(n.) An arctic sea bird Fratercula arctica) allied to the auks, and having a short, thick, swollen beak, whence the name; -- called also bottle nose, cockandy, coulterneb, marrot, mormon, pope, and sea parrot.
(n.) The puffball.
(n.) A sort of apple.
Example Sentences:
(1) Inspired by chaos, Floyd would address the crew as often as the camera, would get palpably squiffy as programmes wore on, would indulge in any manner of derring-do (from playing rugby with Welshmen to shooting seals and eating puffins) and would be lovably madcap.
(2) For most assays the values were highest for the puffin.
(3) • Doubles from £117 room-only, Thorsgata 1, Odinstorg Square, +354 511 6200, hotelodinsve.is Icelandair Hotel Reykjavik Marina Facebook Twitter Pinterest It may not be in the heart of downtown but the Reykjavik Marina has a great location by the harbour, close to where the whale- and puffin-watching tour boats depart from.
(4) In July, puffin numbers on the Farne Islands were down 35% in five years.
(5) The first detailed puffin count on the Farnes was in 1969, when the islands had 6,800 pairs.
(6) In May, the National Trust embarked on a census to discover whether puffin numbers had plummeted after a year of extreme weather, and the UK barn owl population was reported to have suffered its worst breeding season for more than 30 years after a run of extreme weather events.
(7) The prevalence of Soldado (SOL) virus and SOL virus antibodies was investigated on immature sea birds and the argasid tick Ornithodoros (Alectorobius) maritimus collected on Puffin Island, North Wales.
(8) He picked out native endangered and beloved species such as the heath fritillary butterfly on Exmoor, the netted carpet moth in Cumbria and puffins on the Farne islands as having done well.
(9) If Kaye Webb, the Puffin editor, was publishing a book, it was good to go, and best get it into your school bag sharpish.
(10) Even so, 37 birds once common in the UK, such as lapwing, puffin and curlew are now close to dying out because of habitat loss, climate change and increasingly intensive farming.
(11) Over-fishing may be playing a part, or the gradual effect of climate change in warming the sea and affecting the small fish and plankton which the puffins eat over the winter."
(12) Biologists have reported plummeting sea bird populations, with falls of a third in numbers of puffins on the Farne islands off the Northumberland coast, and the Isle of May at the Firth of Forth, as well as declines in food sources for mammals and birds, such as sand eels.
(13) There are more than 300 films on its site, which also has cameras on pandas, bison and puffins.
(14) Hallgrímsson grew up in the remote Westman Islands, an archipelago off the southern coast of Iceland that is home to 8 million puffins, 80 volcanoes, and 4,135 people.
(15) MFO activity was measured for adult Leach's storm-petrels (Oceanodroma leucorhoa), guillemot (Uria aalge) and Atlantic puffins (Fratercula arctica).
(16) Questioned about which one UK species they would like to save from extinction, 52% said hedgehogs, ahead of other at-risk species such as the sparrow, puffin, mistle thrush and hairy-footed flower bee .
(17) A carbon furnace atomic absorption procedure is described for the determination of cadmium in the livers and kidneys of puffins, fratercula arctica.
(18) Generally, different contaminants had not co-accumulated in tissues; this was so even for the lipophilic compounds (DDE and PCBs), with the exception of puffin fat.
(19) Melissa Moore, the Marine Conservation Society ’s head of policy, said: “We’re recommending that the final tranche in 2017 includes South Celtic Deep – a site that supports short-beaked common dolphin; Norris to Ryde, which is rich in seagrass meadows; Mud Hole off the north west coast - 35 metres deep and home to rare sea pens - and Compass Rose off the Yorkshire coast, which is an important spawning and nursery ground for herring and lemon sole.” The government is also set to consult on new special areas of conservation for harbour porpoise and special protection areas to protect feeding and bathing areas used by birds, such as spoonbills in Poole Harbour and puffins on the Northumberland coast.
