(n.) A large American carnivore (Felis concolor), found from Canada to Patagonia, especially among the mountains. Its color is tawny, or brownish yellow, without spots or stripes. Called also catamount, cougar, American lion, mountain lion, and panther or painter.
Example Sentences:
(1) The group comprised 29 pumas (Felis concolor), 32 lions (Panthera leo), 27 tigers (P tigris), 19 leopards (P pardus), 18 jaguars (P onca) and 22 cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus).
(2) Thewlis said the Trust will contact kit suppliers Puma and Wonga to investigate the possibility of replica shirts being made available without the sponsor's logo.
(3) Chemical properties that might be associated with a previously demonstrated difference in molecular charge of purified RUBPCase from cold-hardened and unhardened Puma rye were investigated.
(4) Kering and Puma have published the true cost of the environmental impacts of Puma’s business activities across its supply chain in their Environmental Profit & Loss (E P&L) statement, now being rolled out across all Kering’s brands.
(5) Manchester United are at the centre of a bidding war for a kit deal that could be worth a record £70m a year, with Nike, Adidas, Warrior and Puma reportedly vying to win the contract.
(6) It's a partnership with Puma, the German sports company, and is claimed to be "a wearable fashion accessory".
(7) No men in women’s bathrooms, no boys in girls’ showers or locker rooms.” The man nicknamed Big Puma was referring to a question posed to Houstonians as part of the city’s mayoral election on 3 November: should the city keep its equal rights ordinance?
(8) For the 2014-2015 season, Nike will continue in its role of technical sponsor and trademark licensee.” As reported in the Guardian in January , the contract dwarfs the £30m a-year terms agreed by Arsenal with Puma in that month.
(9) Inseminations using heterologous (domestic cat) spermatozoa also resulted in fertilized oocytes in the tiger, leopard, snow leopard, puma, serval, and Geoffroy's cat (range in fertilization rate, 5.0% for leopard to 46.2% for puma).
(10) On Monday, Arsenal announced a £30m-a-year contract with Puma , meaning United are in line to more than double that amount.
(11) We studied the IgE and IgG4 response of 11 cat-allergic patients against Fel d I-like structures in eight members of the Felidae family: ocelot, puma, serval, siberian tiger, lion, jaguar, snow leopard, and caracal.
(12) In conjunction with an ecological study of jaguars in the Cockscomb Basin of Belize, Central America, fecal samples from jaguars (Panthera onca), jaguarundis (Felis yagouaroundi), ocelots (Felix pardalis), and pumas (Felix concolor) were examined for parasite products (eggs, larvae, and oocysts).
(13) "And adidas, Nike, Puma etc slavishly going along with it.
(14) He has just released his 19th book alongside Jochen Zeitz, former CEO of PUMA and now co-chair, with Sir Richard Branson, of The B Team.
(15) Arsène Wenger will agree a new contract with Arsenal in the near future and is set to be significantly backed in the summer transfer window after the club announced on Monday a record £150m kit deal with Puma, which lasts until 2019.
(16) It proved so successful that sports brand Puma then invited him and fellow Instagrammer Anthony Danielle to document the Volvo Ocean Race in Abu Dhabi, all expenses paid.
(17) According to their site, Pumapac.org, Puma stands for "People United Means Action", an exactly opposite sentiment, prompting the thought that if they don't iron out such inconsistencies in their message very soon indeed, there's a serious chance that Clinton might not be the next president.
(18) Leather from animals is a highly polluting process that generates much toxic runoff via the Chromium-6 salts used in the curing process and the enormous quantities of discarded solid waste and contaminated water,” says Wool, whose company has begun collaborating with Nike and Puma on developing an athletic shoe made out of non-toxic materials.
(19) However, peak cortisol levels in cheetahs and pumas after ACTH were greater (p less than 0.01) than the concentrations measured after EE, indicating that these manipulatory procedures were not eliciting a maximal adrenal response.
(20) Individual values in one female puma are also given.
Pupa
Definition:
(n.) Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage.
(n.) A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell.
Example Sentences:
(1) Histolysis and pyknosis begin in the prepupa and decrease considerably in the late pupa.
(2) Changes in haemolymph protein fractions and histology, of adipose tissue has been observed in the larvae, pupae and newly emerged adults of Danais chrysippus.
(3) The description of its larvae and some additional data on the taxonomy of males, females and pupae are given.
(4) In the case of glass, Gore-tex, and Dacron, which are insoluble in the solvent of the coating solution, only a superficial layer of PUPA could be obtained.
(5) Subsequently (35-hr pupa) the DLM commences to degenerate, forming random clumps of vacuolated muscle tissue.
(6) Specific immunohistochemical staining was detected in a variety of tissue types: the embryonic CNS; a few cell bodies in the central brain of pupae; these and other cells in the central brain of adults, as well as imaginal cells in the eyes, optic lobes, and the gut.
(7) With a silkworm pupa ovary mRNA, distinctly reverase results were obtained.
(8) Acidic glycolipids from pupae were also recognized, but only by the L2 antibody 334 and IgM M-protein.
(9) Thus, one may deduce that stopped larvae could have low levels of ecdysone, and perhaps these are the ultimate physiological cause of their arrested development before the critical larva-pupa molt.
(10) After mitoses have ended in the late pupa, the cells were arrested in G2.
(11) The facilitation of eclosion by adult colony members appears to be an obligatory process in the development of this species; pupae denied the aid of adult workers during eclosion are unable to remove the pupal cuticle and rapidly succumb.
(12) Fractionation of hemolymph from untreated pupae provided evidence for at least one preexisting factor which stimulated the killing of Escherichia coli.
(13) The device is particularly adaptable for the separation of large numbers of pupae without mechanical injury.
(14) The presence of glycosphingolipids in the pupae of the blowfly, Calliphora vicina, was established.
(15) 62, 1157 (1958] and to relaxation data reported in mycelia of Botrytis cinerea Persoon and pupae of the tobacco cutworm (M. Yoshida and K. Nose, Agric.
(16) The mean weight of the pupae produced by the membrane-fed flies was 24.9 mg.
(17) Heat shock induces a single large puff (hs puff) near the tip of chromosome arm EL in polytene foot pad cells of fly pupae (Sarcophaga bullata).
(18) Early stages of differentiation of the oocytes and nurse cells are comparatively studied in the polytrophic ovarioles in larvae, pupae and imago of the butterfly Laspeyresia pomonella and in the telotrophic ovarioles in larvae and imago of the bug Eurigaster integriceps.
(19) The levels of potassium, sodium, magnesium and calcium in leaves, midgut contents, midgut tissue, and blood were analysed in seven developmental stages between feeding, fourth-instar larvae and new pupae of the Cecropia silkworm.
(20) Starting from a crystal-negative parental strain of Bacillus thuringiensis, we isolated certain bacteriophage-resistant mutants which showed decreased virulence in pupae of the cecropia moth (Hyalophora cecropia).