(n.) Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder.
(n.) That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim.
(n.) The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.
(n.) To take booty; to gather spoil; to ravage; to take food by violence.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unlike most birds of prey, which are territorial and fight each other over nesting and hunting grounds, the hen harrier nests close to other harriers.
(2) The concentration of prey and the ciliate mean cell volume, dry weight, and number per milliliter were determined at known growth rates.
(3) This unusual pattern of unbalanced growth may represent an adaptation by bdellovibrios to maximize their progeny yield from the determinate amount of substrate available within a given prey cell.
(4) We have four Money Shops in Medway: they know they can prey on the vulnerable, and most residents can't pay back on time.
(5) Plethodontid salamanders capture prey by projecting the tongue from the mouth.
(6) About 2 weeks after metamorphosis, midwife toads Alytes obstetricans judge the size of a prey object mainly in scales of visual angle.
(7) As the outer wall was dissolved, outgrowth began with the elongation of the germinant as it emerged from the prey ghost as an actively motile cell.
(8) In the present study the chemical composition of the venom was examined in order to determine the presence of constituents that may have physiologically important actions on the prey.
(9) The fate of those black boys and men rested in the hands of a racist system that preys on the fear and vulnerability of their parents.
(10) Paradoxical sleep is associated with a factor related to predatory danger, which suggests that large amounts of this sleep phase are disadvantageous in prey species.
(11) The latency increase is not likely to be due to motor fatigue, since it can be partially reversed by dishabituation with an alternate prey species.
(12) Two cases are considered: mutualism with the prey and mutualism with the first predator.
(13) At the same time, cetaceans are under threat from a variety of pressures including direct and indirect takes, pollution, and competition for habitat and prey.
(14) A wide range of suggested functions found in the literature include food acquisition, prey attack, aggression and attack behavior, facial expression in intraspecies communications, dispersion of pheromones, maintaining head position in swimming, and a wide range of environmental monitoring (e.g., current detection in water, wind direction on land).
(15) We suggest that the first step of the prey-catching sequence is to adjust the accommodative state of the lenses and thus lock the visual apparatus on to a stimulus.
(16) They prey on the population, kidnapping and extorting in cahoots with criminal gangs, according to multiple complaints filed to the human rights commission.
(17) For much of the film, Deckard refuses to identify himself with his prey; after all, that might make him no better than an organic machine.
(18) Phage typing was performed on 795 strains of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from poultry, a turkey, pigeons, and birds of prey in Japan and 4 countries in Europe, using the avian phage set of typing phages plus 6 others.
(19) Functional morphologists commonly study feeding behavior in vertebrates by recording electrical activity from head muscles during unrestrained prey capture.
(20) The strong reactivity of the two positive yellow baboon sera with SIVagm proteins raises questions about whether these animals may have been infected by green monkeys in their native habitat; baboons occasionally prey upon and eat green monkeys.
Preyer
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, preys; a plunderer; a waster; a devourer.
Example Sentences:
(1) The animals' Preyer reflex thresholds were determined at intervals during the study.
(2) On hundred forty six male Harley guinea pigs, weighing about 350 grs, all susceptible to preyer's reflex, were used in this study.
(3) Our purpose is to find the minimum auditory level for the Preyer reflex in normally-hearing guinea pigs, examining a range of frequencies between 125 and 8,000 Hz.
(4) Preyer's reflex threshold at 8 kHz began to increase after the 5th day of kanamycin treatment and disappeared on the 11th day.
(5) The Preyer reflex turns up in a reliable and constant way in those frequencies between 500 and 6,000 Hz.
(6) The effects of single and repeated combinations of gentamicin and sound on Preyer reflex and cochlear hair cells in pigmented guinea pigs have been examined.
(7) Fourteen guinea pigs with normal Preyer reflex were anesthetized and tracheotomy was performed.
(8) Cyclophosphamide treatment resulted in disturbed Preyer and corneal reflexes and enhanced the incidence of antigen appearance and histopathological changes.
(9) Auditory dysfunction that showed the difference between the right and left ears was confirmed by auditory brain stem response and Preyer's reflex in the animals with spontaneous nystagmus.
(10) Normal control rats (N:45) and 27 genetically hyperbilirubinemic rats from an NIH colony were tested for the Preyer reflex (Pr) threshold using pure tones.
(11) It is very interesting to note that moderate endolymphatic hydrops was found in animals one year after Preyer's reflex had disappeared.
(12) Acoustic function was also evaluated by measuring Preyer's pinna reflex.
(13) Normal Preyer reflex thresholds do not necessarily mean normal hearing, but increased thresholds do indicate hearing impairment.
(14) Twenty-four Preyer's reflex normal guinea pigs were exposed to the octave bands of noise at 63 Hz and 4 kHz, 110 dB A (SPL).
(15) Loss of Preyer reflex and suppression of the N1 amplitude occurred in cisplatin-treated animals and was described as dose-related.
(16) While the Preyer reflex is thus not necessarily a good predictor of the conditioned-response audiogram, it may come to be a useful index of loudness sensitivity.
(17) Before and after each implantation, special tests (Preyer-reflex, otoscopy, impedance audiometry) were performed for preliminary selection of the animals and to discover postoperative induced disturbances of sound conduction in the middle ear.
(18) Amikacin causes the most pronounced physiological damage observed by the early loss of Preyer reflex and general toxic signs--these observations correspond with the morphological findings.
(19) An unconditioned stop reaction on tones was used in 9- to 11-day-old mice, then an unconditioned pinna reflex that can be elicited at low intensities and is not equal to the Preyer reflex.
(20) Animals treated in such a way showed marked signs of impaired inner ear function, including loss of postural control and loss of Preyer's reflex.