(n.) A neatling of a pigeon or other similar bird, esp. when very fat and not fully fledged.
(n.) A person of a short, fat figure.
(n.) A thickly stuffed cushion; especially, one used for the seat of a sofa, couch, or chair; also, a sofa.
(adv.) With a heavy fall; plump.
(v. i.) To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.
Example Sentences:
(1) But it includes other delicious things, too: pot-roasted squab, stewed rabbit, braised oxtail.
(2) Prolactin significantly increased the incidence or frequency of parental regurgitation-feeding episodes in tests with all three squab age groups and, in addition, increased the incidence of parental feeding invitations (squab-oriented bill openings) in tests with 6- to 8-day-old squabs.
(3) These changes suggest that all the food was not being digested by the adult birds during brooding but was almost exclusively regurgitated to feed the squabs.
(4) A simultaneous squab--egg choice test was given on days 1, 4, 10, and 13 of incubation and on the day following hatching in normal reproductive cycles of experienced and naïve male and female ring doves.
(5) The period is made up of 15 days incubating eggs and 4-5 days brooding squabs.
(6) With the use of genetically marked transferrin, a major portion of circulating transferrin from a newly hatched squab was found to be derived from the mother through the egg.
(7) env sequences were not detectable in DNAs from Japanese quail, ring-necked pheasant, golden pheasant, duck, squab, salmon sperm, or calf thymus.
(8) Squabs introduced during late incubation have more of a positive effect on squab choice than when introduced during early incubation.
(9) In the second experiment, birds fed the diet with no supplemental fat did not produce squabs, whereas fat-supplemented diets resulted in production of at least six squabs.
(10) Systemic administration of ovine prolactin (PRL) has been previously reported to stimulate parental feeding behavior toward 7-day-old foster squabs by nonbreeding ring doves with previous breeding experience.
(11) The DNAs of 11 various mammalian and avian species, including both natural predators of mice and squabs from the farms with virus-positive mice, lacked amphotropic envelope-related sequences.
(12) Weekly, when new offspring were banded, a squab data sheet was taken into the pen to record the offspring's permanent leg band number, hatch date, strain, pen number, and parents' band numbers.
(13) Average energy intake was about 235 kcal ME per pair per day for pigeons not producing squabs.
(14) Experiment II shows that squab reared without seed in their home cage do not develop normal levels of pecking unless exposure to seed is followed in close temporal proximity by interaction with parents.
(15) Two experiments were conducted to study the effects on the performance of squabbing pigeons of two feeding systems based on two protein levels, two fat sources, and varying fat and energy levels.
(16) Such feedings may have been essential for producing the previous observation (Graf, Balsam, & Silver, 1985) that pecking develops normally if squab which have been separated from their parents are given a daily 20-min interaction with seed followed by an immediate return to their parents.
(17) However, squab must actually be given experience in handling and ingesting seeds before adult levels of pecking can be obtained.
(18) Young squabs may be permanently sterilized when fed crop milk by treated birds.
(19) In this experiment, 6- to 8-day-old test squabs were used to determine if parental behavior is enhanced by twice-daily intracerebroventricular (ICV) injections of PRL in doses below those required to stimulate peripheral target organs.
(20) It is concluded that an association between some aspect of squab's interaction with seed and a parentally provided unconditioned stimulus is sufficient for normal pecking to develop.
Squeaker
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, squeaks.
(n.) The Australian gray crow shrile (Strepera anaphonesis); -- so called from its note.
Example Sentences:
(1) A toy squeaker held by the patient in the contralateral hand is used to monitor cerebral circulation during carotid endarterectomy.
(2) Hudler wasn't wrong: in the two nights leading up to the matinee squeaker, KC exploded for 22 runs, annihilating two pitchers you may be familiar with – Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer.
(3) Hopkins said he been looking for the cave squeaker for eight years.
(4) The Arthroleptis troglodytes , also known as the “cave squeaker” because of its preferred habitat, was discovered in 1962, but there were no reported sightings since then.
(5) She said a park management plan will be devised to protect the cave squeaker.
(6) I say yes, the Heat will win a squeaker, like 100-98.
(7) Rare 'cave squeaker' frog seen in Zimbabwe for first time in 55 years Read more In normal light the frog appears to have a dull, mottled browny-green skin with red dots, but under UV light it glows a bright fluorescent green.
(8) Laughing in front of a packed town hall in the New Hampshire small town of Peterborough, Romney said he was "fresh from his landslide victory" in Iowa before calling the result a "squeaker".