(a.) Reddish; of a yellowish red or brownish red color; tawny.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the possible exception of rufous coloring, the color of the hair and eyes are poor predictors of the competence of the ureteral orifice.
(2) This report describes the ontogenesis of tonotopy in the inferior colliculus (IC) of the rufous horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus rouxi).
(3) The functional role of brainstem structures in the emission of echolocation calls was investigated in the rufous horseshoe bat.
(4) In the place of last year's depiction of the hydrological cycle and 2012's flowers , this year's doodle is half a dozen animated illustrations of species, from the photographer's favourite, the Japanese macaque ( Macaca fuscata) , to the Rufous hummingbird ( Selasphorus rufus ), a small bird found mostly on the west coast of the US.
(5) Red or rufous albinism is a rare type of oculocutaneous albinism described, but not as yet fully investigated, in Africa and New Guinea.
(6) But there it is: a huge Rufous Owl, the only exclusively tropical member of its family found in Australia, chestnut above and barred buff below, staring right back down at me with lofty disdain.
(7) The virus was isolated from two sentinel mice exposed in the epidemic zone and from a rufous collared sparrow (Zonotrichia capensis) collected in the area.
(8) The prevalence of rufous albinism was found to be approximately one in 8,580 among school children in the negroid population.
(9) Measurement of the maximum activities of key enzymes of carbohydrate, fat, and amino acid catabolism in flight muscle and heart of rufous hummingbirds (Selasphorus rufus) reveals that the high ATP requirements of short-term hovering flight can only be supported by the oxidation of carbohydrate.
(10) Female rufous-and-white wrens have less than half as large a song repertoire as female bay wrens, and all of their SCRs measured are significantly smaller than those of bay wren females.
(11) On the day before clinical symptoms appeared the patient had eaten homemade salted mushrooms, rufous milkcap (Lactarius rufus Fr.).
(12) Tyrosinase assays showed that rufous albinos are tyrosinase positive and on electron microscopy studies normal melanosomes and melanocytes were observed in hair bulbs and skin.
(13) Fasting and fed metabolic rates were measured in three species of potoroine marsupials, the rufous rat-kangaroo (Aepyprymnus rufescens), the long-nosed potoroo (Potorous tridactylus) and the brush-tailed bettong (Bettongia penicillata).
(14) Traill told Guardian Australia that animals such as bilbies, the burrowing bettong and the Rufous hare wallaby have been wiped out in areas of central and northern Australia as people move away from remote areas.
(15) Twelve rufous albino subjects from 10 families participated in this preliminary study.
(16) Bacteriophages were observed in forestomach contents from three species of Australian macropodoid marsupials possessing a foregut fermentative digestion: the eastern grey kangaroo (Macropus giganteus), the eastern wallaroo (Macropus robustus robustus), and the rufous bettong (Aepyprymnus rufescens).
(17) Rufous albinism might be at one end of the spectrum of types of oculocutaneous albinism and, because affected people have such mild symptoms, their inclusion in this group might be debatable.
(18) In the rufous horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus rouxi, responses to pure tones and sinusoidally frequency modulated (SFM) signals were recorded from 289 single units and 241 multiunit clusters located in the nuclei of the lateral lemniscus (NLL).
(19) Half of North America’s bird species, from common backyard visitors like the Baltimore oriole and the rufous hummingbird to wilderness dwellers like the common loon and bald eagle , are under threat from climate change and many could go extinct, an exhaustive new study has found.
(20) Three models for torpor initiation were tested in rufous hummingbirds (Selasphorus rufus) during moult, when these birds appear to avoid the use of torpor.
Rugous
Definition:
(a.) Wrinkled; rugose.
Example Sentences:
(1) The carious cavity shows a rugous and irregular surface.
(2) In the endolymphatic sac, dislocated statoconia were readily phagocytosed by the epithelium of the intermediate portion and rugous portion (and transitory portion).
(3) By the characteristics of the inner surface, the external collector channels are again of 2 types: (1) the smooth type, and (2) the rugous type.