(a.) Floating in water, as the leaves of water lilies, or submersed, as those of many aquatic plants.
(a.) Placed horizontally across the field, as if swimmimg toward the dexter side; said of all sorts of fishes except the flying fish.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results clearly indicate that the bone marrow obtained from mice stimulated with either exudate cells or with super-natant or plasma obtained from cup-implanted mice contained a significantly greater number of CFU-S and CFU-C than did any one of the four control groups.
(2) In 1967, homografts had been in place five years and the early nonviable and natant freeze-dried valves were showing irrefutable signs of degeneration and calcification.
Nutant
Definition:
(a.) Nodding; having the top bent downward.
Example Sentences:
(1) Continuous administration of the antioxidant nordihydroguairetic acid to clones of the natural-death nutant or wild-type Neurospora crassa growing on 5-fluorotryptophan not only alleviates the time-dependent deterioration of growth rate (senescence), but also inhibits the accumulation of a fluorescent pigment (lipofuscin), an end-product of lipid peroxidation.
(2) Finally, a marmoset herpesvirus nutant resistant to bromodeoxyuridine, equine herpesvirus type 1, and Herpesvirus aotus induces neither TdR nor CdR phosphorylating enzymes during productive infections.
(3) There is some evidence that this low level of catalytic activity is due to the presence of a nutant form of the enzyme rather than to very low levels of the normal enzyme.