(n.) A species of poem of a mournful character, in which a single mourner expresses lamentation; a song for one voice.
Example Sentences:
(1) S. serratum stands clearly apart and the couple S. rugicauda and S. hookeri form an opposite extreme; S. monodi and S. teissieri offer some affinities.
(2) The reaction showed no dependence on magnesium or sodium ions, did not occur with other monodi-, and tri-phosphates as substrates, and was inhibited by p-chlormercuribenzoate (PCMB) and sodium fluoride, but not by ouabain.
(3) The electrophoretic analysis of lactate NAD oxydoreductase in interspecific hybrids between three species of genus Sphaeroma (S. monodi, S. rugicauda and S. hookeri hookeri) leads, for each category of hybrids, to a distribution between the two parental enzymatic patterns and, consequently, shows the absence of an isozyme appropriate to these hybrids.