(n.) The Beaks; the stage or platform in the forum where orations, pleadings, funeral harangues, etc., were delivered; -- so called because after the Latin war, it was adorned with the beaks of captured vessels; later, applied also to other platforms erected in Rome for the use of public orators.
(n.) Hence, a stage for public speaking; the pulpit or platform occupied by an orator or public speaker.
(n.) Any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal, as the beak of birds.
(n.) The beak, or sucking mouth parts, of Hemiptera.
(n.) The snout of a gastropod mollusk. See Illust. of Littorina.
(n.) The anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the prawn.
(n.) Same as Rostellum.
(n.) The pipe to convey the distilling liquor into its receiver in the common alembic.
(n.) A pair of forceps of various kinds, having a beaklike form.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unlike SI, which possesses a disproportionately large representation of the rostrum, SII has no specialized representation of the rostrum.
(2) Then Obama himself swooped in with a big bear hug around Giffords's tiny frame, grinning widely before climbing to the rostrum for the speech.
(3) 'Froch, Dock, Hoch - whatever his name is - has been making his name on the back of my son for the last six years, He's not even on our rostrum, let me tell you.
(4) Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic in 1949 from the rostrum – shortly before ordering the expansion of the square.
(5) Donald Trump, Pope Francis, and the war of words over US immigration Read more Speaking from a rostrum never before occupied by a pope, the Argentinian told a rare joint meeting of Congress to reject xenophobia and embrace immigrants.
(6) We divided the corpus callosum into three segments: rostrum and genu; anterior and posterior trunks; splenium.
(7) Callosal fibers from the ventral half of the frontal cortex passed through the rostrum, and those from the ventral occipital and dorsal temporal cortex passed through the ventral splenium.
(8) Speaking at a white rostrum amid flags, flourishes and gold leaf, a dapper-looking Putin's message was clear: after years of being cheated and dissed by the western powers, Russia is back.
(9) He could laugh at himself in the style of the most sophisticated political satirist, and move on to threaten thunder and revolution from the rostrum.
(10) 500,000-750,000 short free kinetosomes are concentrated in a dense column which extends from the centriolar apparatus in the rostrum to the anterior side of the nucleus Most of the short free kinetosomes in the column are arranged end-to-end in chains of varying lengths.
(11) The results demonstrate that the secondary palate contributes significantly to the torsional strength and stiffness of the rostrum of Didelphis and to the strength of each maxilla in lateromedial bending.
(12) Using microsurgical technique, we followed the path described by Bogen and Vogel requiring division of the corpus callosum from rostrum to splenium, the anterior commisure, one fornix, and hippocampal commissure.
(13) Ryan’s first mention of Trump was his promise that at the next State of the Union address, “you’ll find me right there on the rostrum with Vice-President Mike Pence and President Donald Trump”, at which the crowd began chanting Trump’s name.
(14) Unlike talpids, chrysochlorids have eyes covered with skin; pick-like foreclaws; a blunt, padded rostrum; and no external tail.
(15) Considering that eye movements express visual dreams in humans and are prominent during desynchronized sleep in cats, monkeys and birds, rostrum movements were investigated in a macrosmatic species, the rat, to assess the hypothesis that, expressing olfactory and tactile (involving the vibrissae) dreams, they would prevail over eye movements.
(16) The deflection of the rostrum is situated in the region of the right premaxillar bone.
(17) Buoyed by successive opinion polls showing growing support, Salmond taunted Cameron from his rostrum: "If at any point David Cameron walks in, I am available for this debate," he said, to chuckles from the largely middle-aged audience.
(18) For loading at the incisors and canines, these properties indicate the structural strength and stiffness in both bending and torsion of the rostrum and of single maxillae.
(19) But it's about more than just colour: other visual motifs include long tracking shots, 90-degree whip pans and tilts, rostrum shots over miniature models, intertitles ( font: Futura ), montages, storybook stylings, and an almost Kubrickian obsession with symmetry and camera movement.
