(a.) Originally, a brawling, turbulent, vexatious person of either sex, but now restricted in use to females; a brawler; a scold.
(a.) Any small insectivore of the genus Sorex and several allied genera of the family Sorecidae. In form and color they resemble mice, but they have a longer and more pointed nose. Some of them are the smallest of all mammals.
(a.) To beshrew; to curse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Musk shrews (Suncus murinus) were maintained for 8 weeks in long (16 h light:8 h darkness) or short (8 h light:16 h darkness) daylengths.
(2) Mating experiments indicated that the kinky-coat character is controlled by a single autosomal recessive gene designated kc (kinky coat), which is not allelic to the gene ch (curly hair) previously reported in the Tr strain derived from wild musk shrews on Taramajima Island, Japan.
(3) The feedback mechanism between the gonad and the pituitary may be slightly different in the shrew from that in other mammals.
(4) Seroprevalence surveys have shown the presence of toxoplasmosis in local meat animals (sheep, pigs and cattle) and Toxoplasma strains have been isolated from the pig, tree shrew (Tupaia glis), slow loris (Nycticebus coucang) and guinea pigs.
(5) The regression is less pronounced in voles than in shrews.
(6) The histochemical study of the Ear of female Suncus murinus (Indian musk shrew) was studied by the use of the cholinesterase technique.
(7) This difference may have relevance to the low T3 state of the shrew.
(8) 1, the time course for the photoperiodic response in juvenile male musk shrews was examined by exposing animals to short (10L:14D) or long (14L:10D or 18L:6D) daylengths for 10, 20, 40 or 56 days.
(9) A morphological study of parafollicular cells in the thyroid gland and parathyroid gland of the house shrew (Suncus murinus) was made.
(10) Special attention was given to measuring BMR in resting and postabsorptive shrews.
(11) Such an insuloacinar portal system found in the pancreas of the tree shrew was similar to that found in the horse and monkey.
(12) The contributions of the ovary and the adrenal gland to sexual behavior were examined in the female musk shrew (Suncus murinus).
(13) Adult male common shrews, both Robertsonian heterozygotes and homozygotes, were collected from Oxford and elsewhere in Britain.
(14) The adult body weight of the F1 shrews at 120 days of age averaged 86.0g in the males and 51.7g in the females.
(15) Our results suggest that GABAergic circuitry is an important part of the functional organization in the LGN of the tree shrew.
(16) In Experiment 3, ovariectomized musk shrews were treated with E2 implants.
(17) The macroscopic and microscopic distribution of intramuscularly injected, essentially monomeric, 239Pu was studied in the skeleton of the adult tree shrew (Tupaia belangeri).
(18) The lingual gingival and the alveolar mucosa of mandible of the house musk shrew (Suncus murinus) were stained by methylene blue vital staining or osmic acid staining, and mounted as whole thickness preparations.
(19) Eosinophilopoiesis in the musk shrew, Suncus murinus, a representative of the order Insectivora, was studied by light and electron microscopy.
(20) Both the segmental distribution of hindlimb dorsal root fibers and their pattern of termination in Clark's nucleus in the tree shrew were similar to that reported in quadrupedal primates and other quadrupedal mammalian forms.
Termagant
Definition:
(n.) An imaginary being supposed by the Christians to be a Mohammedan deity or false god. He is represented in the ancient moralities, farces, and puppet shows as extremely vociferous and tumultous.
(n.) A boisterous, brawling, turbulent person; -- formerly applied to both sexes, now only to women.