(n.) Any one of numerous species of regularly scaled harmless lizards of the family Scincidae, common in the warmer parts of all the continents.
(v. t.) To draw or serve, as drink.
(v. i.) To serve or draw liquor.
(n.) Drink; also, pottage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ultrastructural differences between cardiac and striated muscle fibres observed in the ocellated skink (Chalcides ocellatus ocellatus) indicate that functional differences have a structural correlate in the muscle cells.
(2) Future of Carmichael mine hinges not on skinks or snakes, but its business case Read more The decision to pull out of the A$16bn (£7.8bn) Carmichael mine and port throws the project further into doubt.
(3) The latest update of endangered species showed worrying declines for the okapi, the white-winged flufftail, the red belly toad, Caribbean skinks and the martial eagle.
(4) African host species are all lizards: 4 agamids, 3 skinks, 2 chamaeleonids, one chordyline, and one gerrhosaurine.
(5) Experimental doses of 200 oocysts failed to produce infections in skinks monitored for as long as 7 wk.
(6) The federal environment department lists habitat loss as a key threat to both the yakka skink and the ornamental snake.
(7) In skink brain, one immunoreactive and bioactive GnRH form, which eluted in the same position as His5,Trp7,Tyr8-GnRH on reverse phase HPLC, was identified.
(8) Australasian host species are also all lizards: 6 agamids, 9 skinks, 2 lacertids, one (or two?)
(9) The group argued Hunt has failed to take into account departmental advice on the Carmichael mine’s impact on the ornamental snake and the yakka skink.
(10) Administration of 100 mg sodium fluoroacetate (compound 1080) per kilogram body weight to T. rugosa resulted in a 3.4-fold increase in plasma citrate levels 48 h after dosing while administration of 3 mg sodium fluoroacetate per kilogram body weight to R. norvegicus produced a fivefold increase in plasma citrate levels within 4 h. Administration of 300 mg sodium fluoroacetate per kilogram body weight reduced the oxygen consumption of the skink by between 2.5 and 11% while in the rat, 2 mg sodium fluoroacetate per kilogram body weight reduced oxygen consumption by between 28 and 57%.
(11) Today it’s the yakka skink, tomorrow it will be the koala,” she said in a statement.
(12) Some of these conditions are designed to protect threatened species such as the black-throated finch , red goshawk and yakka skink .
(13) The gastrointestinal tract of the King's skink (Egernia kingii) was examined for the presence of fifteen regulatory peptides, two proteinases and an amine by immunohistochemical methods.
(14) Experimentally infected skinks produced large numbers of oocysts continuously during the 3-4 wk they were monitored after the onset of patency, but exhibited no signs of disease.
(15) The house mouse (laboratory strain), Mus musculus (L.), the cotton mouse, Peromyscus gossypinus (LeConte), the broad-headed skink, Eumeces laticeps (Schneider), and the guinea pig, Cavia porcellus (L.), were successively infested five times with larvae of the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis Say.
(16) Coalition will take six to eight weeks to revise its Carmichael coalmine approval Read more The federal environment department has said it will take six to eight weeks to reassess the project after it emerged the environment minister, Greg Hunt, had not properly considered the mine’s impact on two vulnerable species – the yakka skink and the ornamental snake.
(17) The use of ketamine hydrochloride and sodium pentobarbitone in the anaesthesia of two species of Australian skink was examined.
(18) This prompted an attack on Wednesday from trade minister Andrew Robb on conservationists he said were using “a skink” for “a patsy” in obstructionist legal challenges that were undermining trade talks with India.
(19) The structure of the Sertoli cell and its physical relationship with the germ cells was studied in laboratory maintained skinks, Eumeces laticeps (Schneider) in January, and September, corresponding to the periods of prenuptial and postnuptial spermatogenesis respectively.
(20) Respiration in both species was depressed but heart rate was increased in Bobtail skinks (Tiliqua rugosa) and depressed in King's skinks (Egernia kingii).