(n.) A northern duck (Dafila acuta), native of both continents. The adult male has a long, tapering tail. Called also gray duck, piketail, piket-tail, spike-tail, split-tail, springtail, sea pheasant, and gray widgeon.
(n.) The sharp-tailed grouse of the great plains and Rocky Mountains (Pediocaetes phasianellus); -- called also pintailed grouse, pintailed chicken, springtail, and sharptail.
Example Sentences:
(1) The birds trained alone subsequently showed an imprinted preference for the familiar mallard hen over an unfamiliar pintail hen or four stuffed ducklings in simultaneous choice tests at 48 and 72 hr after hatching.
(2) DDT (total DDT, DDE, and DDD) residue levels were decreased with increased weight of pintail (A. acuta), baldpate (Mareca americana), and gadwall (A. strepera) ducklings.
(3) However, later in development (at 72 hr after hatching) the social experience interferes with the birds' maternal preferences, in that socially reared birds do not show a visual preference for the mallard over a pintail model, a preference that isolated birds do show at that age (Experiment II).
(4) There was evidence for a sequential mortality similar to that reported previously at this site: coots were the first birds to die, followed by American wigeon (Anas americana) and northern pintails (A. acuta acuta); northern shovelers (A. clypeata) and mallards (A. platyrhynchos) died late in the epizootic.
(5) Individual ducklings showed a preference for the silent, familiar mallard over an unfamiliar pintail.
(6) Several new species and subspecies of avian Plasmodium have been found in the course of this study, including P. octamerium Manwell, 1968 in a Pintail Whydah, Vidua macoura, from Africa; P paranucleophilum Manwell & Sessler, 1971 in a South American tanager, Tachyphonus sp; and P. nucleophilum toucani Manwell & Sessler 1971 in a Swainson's Toucan, Ramphastos s. swainsonii.
(7) It was found that it is the later social experience with agemates (between 48 and 72 hr) that actively interferes with the preference for the mallard model, because birds that have had only early social experience with agemates (between 24 and 48 hr) prefer the familiar mallard to the pintail model at both 48 and 72 hr (Experiment III).
(8) Blood films from 60 mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) and 67 pintail (A. acuta) ducks, collected in Alberta and the Mackenzie Delta, Northwest Territories, during 1973 and 1974, were examined for blood parasites.
(9) Pintails and lesser scaup gave the poorest results, and pekin duck, black duck, and redhead duck were intermediate.
(10) The Plg gene is deleted in the semidominant deletion mutant, hair-pintail (Thp).
(11) Trypanosoma avium occurred in one individual of each species of duck; one pintail harbored an unidentified microfilaria.
(12) Twenty-two (37%) of the mallards and fourteen (21%) of the pintails were infected with one or more species of hematozoa.
(13) Ducklings trained with broodmates did not show a preference for the familiar mallard hen over the unfamiliar pintail hen and displayed a preference for the stuffed ducklings over the mallard hen at 48 and 72 hr choice tests.
(14) The land that would be submerged hosts about 68,000 birds in winter, including huge flocks of dunlins and shelducks, together with Bewick's swans, curlews, pintails, wigeons and redshanks.
(15) A second DP virus strain, LA-SD (73) from the Lake Andes, South Dakota, epornitic, was detected from cloacal swabs of pintail ducks (Anas acuta), gadwall ducks (Anas strepera), wood ducks (Aix sponsa), and Canada geese infected experimentally one year before.
(16) A strain belonging to H1N3 subtype was isolated from 30 feces samples from mallards but no virus was isolated from 242 samples from pintails.
(17) A total of eight influenza A viruses were isolated from 354 faeces samples of whistling swans; in contrast, no virus was isolated from any sample of 261 black-tailed gulls, of 113 pintails and of 10 mallards.
(18) A single opossum fed infected muscle from a pintail duck (Anas acuta) passed sporocysts in the feces from days 13 through 18 after infection.
(19) When the mallard maternal call was present during testing, group-trained ducklings overwhelmingly responded to it regardless of whether it came from the familiar mallard or an unfamiliar pintail.
