(n.) The knot, or red-breasted snipe; -- called also robin breast, and robin snipe. See Knot.
(n.) The long-eared pondfish. See Pondfish.
Example Sentences:
(1) n. is described from the warmouth, Lepomis gulosus (Cuvier); brown bullhead, Ictalurus nebulosus (Lesueur); yellow bullhead, I. natalis (Lesueur); redbreast sunfish, L. auritus (Linnaeus); bluegill, L. macrochirus Rafinesque; spotted sunfish, L. punctatus (Valenciennes); and redfin pickerel, Esox americanus (Gmelin), from the Alabama River Drainage, brown bullhead from the Mobile Bay Drainage in Alabama, and pirate perch, Aphredoderus sayanus Gilliams, from an Atlantic Coast drainage in Georgia.
(2) Two highly repeated nucleotide sequences (RBMI and RBMII) cloned from an EcoRI digest of DNA of the redbreasted merganser (Mergus serrator) account for approx.
(3) Female redbreast sunfish from the BKME-impacted river contained a large number of atretic oocytes and had lower serum levels of estradiol than fish from the reference site.
(4) In the era of The Manchurian Candidate , the anxieties expressed in Rosemary are found everywhere; with the similarly pregnant heroine of John Bowen's interesting BBC play, Robin Redbreast (1970), just as with Edward Woodward 's entrapped puritan policeman in the Anthony Shaffer-scripted The Wicker Man (1973).
(5) The fish collected were Bass, Bluegill, Redbreast, Catfish, Shad, Carp, Crappie, Mudfish and Pike.
Robin
Definition:
(n.) A small European singing bird (Erythacus rubecula), having a reddish breast; -- called also robin redbreast, robinet, and ruddock.
(n.) An American singing bird (Merula migratoria), having the breast chestnut, or dull red. The upper parts are olive-gray, the head and tail blackish. Called also robin redbreast, and migratory thrush.
(n.) Any one of several species of Australian warblers of the genera Petroica, Melanadrays, and allied genera; as, the scarlet-breasted robin (Petroica mullticolor).
(n.) Any one of several Asiatic birds; as, the Indian robins. See Indian robin, below.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nick Robins, head of the Climate Change Centre at HSBC, said: "If you think about low-carbon energy only in terms of carbon, then things look tough [in terms of not using coal].
(2) Though the problems associated with Robin sequence may be numerous, especially if the primary cause of the sequence is a multiple anomaly syndrome, the most acute problems in affected newborns is upper airway obstruction.
(3) ... and the #housingstrategy on Twitter: Robin Macfarlane, a retired businessman: @MacfarlaneRobin House building should have been on the agenda from day one.
(4) Cape no longer has the monopoly on talent; the stars are scattered these days, and Franklin's "fantastically discriminating" deputy Robin Robertson can take credit for many recent triumphs, including their most recent Booker winner, Anne Enright.
(5) "This is a step I never thought I would see," said Prof Robin Ali , a molecular geneticist at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology in London.
(6) Top Gear, Robin Hood, Doctor Who, Primeval and Spooks were the company's top five highest-grossing shows sold internationally.
(7) The antibody, 636 (Robins et al., 1990), induced significant RTA cytotoxicity against MKN45 gastric carcinoma cells which express high levels of CEA, using the r-RTA at a concentration below that known to be intrinsically cytotoxic.
(8) The XI the Scot sent out featured no Robin van Persie, who was on the bench, while Nemanja Vidic, Patrice Evra, Chris Smalling, Danny Welbeck and Marouane Fellaini did not make the squad due to injuries.
(9) Signing up Round-robin emails encouraging web users to sign e-petitions have attracted hundreds of thousands of signatures.
(10) "Robin van Persie scored more than 30 goals [the season before last] and they were nowhere near the title.
(11) Responding to Golby's comments about Kingsnorth, the head of Greenpeace's climate and energy campaign, Robin Oakley, said: "E.ON has finally admitted that the plans for a new coal plant at Kingsnorth that it submitted to the government fall well short of what is needed and what is possible.
(12) August 11, 2014 The British actor and stand-up star, Eddie Izzard, tweeted: “Robin Williams has died and I am very sad.
(13) For the avoidance of any doubt, I will be asking this independent reviewer to examine all the evidence originally considered by Sir Robin and to establish whether his findings and recommendations still stand in the light of the new email evidence that has now emerged.” Under the law, schools are only permitted half a day’s notice of Ofsted inspections.
(14) "It is impossible to imagine this is not linked to the shooting down of the Malaysian airliner," said David Clark, chairman of the Russia Foundation and a former adviser to the Labour foreign secretary, Robin Cook.
(15) In a statement, Pamela Stephenson Connolly said: "Robin was one of the most uniquely brilliant and complicated comic artists the world has ever known.
(16) Robin Le Mare Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria • Join the debate – email guardian.letters@theguardian.com
(17) The only downside was that his link-up play with Robin van Persie was noticeable for its absence.
(18) In the round-robin format, eight laboratories used the proposed method to test each of five protective clothing materials against five liquid chemicals that are widely used commercially.
(19) The results illustrate that the brain invasion is probably not hematogenic but rather due to a process of parasite migration from the subarachnoidal space over the Virchow-Robin spaces into the brain.
(20) Henry McDonald reports from Dublin: Leftwing Labour TDs and a member of the European parliament urged the government today to impose a new 48% income tax on those who earn more than €100,000 a year and a Robin-Hood-style bankers' tax on financial transactions.