(n.) The American great marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa). Applied also to the red-breasted godwit (Limosa haematica).
Example Sentences:
(1) Other brands in the group include Remington Arms, the country's largest and oldest maker of rifles; Marlin Firearms, a manufacturer of lever-action rifles; and Advanced Armament, a maker of pistol silencers.
(2) Top young arms such as the New York Mets’ Matt Harvey and Miami Marlins’ José Fernández have gone under the knife.
(3) UKAR still owes taxpayers £42.1bn, which it is repaying as customers pay back their mortgages, although it raised a further £400m by selling its unsecured personal loans to OneSavings Bank and Marlin Financial last month.
(4) Fifty-seven samples of juvenile black marlin fish were analyzed for inorganic and methyl mercury, and total mercury was calculated by addition of the 2 values.
(5) A cladistic analysis of blue marlin cytochrome b variants indicates two major divergent evolutionary lines within the species.
(6) First off, Tulo leads the NL in an array of statistics – batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, runs scored, offensive WAR, trailing the Miami Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton by two home runs with 18.
(7) Marlin red and white muscle buffer capacity was two times higher than trout with white muscle, buffering being two times greater than red in both species.
(8) The HRC contribution to total cellular buffering varied from a high of 62% for marlin white to a low of 7% for trout red.
(9) The blood of the striped marlin (Tetrapturus audax) contains one major Root-effect haemoglobin.
(10) Even if he is lights out as he was as a Marlin while pitching against the Giants (3-1, 1.98 ERA, two shutouts), who cares if you can't hit?
(11) As the Republican congressman Marlin Stutzman pointed out in a particularly candid moment 18 months ago, when Republican obduracy caused a government shutdown, “We have to get something out of this.
(12) Just because an opportunity exists doesn’t mean that we’re going to close on that deal, because we want to be sure that any new team has the opportunity to be successful.” Putting the squeeze on the Orange Bowl site In July, a possibility sprang at the old Orange Bowl site adjacent to Marlins Park , a setting Beckham had originally rejected.
(13) Blood from capture-stressed striped marlin cannot be fully saturated with oxygen in the presence of lactic acid because of a substantial Root effect.
(14) The Miami Marlins considered and rejected the site during its own search for a new baseball stadium several years ago, according to the Miami Herald, in part because of the cost of transporting large rocks from elsewhere as landfill.
(15) Less than a decade ago, the city and county granted a hugely controversial public investment of $490m to fund the Miami Marlins baseball park.
(16) The ligand binding properties of the Root effect haemoglobin of the marlin have been investigated in the temperature range 12-35 degrees C. An essentially symmetric displacement of the binding isotherms to higher concentration is observed on raising the temperature.
(17) Alschuler told The Guardian on Tuesday that he welcomed the mayor’s letter as an “expansion of alternatives” for the location of the stadium, which also included the less favoured inland sites at Florida International University and next to Marlins Park in Little Havana.
(18) Suggestions included a giant squid, whose eyes can be as large as soccer balls, a bigeye thresher shark, which can reach can reach 16ft, a marlin or a particularly large sailfish.
(19) Their failure to win with those players acquired in the post 2012 blockbuster deal that brought Jose Reyes, Mark Buehrle, Josh Johnson and Emilio Bonifacio to Ontario from Miami, makes it seem like the Marlins actually knew what they were doing when they broke up their core after one losing season.
(20) What’s also worth considering is the as-yet-unnamed MLS team (which may initially share Marlins Park when it joins MLS as planned in 2016) isn’t the only sporting enterprise in the city seeking permission for home improvements.
Spearfish
Definition:
(n.) A large and powerful fish (Tetrapturus albidus) related to the swordfish, but having scales and ventral fins. It is found on the American coast and the Mediterranean.
(n.) The carp sucker.
Example Sentences:
(1) Marlins, sailfish, and spearfishes have a heat-producing tissue beneath the brain and adjacent to the eyes.
(2) The 48.5C rise in under 48 hours is one of the greatest ever recorded and is comparable to the world's fastest-temperature rise: 27C in just two minutes in Spearfish, South Dakota back in 1943.
(3) At the G20 conference diplomats were spearfished by an email with a link to nude photos of former French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, and many clicked - downloading spyware onto their computers.
(4) Istiophorid billfishes (blue marlin, striped marlin and Mediterranean spearfish), xiphiid billfishes (Pacific and Mediterranean stocks) and a scombrid fish (butterfly mackerel) were included in the analysis.