(20) Liver DDE levels in experimental ducks and guillemots were comparable to those reported for seabirds found dead after kills; levels in starved experimental puffins were much higher.
Ruffin
Definition:
(a.) Disordered.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Monday this week a second witness came forward and supported key aspects of Ruffin’s version of events, including that police had ignored Dhu’s pleas for help over several days.
(2) Ruffin gave evidence via video link from Roebourne prison, where Dhu would have been sent had her warrant required longer in custody.
(3) Ruffin Smith said so far no refugees have arrived: “We’ve made ourselves available.
(4) Ruffin said he heard her crying through the wall; O’Brien said the evidence of police was that her pain had spread from being just at the site of her broken ribs to all over her body.
(5) [Dhu] had stabbed me in the leg with a pair of scissors, over an argument, I can’t remember what it was over,” Ruffin said.
(6) Dion Ruffin, Dhu’s partner who was arrested alongside her and placed in an adjacent cell, earlier said police dismissed Dhu’s cries of distress as her “acting like a two-year-old” or somehow connected to her intravenous drug use.
(7) François Ruffin, the journalist and film-maker behind an award-winning blockbuster documentary on textile workers , tweeted that he had won a seat for France Unbowed in the northern area of the Sommes, confounding the predictions in favour of his opponent from Macron’s party.
(8) Ruffin has a record for domestic violence offences against former partners and admitted, under questioning from counsel assisting the coroner, Ilona O’Brien, that Dhu got the two broken ribs in a “tussle” with him in Geraldton three-and-a-half months before her death.
(9) Roe told the inquest she did not like Ruffin and blamed him for changing her daughter in the year or so before her death from a “happy, bubbly child” into someone more withdrawn.
(10) Ms Dhu’s partner at the time was Dion Ruffin, a 41-year-old man arrested at the same time as her but for different offences.
(11) She was arrested alongside Deon Ruffin, her allegedly abusive, much older partner.
(12) The Western Australian police force; Western Australian country health service; two nurses who attended Dhu at the South Hedland health campus; Dhu’s mother, Della Roe, and grandmother Carole Roe; Dhu’s father, Robert Dhu; and her ex-partner Dion James Ruffin were all individually represented.
(13) Dhu, whose first name is not used for cultural reasons, was allegedly abused by her partner, Dion Ruffin, who told the inquest in November that her rib broke in a “tussle” , which he claimed Dhu started.
(14) He kept going on about how she was carrying on like a two-year-old child and she was being childish, and that this was a mental health issue.” Ruffin said he repeatedly called police on the cell intercom and pleaded with them to take Dhu to hospital because he believed that she had blood poisoning from a blister he had popped.
(15) Robert Dhu told the court that Dhu had told him Ruffin had broken her ribs when he “flogged her” .
(16) Since mid-2013 she had been in a relationship with Deon Ruffin, an Aboriginal man 18-years her senior, who, according to her family, was controlling and abusive.
(17) Ms Dhu 'treated like a dog' by police before death in custody, inquest told Read more Ruffin, who gave evidence via video link from Greenough prison on Tuesday, where he is serving time for offences including assault and breaching a violence restraining order, said that Dhu had broken her ribs in a “tussle” with him in Geraldton but denied being violent, saying “we had a few wrestles”.
(18) Dhu’s partner, Dion Ruffin, who was detained in the next cell, told The Australian he heard her crying for help on that day, but police initially refused to take her to the hospital.
(19) The infection had entered Dhu’s bloodstream through her skin and taken seed around her broken ribs, said White, adding, “The osteomyelitis is in the ribs because it was broken or injured, and that was where the source of the infection comes from.” Dhu’s family told the coroner on Monday that Dhu’s partner, Dion Ruffin, was abusive and had broken her ribs a few months before.
(20) Ruffin was arrested after police received a tipoff that he had breached his bail conditions and Dhu was picked up for $3,622 in unpaid court fines.