(n.) Any species of Trichechus, a genus of sirenians; -- called alsosea cow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Signs include "Moderates do it both ways" and "Rally to restore manatee".
(2) The West Indian manatee, Trichechus manatus, has amedullary, pachyostotic long bones.
(3) The contribution of VFAs to the manatees' total energy requirements could not be calculated, but it is probably considerable.
(4) In manatees the changes in alveolar O2 and CO2 pressure (PAO2 and PACO2) in relation to dive time are slower and more variable than in other marine mammals.
(5) The major whey proteins of the milks of the dolphin, manatee, and beagle were purified by gel filtration and ion exchange chromatography and characterized and identified by molecular weight determination, amino acid analysis, N-terminal sequencing, and activity measurements.
(6) Comparisons in the parasite fauna are made among Florida manatees and other sirenian populations, and a brief review of sirenian parasites is included.
(7) Airway dimensions, extent of cartilage reinforcements and lung mechanical properties were examined in excised lungs of the West Indian Manatee (Trichechus manatus).
(8) Although manatees have a small relative brain size, volume estimates of the major brain regions indicate that the telencephalon comprises 71% of total brain volume and is 90% cerebral cortex.
(9) Manatees are capable of dives exceeding 10 min duration without having to resport to anaerobic metabolism, and even after 10 min dives recover within 3-4 short dives.
(10) The VFA concentrations in the manatee are similar to those in the dugong, Dugong dugon, and the green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas.
(11) The architecture of frontal regions of cerebral cortex was investigated in several brains of the Florida manatee, Trichechus manatus latirostris.
(12) Guests paddle through the South Water Caye Marine Reserve, exploring mangrove channels and reefs, watching out for stingrays, manatees and pelicans.
(13) I don’t feel as threatened as a lot of other people, and the reason for that is that we didn’t see it with Dengue, and we didn’t see it with Chikungunya,” said Mark Latham, director of the Manatee County mosquito control program in Florida , about two more viruses spread by the same mosquito as Zika.
(14) Twenty minutes north is Tatuamunha river, a sanctuary for manatees.
(15) Unrestrained Amazonian manatees (Trichechus inunguis) maintained a constant heart rate during diving and exhibited a slight tachycardia during breathing.
(16) Fifty-two mammographic facilities were surveyed comprising 64 units in Pinellas, Hillsborough, Pasco and Manatee Counties.
(17) The proteolytic specificities of chymopapain and papaya proteinase omega were investigated by using the alpha-chains of manatee and mole haemoglobin, whose primary structures are known, as substrates.
(18) Three cases of congenital ectrodactyly of the flipper in the manatee are described, including one case of bilaterally-symmetrical cleft hand.
(19) Aside from the dolphins, government scientists, closely shadowed by experts working for BP, are studying the effects on creatures as tiny as zooplankton and as massive as manatees.
(20) Slow wave sleep occupied 27%, and paradoxical sleep 1% of the total recording time in the Amazonian manatee.
Mermaid
Definition:
(n.) A fabled marine creature, typically represented as having the upper part like that of a woman, and the lower like a fish; a sea nymph, sea woman, or woman fish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite this exemption, things still managed to go tits-up early last year, when the social network deleted an image of Copenhagen’s Little Mermaid statue .
(2) So let's dry our guilt-induced " mermaid tears " – as these polluting plastic particles are poetically known – and face this issue.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘The Parakeet and the Mermaid’ at Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs exhibition, Tate Modern.
(4) Ditto the Little Mermaid’s Ariel, whose desire not just to change her circumstances but change her physical form has made her an unlikely object of identification among some younger members of the transgender community – a girl who believes herself literally born in the wrong body.
(5) The levels of two- and three-ring aromatics ranged from very low for the site outside Mermaid Sound and for one site within the Sound, to low for the four other sites within the Sound.
(6) The human and fishman MTs displayed a stoichiometry of 12 g atoms of Cu(I) per mol, while rainbow trout and mermaid MTs bound only 10.
(7) It is a figurehead maybe, although one that is less svelte mermaid than bullying bouncer.
(8) Sirenomelia, or the mermaid syndrome, is the most extreme example of the caudal regression syndrome.
(9) In the 80s, Cher's acting career was big news: she carved a niche as a tough mother with a heart in Face and Mermaids, and won an Oscar in 1988 for the quick-witted Moonstruck, in which she played a no-nonsense New Yorker falling in love over opera.
(10) Samples from sites within Mermaid Sound closest to the town and port of Dampier showed noticeably higher levels than those from outside; the present study does not allow the source of the PAHs to be determined.
(11) As the perceptive sports writer Jerry Izenberg once said: “If they trawl the Ohio river for a thousand years, they are more likely to find a mermaid than an Olympic gold medal.” It is a rebuttal that Ali himself would have found heartbreakingly funny – and true.
(12) And that, increasingly, people aren’t prepared to go to all the trouble of going out to eat at their favourite restaurant – not when they can have the same food while sprawling on the sofa in a novelty mermaid blanket watching Homeland .
(13) A family of synthetic genes was constructed encoding a rainbow trout metallothionein (MT), a human MT, and two chimeric molecules which contained respectively (i) the N-terminal (or head) domain of human MT followed by the C-terminal (or tail) domain of a fish MT (termed mermaid MT) and (ii) the head domain of fish MT fused with the tail domain of human MT (denoted fishman MT).
(14) I just shot the Mermaid Parade in New York and it killed me,” he says.
(15) But," he Hanks-ishly adds, "shop can be good, too …" After college, he was cast in the TV show Bosom Buddies and caught the eye of Ron Howard, who cast him in his breakthrough role in Splash, a ridiculous but, thanks to Hanks, charming modern-day update on The Little Mermaid.
(16) Medical intervention is very important, especially for teenagers who are already in puberty,” says Susie Green, chair of Mermaids and mother of a trans daughter.
(17) A five-year-old with a fascination for butterflies and caterpillars and mermaids who began talking about suicide … Our child lives as a girl now and her school describes her as "calm, mature, bright-eyed and intelligent".
(18) The English singer has since recorded many of these with US band Wilco as The Mermaid Avenue Sessions .
(19) The Mermaids website is quite negative,” she says.
(20) Coral-rock oysters were collected in September 1982 from six locations in the area of Mermaid Sound in North-Western Australia.