(20) The pathogenicity for chickens of 91 strains of avian influenza A virus isolated from such free-living waterfowl as whistling swan, pintail, tufted duck, mallard and black-tailed gull in Japan was tested.
Smee
Definition:
(n.) The pintail duck.
(n.) The widgeon.
(n.) The poachard.
(n.) The smew.
Example Sentences:
(1) The director general of the CML, Paul Smee, said: "January is always a subdued month in the mortgage market but the underlying trend and strong year-on-year growth across all borrower groups indicates a strong start to 2014 continuing the sort of lending levels seen throughout 2013.
(2) The director general of the CML, Paul Smee, said: "As the government's mortgage rescue scheme in the English regions closes to applications at the end of March, we will be sorry to see it go.
(3) "With May lending figures, we get our first glimpse at the effect the mortgage market review (MMR) has had on lending trends and, at least so far, the impact appears subtle, rather than dramatic," said Paul Smee, director general of the CML.
(4) Paul Smee, director general of the CML, said: "For the second month running since new FCA rules took effect, lending characteristics remain similar to the market beforehand.
(5) CML’s director general, Paul Smee, said: “Brexit, and its likely effect on the market, is a question to which the answer will not immediately be forthcoming.
(6) The CML's director general, Paul Smee, said: "If lending follows the same pattern as after previous stamp duty concessions, we will likely see a drop in activity in the next few months.
(7) The Council of Mortgage Lenders' director general, Paul Smee, said it was "anticipated that lending within the scheme will attract relief on the regulatory capital that would otherwise be required on high loan-to-value lending, because of the significant mitigation of the lending risk."
(8) Young people debate the EU and Brexit | Anna Smee Read more Identity matters, especially for unrepresented people like us.
(9) Following Odling-Smee's (1975) procedure, a Pavlovian conditioning paradigm was followed in which conditioned stimuli (CSs: tone, light) predicted an unconditioned stimulus (US:footshock) always, never, or half the time.
(10) Paul Smee, the CML's director general, said: "All types of lending show positive year-on-year growth but the rate of increase is not as frenetic as at the end of 2013.
(11) The CML's director general, Paul Smee, said: "More positive figures in October, after a slow September, suggest the underlying trend in house purchase lending of modest year-on-year growth will continue.
(12) Director general Paul Smee called this "encouraging news", and said first-time buyers were not being displaced by buy-to-let landlords.
(13) Studies by K. Ramabadran, J. J. C. Jacob, Greese et al., of Leysen and Smee and Overstreet, which take into the account the secretion of endogeneous "ligands" enkephalins and endorphins, offer the possibility of a better approach for understanding the role of neuroleptics in the control of pain.
(14) Paul Smee, director general of the CML, said: “Buy-to-let continues its growth this period but, at 18% of new lending in September, remains the fourth largest lending type behind first-time buyers, home movers and remortgages.
(15) Director general, Paul Smee says the clampdown on high loans will mainly affect the capital: "Limiting the level of a lender's lending to no more than 15% of new mortgages at 4.5 times income or above (and none at all for Help to Buy guaranteed loans) is likely to impact the London market more than elsewhere.
(16) Anna Smee, a business strategist at Hundred Consulting, said many shoppers were treating themselves to top-of-the-range food from the supermarket rather than going to restaurants.
(17) Smee said: “The market was a slow starter this year, but this quarter shows it is now firmly on an upward trajectory.
(18) Paul Smee, the director general of the Council of Mortgage Lenders, said: "Although monthly lending is still running at far less than half its typical monthly level during the peak, there is no doubt that the mortgage market is firmly open for business.
(19) "Despite the seasonal dip in lending that we normally see in December, the underlying trend for year-on-year increases in house purchase activity continued in 2012," said the CML's director general, Paul Smee.
(20) Paul Smee, director-general of the CML, said: “Those lenders who used the arrears calculation methodology now identified as problematic did so in good faith, believing that they complied with the rules and were acting in customer interests.