(20) However some parts have a dual origin: rhombo-mesencephalic neural crest cells are found in the otic capsule, and the frontal bone, the rostrum of parasphenoid and the orbital cartilages contain diverse amounts of prosencephalo-mesencephalic neural crest cells.
Weevil
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of snout beetles, or Rhynchophora, in which the head is elongated and usually curved downward. Many of the species are very injurious to cultivated plants. The larvae of some of the species live in nuts, fruit, and grain by eating out the interior, as the plum weevil, or curculio, the nut weevils, and the grain weevil (see under Plum, Nut, and Grain). The larvae of other species bore under the bark and into the pith of trees and various other plants, as the pine weevils (see under Pine). See also Pea weevil, Rice weevil, Seed weevil, under Pea, Rice, and Seed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Expression of heat shock proteins (hsp) in the BRL-AG-3C cell line from the cotton boll weevil was examined.
(2) The pH optima using [3H]casein as substrate were about pH 6.8 for the rice weevil and pH 5.2 for the red flour beetle.
(3) Boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis) eggs contain two yolk proteins, YP47 and YP160.
(4) The latter study indicated the presence of an oviposition marker, a new kind of pheromone, which was derived from the weevil and was lipid in nature, and suggested its possible use as an oviposition inhibitor.
(5) Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis was used to examine gut, Malpighian tube, fat-body, testes, and ovarioles tissues of the adult cotton boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis Boh.
(6) The first are called vitellogenins and are found in frog, chicken, nematode, fish, and some insects such as the boll weevil.
(7) A compound responsible for the stimulation of oogenesis observed after copulation is present in the spermatophores produced by the male accessory glands of the bean weevil Acanthoscelides obtectus.
(8) The esterases of the cotton boll weevil were separated by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis into four major regions.
(9) Moreover, the six introns in the boll weevil vitellogenin gene interrupt the coding region at positions closely or exactly corresponding to a subset of the positions of the 34 vertebrate vitellogenin introns, further supporting the argument for a common evolutionary relationship.
(10) Protein sequence similarities including Cys clusters conserved between boll weevil vitellogenin and Xenopus laevis A2 or Caenorhabditis elegans vit-5 vitellogenins indicated that the boll weevil protein is a member of the ancient nematode-vertebrate vitellogenin family.
(11) Esterase II was separated, using gel electrophoresis, from the frass of the cotton boll weevil, allowing genotyping of the individual weevil.
(12) These cDNAs were used to probe a genomic library, and two overlapping genomic clones were obtained that span the boll weevil vitellogenin gene.
(13) Electrophoresis of midgut extracts from the rice weevil, Sitophilus oryzae, and the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, in polyacrylamide gels containing sodium dodecyl sulfate and gelatin revealed there was one major proteinase (apparent molecular mass = 40,000) in the rice weevil and two major proteinases (apparent molecular masses = 20,000 and 17,000) in the red flour beetle.
(14) The cationic lipid preparation Lipofectin was found to be very efficient at transfecting the boll weevil cells.
(15) As part of a program to identify as many as possible of the components of the pecan weevil, Curculio caryae (Horn), the hydrocarbons from males, females, and larvae were isolated by solvent extraction and column chromatography and subjected to gas lipuid chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis.
(16) A coleopteran cell line (AGE) derived from the cotton boll weevil Anthonomus grandis supported replication of Autographa californica multiple nuclear polyhedrosis virus (AcMNPV).
(17) This study was performed in order to investigate the production of H2O2 by mitochondria isolated from granary weevil (Sitophilus granarius) and mouse liver on exposure to PH3.
(18) To study the role of the potential insect allergens, extracts were prepared from whole body and a grain dust of the rice and grain weevil (Sitophilus granarius).
(19) A biologically active metabolite was found in crude extracts of an unidentified species of Phomopsis isolated from weevil-damaged pecans.
(20) There are no significant differences between the hydrocarbons of the male and female pecan weevils.