(n.) A secret meeting, or the place of such meeting; a tryst. See Tryst.
(a.) Sad; sorrowful; gloomy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Watkins reemphasized the need to pronounce it "phys-i-a'trist" and suggested that we be called the American Academy of Physiatrics.
(2) Fish silage was prepared from some fish species of the shrimp by-catch caught in Golfo Triste, Carabobo, Venezuela.
(3) L'Express hailed him as France's latest enfant triste – another of the country's new wave of melancholy prodigies, like novelist Françoise Sagan and painter Bertrand Buffet.
Tristy
Definition:
(a.) See Trist, a.
Example Sentences:
(1) 4 species of Mallophaga (2 Amblycera, Menacanthus eurysternus and Myrsidea sp., and 2 Ischnocera, Brueelia chayanh and Sturnidoecus affinis) coexist on the body of Common Myna, Acridotheres tristis.
(2) The sequence hybridizes to the telomeres of all chromosomes but the Y of D. tristis and produces a ladderlike hybridization pattern with filterbound genomic DNA of D. tristis digested with Eco RI or Pst I with the hybridization bands at fragment lengths in multiples of 181 bp.
(3) Thus, three clusters of closely related species could be identified: obscura (D. obscura, D. ambigua, and D. tristis), African (D. kitumensis and D. microlabis), and subobscura (D. subobscura, D. madeirensis and D. guanche), with D. subsilvestris standing apart.
(4) The optimum pH for pepsin was found to be 1.5 for P. krameri and 1.8 for both L. schach and A. tristis.
(5) The pepsin activity is higher in the proventriculus of the carnivorous L. schach and the omnivorous A. tristis than in the frugivorous P. krameri.
(6) Drosophila obscura, D. ambigua and D. tristis were found to be very closely related and thus forming a cluster in which D. ambigua occupies an intermediate position between the other two species.
(7) The histomorphology of the gastric apparatus, the pepsin level and the optimum pH for pepsin were investigated in Psittacula krameri (frugivore), Lanius schach (carnivore) and Acridotheres tristis (omnivore) species of birds.
(8) A case of human envenomization by a plectreurid spider, Plectreurys tristis Simon, is reported for the first time.
(9) Three species, D. obscura, D. ambigua, and D. tristis, are closely related and form a cluster.
(10) The gizzard is larger in A. tristis than in P. krameri and A. tritis than in the carnivore L. schach.
(11) The villi are more developed in A. tristis than in L. schach and P. krameri.
(12) Thyroidectomy in Myna, Acridotheres tristis, increased the levels of cholesterol, ascorbic acid and decreased the activity of the adrenal.
(13) Drosophila obscura displays an element B polymorphism for a pericentric inversion for which D. ambigua is fixed for one gene arrangement and D. tristis for the other.
(14) Adrenal glands of eight Indian species of birds, namely Columba livia, Passer domesticus, Corvus splendens, Acridotheres tristis, Acridotheres ginginianus, Milvus migrans, Francolinus pondicerianus and Bubulcus ibis were examined during the sexually active and inactive phases of their annual reproductive cycles.
(15) A sequence comparison among four independently cloned copies of the family from D. tristis and another homologous sequence from D. obscura, found by chance, shows a one to six per cent variation in basepair composition.
(16) Five differentiated clusters were found for the obscura subgroup species, one Nearctic, represented by Drosophila pseudoobscura, and four Palearctic, two grouping the related triads of species Drosophila subobscura, Drosophila madeirensis, Drosophila obscura, Drosophila subsilvestris, and two more represented by one species each, Drosophila bifasciata, and Drosophila tristis.
(17) The total mtDNA size range for the obscura subgroup species was from 15.5 kb for D. pseudoobscura to 17.1 for D. tristis.
(18) A morphological and histochemical study has been made of ovarian surface epithelium during the sexual cycle of seasonally breeding birds: crow (Corvus splendens) and common myna (Acridotheres tristis).
(19) A morphological and histochemical study has been made of the primordial and early growing oocytes in the ovaries of crow (Corvus splendens) and common myna (Acridotheres tristis).
(20) A correlative morphological and cytochemical study has been made of the nucleoli and nuclear bodies in the growing oocytes of the crow (Corvus splendens) and common myna (Acridotheres tristis).