(n.) An extensive tract of level or rolling land, destitute of trees, covered with coarse grass, and usually characterized by a deep, fertile soil. They abound throughout the Mississippi valley, between the Alleghanies and the Rocky mountains.
(n.) A meadow or tract of grass; especially, a so called natural meadow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ewes were fed a 50:50 mixture of alfalfa and prairie hay ad libitum and either no concentrates (C), .4 kg concentrates .
(2) The hypothesis that sex differences in maze learning result from sex differences in activity was tested with wild-caught prairie (Microtus ochrogaster) and meadow (M. pennsylvanicus) voles.
(3) In the prairie dog model, gastric distention with acid (0.1 M hydrochloric acid, pH 1.3) and alkaline (10(-5) sodium hydroxide, pH 8.8) isotonic saline solutions both resulted in significant increases in sphincter of Oddi phasic wave frequency, amplitude, and motility index.
(4) Prairie McLaughlin Elder women, under threat of arrest, have led prayer circles directly on land where construction is planned.
(5) Sphincterotomy is known to prevent gallstone formation in cholesterol-fed prairie dogs.
(6) The seasonal trend was more marked in the Prarie provinces and in Quebec than elsewhere; the maximum rate of anencephalus occurrence was in October to December in the Prairies and in British Columbia, and in January to March in other regions.
(7) Gallstones were induced in 49 prairie dogs by feeding 1.2% CH in a nutritionally adequate semisynthetic diet for 6 wk (period 1).
(8) Prairie hay (.77% N, 73% neutral detergent fiber [NDF] and 7% acid detergent lignin) was fed ad libitum from d 1 through 14 and at 90% of ad libitum intake from d 15 through 21 during digesta collection.
(9) The organization of estrus in this species is unusual in that females never display the cyclic changes associated with estrus; rather, female prairie voles require chemosensory stimuli associated with fertile males in order to be induced into estrus.
(10) The interactive effects of hormones, sexual history and cohabitation on sexual and social behaviors were examined in pairs of ovariectomized female and sexually experienced male prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster).
(11) The prairie dog also has a high concentration of small platelets.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Prairie McLaughlin, who says she was forced to strip in front of male and female guards.
(13) That South Louisiana music has found its way around such impediments is obvious from K-BON, a radio station based in the Prairie town of Eunice.
(14) The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of cohabitation time and sexual experience on the development of pair bond formation in female prairie voles.
(15) R-receptors comprise about 40% of the receptors in the gray squirrel, 10% of the receptors in the prairie dog, and 4-5% of the receptors in the two species of ground squirrel.
(16) That is to say nothing about the future of small-scale British farming if it has to compete head-on with the vast prairies of the US midwest.
(17) After drainage of the bile salt pool, we infused unanesthetized bile fistula prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) intravenously with taurine-conjugated chenodeoxycholate (TCDC), cholate (TC), ursodeoxycholate (TUDC), and ursocholate (TUC) in concentrations that attained greater than 94% enrichment of biliary bile salts.
(18) (Titles from his current album, Losin' Lately Gambler, include Steer Rider's Blues, This Is My Prairie, and Long Gone To Saskatchewan.)
(19) Intracerebroventricular (ICV) injection of oxytocin (300 ng) produced an immediate cessation in sexual behavior in sexually active male prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster).
(20) The ceremony takes place at a black Catholic Church in the Prairie Hamlet of Frilot Cove: the priest imagines Collins arriving in heaven and resolving to 'take this place apart', before the Hail Mary is sung in French, and accordions play a zydeco standard entitled 'I'm Coming Home' as the coffin is laid in the ground.
Steppe
Definition:
(n.) One of the vast plains in Southeastern Europe and in Asia, generally elevated, and free from wood, analogous to many of the prairies in Western North America. See Savanna.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Soyuz capsule carrying Hadfield and two crewmates, the US astronaut Thomas Marshburn and the Russian Roman Romanenko, was expected to touch down on the Kazakhstan steppes at 3.31am BST.
(2) The species is recorded in the forest-steppe zone of the Ukraine.
(3) The forth step is the stratified mucous (steppe turtle) and stratified muco-ciliated epithelium (fetuses of birds, many mammals and man).
(4) The features of specific adaptation to Alpine, steppe and taiga zones are found against a background of expressed continental adaptive type.
(5) The farmer told me he'd had bison here as well, and other creatures of the prairies and steppes.
(6) Flannel flags (100 X 200 mm) were tested for fleas collection directly at the entrances of rodents' holes in the steppe region.
(7) In steppe zone foci cases of echinococcosis in humans are regularly recorded and a large stratum of seropositive subjects was revealed by the indirect hemagglutination and latex agglutination tests.
(8) n., from the steppe zone of the Ukraine is described.
(9) Blood-sucking mosquito fauna, season and circadian activity of predominant species, dynamics of hatching place formation in the villages and on the territories surrounding the Golodnaya and Dzhizakskaya steppes have been studied for many years and the materials have been presented.
(10) This is exemplified from the sheep production (utilization of the desert steppe under the conditions of the subtropical winter rain climate) and from the cattle production (utilization of the savannah under the conditions of the alternate humid tropical zone).
(11) Studies of land irrigation effect on Phlebotomus sandflies, carriers of Leishmania major (a zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis causative agent)--were performed for 15 field work periods, from 1967 to 1981, at 18 sites in various natural areas of the Karshi Steppe (Uzbek SSR).
(12) A T-shaped carrier with twin test objects is an inexpensive efficient visual field screening device which facilitated identification of a nasal steppe, a paracentral scotoma, an enlarged blind spot, an arcuate scotoma, macular sparing, or hemianopic defects.
(13) The autopsy of animals have shown that five species of six species of nematodes and one species of cestodes are common parasites of ruminants of the Ukraine steppe zone and two species are specific parasites of eland.
(14) The size of such immune stratum characterizes the activity of natural foci: the largest immune stratum (25.4%) exists among the population of regions with broad-leaved forests, this stratum is somewhat less (12.2-13.2%) in regions with combined coniferous and broad-leaved forest, in regions with different combinations of broad-leaved forests and steppes, as well as mountain forests.
(15) The use of current laboratory methods demonstrated a wide spread of HFRS virus in the territory of this country, involvement in the epizootic process of most species of forest and steppe murine rodents and insectivora.
(16) The Ascanian multi-foetus and pure-bred Karakul sheep reared in the steppe region of the Ukraine are characterized by five-allelic status of transferrin and by diallelic serum arylesterase and alkaline phosphatase.
(17) Again, that was long before I moved the market.” Steppe said Houser was believed to have taken phone calls.
(18) The results of the long-term investigations of the original Altai-Sayany inhabitants' morphophysiological features in connection with general research of adaptation to Alpine, steppe, taiga and desert ecological niches are represented in the article.
(19) A survey of the same human contingents (children under 14 years and adults) in different zones of Ukraine revealed the opisthorchiasis foci of different intensity in the northeastern part of Polesye and in the forest-steppe zone.
(20) Hydrologic characteristic of Dnepropetrovsk, which is situated in drought steppe zone, is presented.