(n.) Any one of three species of South American ostriches of the genera Rhea and Pterocnemia. See Rhea.
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Ostrich
Definition:
(n.) A large bird of the genus Struthio, of which Struthio camelus of Africa is the best known species. It has long and very strong legs, adapted for rapid running; only two toes; a long neck, nearly bare of feathers; and short wings incapable of flight. The adult male is about eight feet high.
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(1) Occasionally, I have been invited to try exotic meats, ostrich say, or kangaroo or alligator.
(2) A neurophysin has been isolated from ostrich neurohypophyses and shown by partial amino acid sequence determination to be related to mammalian VLDV-neurophysin.
(3) The Texan first-term senator also revealed that he had swapped his usual ostrich-skin "argument boots" for a pair of black tennis shoes after taking advice from Rand Paul, who staged a shorter filibuster last year against US drone strikes.
(4) But if it wasn't the first Lou Reed record, Do the Ostrich was certainly the most remarkable at the time.
(5) Cowhide and goatskin are used to make Mulberry goods, as well as ostrich leather and alligator skins.
(6) As part of this study the N-terminal amino acid sequences of bull frog, sea turtle, turkey, and ostrich alpha-subunits were determined and reported for the first time.
(7) The microclimate of the nest and the rates of egg water loss were studied at weekly intervals throughout the 41-day incubation period in six ostrich nests.
(8) Glucose, triglyceride, gamma-glutamyltransferase, and cholinesterase concentrations in ostriches were not linearly associated with age.
(9) But between the ostriches who want to retain the status quo and those radicals who want to lead an exodus is an interesting, and fertile, ground.
(10) He ended his life as unknowable and contrary as the 22-year-old who made Do the Ostrich.
(11) Binding and spectroscopic properties of ostrich neurophysins were examined with emphasis on the behavior of Tyr-35, a residue that provides a potential probe of the monomer-monomer interface and of allosteric interrelationships between this region and the binding site.
(12) Young ostriches had significantly lower concentrations of hematocrit, hemoglobin concentration, calcium, and magnesium, and higher levels of total protein and potassium, than the adult individuals.
(13) The complete amino acid sequence of chicken ACTH (39 residues) has been determined as NH2-Ser-Tyr-Ser-Met-Glu-His-Phe-Arg-Trp-Gly-Lys-Pro-Val-Gly-Arg-Lys-Arg- Arg- Pro-Ile-Lys-Val-Tyr-Pro-Asn-Gly-Val-Asp-Glu-Glu-Ser-Ala-Glu-Ser-Tyr-Pro- Met-Glu-Phe-OH Strikingly the amino acid sequence of chicken ACTH shows a closer resemblance to that from an amphibian, Xenopus (3 residue substitution) than that from another bird, the ostrich (7 residue substitution) or the turkey (at least 9 residue substitution).
(14) The different homogeneous ostrich neurophysin fractions so obtained were compared i.t.o.
(15) It is likely that these two forms of GnRH are present in all bird species, since the chicken and the ostrich have evolved separately.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dress of dyed ostrich feathers and hand-painted microscopic slides.
(17) The extent of reassociation of 3H-labeled repetitive or single copy DNA sequences from the chicken with excess unlabeled DNA from the duck, the Japanese quail, and the ostrich, respectively, was measured by hydroxylapatite chromatography.
(18) This study also demonstrates that the ostrich copeptin is more closely related to the amphibian copeptin sequence than to its mammalian homologue, leading to the hypothesis that two families of copeptin molecules might exist.
(19) Rex Hunt, fully dressed in his governor's tights and ostrich plumes, was widely seen, not least by toffs in the Foreign Office (FCO), as a slightly Wodehousian figure, the kind more likely to be seen in slacks propping up the golf club bar in a colonial outpost.
(20) The effect of calcium ions and enzyme concentration on the rate of self-digestion of ostrich trypsin was also investigated.