(n.) Any carnivorous animal of the genus Lutra, and related genera. Several species are described. They have large, flattish heads, short ears, and webbed toes. They are aquatic, and feed on fish. Their fur is soft and valuable. The common otter of Europe is Lutra vulgaris; the American otter is L. Canadensis; other species inhabit South America and Asia.
(n.) The larva of the ghost moth. It is very injurious to hop vines.
(n.) A corruption of Annotto.
Example Sentences:
(1) The value of faecal analysis in assessing metal burdens during surveys of otters is discussed.
(2) Otters and sea eagles, which have made successful returns to waterways in recent years, would suffer as fish stocks dropped, for example.
(3) Leishmaniasis exist in two forms: One like bottom of orient with only skin alteration called leishmaniasis andina (uta for the indians), its propagated in the coast and the andean valleys at 200 m. (amount 1,200 to 3,000); the otter form affects the mycosis, called leishmaniasis americana (espundia for the indians), its it propagates general in the virgin forest.
(4) In the first year (1984) of a reintroduction study, 10 American river otters (Lutra canadensis) from Louisiana were transported to Oklahoma, held for 5 days for clinical evaluation, surgical implantation with intra-abdominal radiotelemetry devices, and then released in Oklahoma.
(5) The other otters have not changed their behavior following Logan’s death, the zoo said.
(6) Clinical and pathological observations of a naturally occurring disease in a British wild otter (Lutra lutra) are reported.
(7) Studies have been made on the peroxidase activity of metmyoglobins in animals from various ecological groups--the horse Equus caballus, cattle Bos taurus, beaver Castor fiber, otter Lutra lutra, mink Mustela vison and dog Canis familiaris.
(8) crescens) was demonstrated as the causative agent in 5 cases of disease-in the badger (Meles meles), the otter (Lutra lutra) and the fox (Vulpes vulpes).
(9) An “unauthorized” pair of pants in an otter enclosure at the Calgary zoo has brought disciplinary action onto two employees, who were blamed for the death of a 12-year-old otter called Logan.
(10) In England, beavers are back on the river Otter , and otters on the river Trent.
(11) Photograph: PR We followed her advice, walking down to the stream in search of terrapins and otters, or through clusters of cork oak trees, their branches hairy with lichen like the ancient trees of a fairytale forest.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Come spring otters will hunt the vulnerable baby beaver kits.
(13) While we sat on the shore eating our lunch we watched the otter tucking into a butterfish with the same enthusiasm – and completely oblivious to our presence.
(14) In conclusion, before a causal link can be drawn between the status of mink and otter populations and exposure to organochlorine chemicals from the Great Lakes, a large amount of research and data analysis needs to be undertaken.
(15) The classic tale Tarka the Otter was written 90 years ago and my daughter and I thought we’d experience for ourselves some of the places author Henry Williamson brought so vividly to life.
(16) They are incredibly industrious animals and their hard work has benefits for people and wildlife.” There have been sightings of beavers on the Otter for the last decade.
(17) And in November an otter managed a "perilous" three-mile swim to the Farne Islands off the coast of Northumberland for the first time on record.
(18) Keep your eyes peeled for Spawning salmon or sea trout, kingfishers or dippers, or even an otter or a seal in the river.
(19) Clinical evaluation indicated that respiratory tract disease, bacterial and parasitic infections, and inanition may have contributed to the death of these otters.
(20) The origin of major functional shifts from changes in a small fraction of the genome is illustrated by polar bears, sea otters, warblers, vultures, and especially by humans.
Physique
Definition:
(n.) The natural constitution, or physical structure, of a person.
Example Sentences:
(1) Factor analysis by the Jöreskog method was applied to data obtained from measurements of 19 skeletal measurements of human physique, carried out in 1971 on 166 men and 122 women students of the Warsaw Technical University.
(2) Measuring items of the physique were the height, the weight, the chest circumference, the sitting height, and the foot area.
(3) Maternal factors and perinatal outcome of low birth-weight (less than or equal to 2,500 g) infants of 46 adolescent mothers was studied and compared with 160 adolescents who delivered infants weighing greater than 2,500 g. The significant factors found in the low birth-weight group were anaemia, small maternal physique and preterm delivery.
(4) Using the cluster analysis of objects in the space of physique factors the objective classification of peripubertal stage of ontogenesis in girls has been constructed.
(5) In the whole, the results indicate the existence of marked genetic determination of physique's growth and development in a stage under study of human ontogenesis.
(6) In this context, mesomorphy appears to provide the optimum description of physique variation.
(7) An examination of 16 of the 28 children to determine the relationship between their physique, personality, and blood pressure was made.
(8) The well established effect of physique remains, but there is no effect of socio-economic status as assessed by the Registrar-General's classification of the father's occupation.
(9) The volleyball players were the more linear in physique and the better jumpers.
(10) The exact relation between social variables and physique, as part of this triangle, did not yield gracefully to delineation.
(11) The subjects' physiques were assessed using the Health-Carter anthropometric somatotype method.
(12) After Second World War army service, his physique, graceful carriage and radiant grin took him from lift attendant to Broadway and instant movie stardom in The Killers (1946).
(13) Racial variation in physique and body composition are of interest to sport scientists because these characteristics may be related to athletic performance, fitness, strength and injury.
(14) Thus, the perception of somatotype and discrepancy between perceived and preferred physique could significantly differentiate the character traits attributed to body build among male and female children.
(15) As it was supposed that some improvement of the nutrition and physique since the end of the war should make the heart weight heavier, the value on 1,399 cases of medicolegal autopsy was measured and analyzed.
(16) Even his physique answered to 19th century notions of muscular Christianity and a masculine ideal premised on imperial service.
(17) A predictive research design was employed as 56 runners ran each of the three distances and were evaluated for VO2max, running mechanics, physique variables, ventilatory threshold, and anaerobic capacity and power.
(18) In Venezuela, for example, mannequins’ shape have changed in response to the exaggerated ideals of beauty promoted in a country where a plastic surgery-honed physique is the ideal.
(19) If they want to learn how people's health, physiques and attitudes change over time, they have to come here.
(20) In Sussex C ounty, England a computerized school health service records the health a nd physique of school children.