(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.
Terrier
Definition:
(n.) An auger or borer.
(n.) One of a breed of small dogs, which includes several distinct subbreeds, some of which, such as the Skye terrier and Yorkshire terrier, have long hair and drooping ears, while others, at the English and the black-and-tan terriers, have short, close, smooth hair and upright ears.
(n.) Formerly, a collection of acknowledgments of the vassals or tenants of a lordship, containing the rents and services they owed to the lord, and the like.
(n.) In modern usage, a book or roll in which the lands of private persons or corporations are described by their site, boundaries, number of acres, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) A test mating between two Manchester Terriers affected by Perthes' disease (PD) resulted in the birth of three affected males and two unaffected females.
(2) Livers of nine related Skye terriers with liver disease were evaluated for histological changes and copper content.
(3) A longitudinal study from peripheral blood, with samples collected every week, was performed between birth and one year of age on young Fox terriers dogs in order to determine the patterns of plasma LH, T, DHA and A concentrations.
(4) Fifteen cases, diagnosed at 10 different university hospitals, were Boston terriers, strongly suggesting that this breed has a familial predisposition for hypospadias.
(5) Pint from £2.90 The Three-Legged Mare Three Legged Mare, York One of three York Brewery pubs (the others are the Last Drop at 27 Colliergate and the Yorkshire Terrier at 10 Stonegate), the Mare is particularly handy, as it's almost on York Minster's doorstep.
(6) Retinal dysplasia has been reported in Bedlington Terrier, Sealyham Terrier, Beagle, Labrador Retriever, English Cocker Spaniel, American Cocker Spaniel, English Springer Spaniel, Yorkshire Terrier and Rottweiler.
(7) As her energetic terriers Benny and Buddy squabble, nipping and harassing half a dozen other spaniels and terriers tearing after tennis balls on the softly sloping hill that marks the Battle of Bannockburn, Gail NcNeill looks up at the greatest hero of Scottish independence and grimaces.
(8) A recurrent lymphangioma in a 5-year-old Airedale Terrier was treated successfully with cobalt-60 radiation.
(9) A 1-year-old male Cairn Terrier was evaluated for chronic coughing that was aggravated by eating or drinking.
(10) In this world, wives are meek-but-cheerful servants (Asda mum doesn't even get a proper chair to sit on during Christmas lunch; she has to perch at the side like a terrier begging for scraps) while their husbands are lazy, oblivious arseholes.
(11) A technique is described for the elevation of depressed fractures of the zygoma using the straight mouth gag of Terrier, which is especially suitable for treatment of partly healed fractures.
(12) Depp and his wife Amber Heard reportedly stayed behind after putting the terriers on a private jet at Brisbane airport.
(13) House dust, house dust mite (D. farinae) and human dander were the allergens which most commonly caused immediate skin reactions and West Highland White Terriers and Boxers were the most affected breeds.
(14) As for Johnny Depp’s dogs, after the international fracas died down, Joyce was awarded the Froggatt award for principled decision making by the Invasive Species Council for “acting quickly and decisively” against actor Depp and his wife, Amber Heard, for allegedly bringing their Yorkshire terriers into Australia in breach of quarantine laws .
(15) A tumour in an 11-year-old male crossbred Fox Terrier, showing the clinical and pathological features of epithelioid sarcoma in man is reported.
(16) These observations illustrate that this inherited, chronic hepatic degeneration in the Bedlington Terrier is progressive.
(17) A 4-year-old Airedale Terrier that had developed estrogen-induced aplastic anemia had a complete recovery after supportive treatment and weekly administrations of nandrolone decanoate.
(18) The kidney of a 7-month-old male Cairn terrier with globoid cell leukodystrophy (GLD) was investigated with light and electron microscopes.
(19) Analyses were undertaken of 20 cases of lens luxation in British-bred Tibetan terriers, together with a further seven from Sweden.
(20) A 6-year-old male Yorkshire Terrier had clinical signs including intermittent vomiting and diarrhea associated with abdominal distention.