several books, including the award winning Parrots of the World, Spix’s Macaw and How Many Light Bulbs Does It Take To Change A Planet?
(9) No completely automatic program is likely to deal effectively with all the complexities of the multiple alignment problem; by combining a powerful similarity search algorithm with flexible editing, analysis and display tools, MACAW allows the alignment strategy to be tailored to the problem at hand.
(10) Based on the fact that the bacteria had been detected from the patient's sputa after feeding a macaw, but was not detected after treatment of the bird with OFLX, a diagnosis of respiratory tract infection by P. multocida was made.
(11) She lives on her own these days or, as she says, “with my bird” (a 25-year-old macaw); happily so, she insists, after a string of not always happy romances, including a long love affair with the singer David Byrne , which ended four or five years ago.
(12) Between September 1977 and November 1978, chlamydiosis (psittacoisis) was diagnosed in 52 of 128 parrots, 5 of 12 cockatiels, 2 of 5 cockatoos, 3 of 6 macaws, 1 of 22 conures, 2 of 18 lovebirds, and 6 of 76 parakeets; 2 lories and 1 lorikeet were chlamydiosis negative.
(13) We have developed for this purpose an interactive program, MACAW (Multiple Alignment Construction and Analysis Workbench), that allows the user to construct multiple alignments by locating, analyzing, editing, and combining "blocks" of aligned sequence segments.
(14) There were no significant differences between mean plasma gentamicin concentrations for cockatoos and macaws at any time after drug administration, except at 12 hours, when values for cockatoos were significantly (P less than 0.05) greater than those for macaws.
(15) As the sky turned lilac, I saw hundreds flutter past – red and blue macaws in pairs, companies of green parrots, flotillas of ibis gliding in elegant V-formation, as well as toucans, nightjars, lapwings and pauraques.
(16) Papilloma-like masses affecting the cloaca of 19 Amazons, 16 macaws, 3 parrots, 1 conure, and 1 parakeet were examined.
(17) The composition of a number of parrot foods commercially available in the Netherlands was put to the test for the (partly hypothetical) needs of the larger psittacine birds such as African Grey parrots, Amazon parrots, macaws and cockatoos.
(18) Clinical manifestations of subcutaneous filariasis in a yellow-collared macaw (Ara auricollis) included lameness induced by subcutaneous nodule formation, which was attributed to the presence of the filarial parasite Pelecitus sp.
(19) This survey also resulted in the first reported identification of Cryptosporidium oocysts from a budgerigar, macaw, and tundra swan.
(20) A 550-bp product with identical restriction enzyme sites was amplified from a suspected polyomavirus isolated from a peach-faced lovebird (Agapornis pesonata) and from tissue DNA from a Hahn's macaw (Ara nobilis) and a sun conure (Aratinga solstitialis) with histological lesions suggestive of polyomavirus infection.
Sabre
Definition:
(n.) A sword with a broad and heavy blade, thick at the back, and usually more or less curved like a scimiter; a cavalry sword.
(v. t.) To strike, cut, or kill with a saber; to cut down, as with a saber.
(n. & v.) See Saber.
Example Sentences:
(1) Kim has ruled the country since his father, Kim Jong-il, died in 2011, and his early tenure has been marked by sabre-rattling and repeated nuclear tests.
(2) Known as Global Distribution Systems (GDS), the technology dates back to the 1960s, when one of the first companies in the field, Sabre, was founded.
(3) A s Michael Howard’s flag-waving, sabre-rattling, Madrid-baiting intervention made clear, Gibraltar can occupy an oddly atavistic place in some corners of Britain’s collective psyche.
(4) The local undertakers were pleased to discover the great Henty to be the man they had always imagined - a full-bearded giant, stern and wise, dressed like a warrior hero or - much the same thing - a Victorian gentleman with the whiff of gunpowder and the clash of sabres about him.
(5) A member of the anti-balaka holds a grenade and a sabre at a checkpoint in Pissa, CAR.
(6) The undercover agents also supplied thousands of dollars in cash for Ferdaus to buy the F-86 Sabre miniature plane to be used in an attack.
(7) Accusing Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, of “sabre-rattling”, he said the UK commitment to a new Nato rapid reaction force is to be extended by three years, with 1,000 troops sent next year and 3,000 in 2017.
(8) Any good economic news is likely to be seized upon by a Spanish government that has had to resort to sabre rattling over Gibraltar to keep a corruption scandal off the front pages.
(9) Russia’s nuclear sabre-rattling is unjustified, destabilising and dangerous Jens Stoltenberg In blunt language, the Nato chief delivered a scathing critique of Russia’s behaviour over the past year – including Moscow’s armed intervention in Ukraine – and vowed the transatlantic alliance would redouble its commitment to “collective defence”.
(10) The WWF has warned that the Iberian lynx, found only in Spain and Portugal, could become the first big cat to go extinct since the sabre-tooth tiger died out 10,000 years ago.
(11) Two cases of 'sabre sheath' trachea in combination with mediastinal lipomatosis are reported.
(12) Internationally, Iran is locked in a stalemate with the west over its nuclear programme and it has recently responded to attempts at banning its oil imports by sabre-rattling and raising the stakes by threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz, a vital passageway in the Gulf where one-fifth of the world's oil passes in tankers.
(13) This sabre-rattling – in the midst of a recession – is beyond stupid.
(14) During a 7-10 day span, circadian rhythms of sleep-wake, self-rated fatigue and mood, oral temperature, eye-hand skill and right and left hand grip strength were investigated in eight subjects: five males (21-28 years of age), members of the French sabre fencing team selected for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, and three females (19-26 years of age) practicing fleuret (foil) fencing as a sports activity.
(15) The media might portray Perry as a dumb sabre-rattler, but it takes more than luck to be the nation's longest-serving governor.
(16) Morphological patterns of the retina, cone size and density, rod density, rod-cone ratio, ganglion cell density, convergence of receptor cells, resolving power (RP) and regionalization were examined throughout life history in roach and in adults of asp, bream, common carp, roach and sabre carp.
(17) By winning an imaginary war, the picture reveals sabre-rattling for what it is.
(18) Rincón lists his most significant findings with the contagious enthusiasm of a child reciting the cast of the Ice Age movies: the giant femur of a six-tonne mastodon, a giant ground sloth, a 10-ft pelican, caimans the size of buses and the almost intact skull of a sabre-toothed tiger.
(19) That neglects the regional political dimensions, with arms sales taking place with a lack of regard for that context and without long-term strategic awareness.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest An Al Sabr unmanned aerial vehicle at the Idex arms fair in Abu Dhabi.
(20) Affected skin became atrophic in three cases, "En coup de sabre" lesions were removed surgically in two cases, and there were not recurrences.