(n.) A large stork of the genus Leptoptilos (formerly Ciconia), esp. the African species (L. crumenifer), which furnishes plumes worn as ornaments. The Asiatic species (L. dubius, or L. argala) is the adjutant. See Adjutant.
(n.) One having five eighths negro blood; the offspring of a mulatto and a griffe.
Example Sentences:
(1) In experiments, adult marabou storks were fed with hydatid fluid of viable Echinococcus cysts obtained from sheep and goats.
(2) It is named after the Marabou chocolate factory, which opened in 1916, partly inspired by the Cadbury factory in Bourneville, Birmingham.
(3) The feeding trials have shown that the marabou does not play a role in the spread of echinococcosis from the abattoir.
(4) In contrast to this, the uropygial gland secretion of the marabou is a triglyceride mixture.
Mulatto
Definition:
(n.) The offspring of a negress by a white man, or of a white woman by a negro, -- usually of a brownish yellow complexion.
Example Sentences:
(1) In order to test the utility of discrete cranial traits for estimating genetic distances among populations, estimates of admixture are obtained for gene frequency data and nonmetric cranial data in São Paulo mulattos (M).
(2) It is known from historical records that the population of Cartagena (Colombia) is a mixture of caucasoids (Spaniards) and negroids (Africans) that is named mulattos.
(3) It was alleged that Martin Van Buren dressed up in women’s clothes, that Abraham Lincoln fathered mulatto children – this is part and parcel of American politics.” But it would be hard not to conclude that “dirty trickster” is a fair label to pin on a man who firmed up his reputation for hardball tactics working on Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaigns, had a hand in the prostitute-laden downfall of the former New York governor Eliot Spitzer and consulted for a number of controversial foreign clients, including the president of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos.
(4) Seventy percent of patients with solitary lymphoma and 80% with immunoproliferative small intestinal disease were mulatto.
(5) But according to Karl Evanzz, author of The Messenger: The Rise And Fall Of Elijah Muhammad, his real name was Wali Dodd Fard, “a mulatto who immigrated to the United States from New Zealand in the early 1900s”.
(6) For both sexes, blacks and mulattos are at higher risk than whites for cancer of the esophagus, stomach, and liver and for myeloma; for prostate cancer in males; and for gall bladder, pancreas, and cervix uteri cancers in females.
(7) Other times, the discovery of a “MU” (Mulatto) or “B” (Black) on a grandparent’s or great grandparent’s census record had uncovered the truth.
(8) Thus, in addition to reporting the finding of a null phenotype of placental alkaline phosphatase in a dark mulatto newborn from a black mixed population of Bahia, Brazil, here we present other evidence for the presence of the ALPP*Q0 allele with considerably high frequency in this population.
(9) A 6 month-old mulatto boy was admitted on account of acute gastroenteritis, malnutrition and dehydration.
(10) Content of cholesterol and total triglycerides was studied in blood plasma of 397 healthy volunteers, 299 of which belonged to white race and 99 persons--to negroid race (mulatto and negroes).
(11) It’s the state that passed “one of the harshest laws” regarding slavery for “teaching reading and writing to any Negro or mulatto” in 1847.
(12) Median ages for black and mulatto slaves suggest that the population was young.
(13) The frequency, morphology, symmetry and asymmetry of the retro-articular process of the human temporal bone are studied in 811 adult skulls, being 386 from whites (301 men and 85 women), 245 from Negroes (137 men and 108 women), 138 from mulattoes (94 men and 44 women) and 42 from Japanese (31 men and 11 women).
(14) The analysis of the allele and haplotype frequencies obtained, together with the genetic distances calculated with other populations, showed that most of the HLA genes of mulattos are from negroids and caucasoids.
(15) The MTL involved only young adult Mulatto and African patients in whom malabsorption and abdominal pain were the major clinical features.
(16) Results showed: (1) Higher prevalence of S. mansoni infection, greater egg load elimination and higher and earlier morbidity of the chronic forms of the disease in the southeast areas of Capitão Andrade and Padre Paraiso; (2) The incidence of hepatosplenic form is higher in some family clusters, in whites and mulattos in all the endemic areas but develop earlier in the southeast; (3) The prevalence and morbidity of schistosomiasis are decreasing both in the mass treated northeast and in the untreated southeast areas; (4) The mass treatment reduces rapidly the prevalence of the infection and the morbidity of the disease but can not control it because of the frequent reinfections due to the intensity of man-water contact.
(17) Subjective assessment of Black ancestries carried out in a five point visual scale (White, Light Mulatto, Medium Mulatto, Dark Mulatto and Black) allowed to show that the ALAD*2 allele frequency decreases from 8% in Whites to 0% in Blacks.
(18) Gene frequencies of several red cell and serum gentic markers were determined in the three main racial groups--whites, mulattoes and Negroes--of the Cuban population.
(19) In addition to the well-known preponderance of thyroid carcinoma in women, a majority of lesions occurred in white patients in this series despite a higher hospital admission rate for coloreds (mulattos).
(20) He was a mulatto, of Huguenot Calvinist and Bantu African slave descent.