(n.) An American thrush (Turdus fuscescens) common in the Northern United States and Canada. It is light tawny brown above. The breast is pale buff, thickly spotted with brown. Called also Wilson's thrush.
Example Sentences:
(1) Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease, was isolated from the liver of a passerine bird, Catharus fuscescens (veery), and from larval Ixodes dammini (tick) feeding on Pheucticus ludovicianus (rose-breasted grosbeak) and Geothlypis trichas (common yellowthroat).
(2) The veery liver isolate infected hamsters and a chick.
(3) Five ground-foraging migrant bird species favoring mesic habitats, veery (Catharus fuscescens), ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapillus), northern waterthrush (S. novaboracensis), common yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas), and swamp sparrow (Melospiza georgiana), accounted for nearly three-quarters of parasitized individuals.
(4) Studies on the DNA composition of the veery liver isolate and the strain cultured from an I. dammini larva indicated that both were B. burgdorferi and not Borrelia anserina or Borrelia hermsii.
Venery
Definition:
(n.) Sexual love; sexual intercourse; coition.
(n.) The art, act, or practice of hunting; the sports of the chase.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sterol fraction of Adiantum capillus veneris contains beta-sito sterol, stigmasterol and capesterol identified by means of spectral data (1H-NMR and MS).
(2) Twenty seven dogs (French Grande Venerie) weighing between 40 to 50 kg, were randomly assigned in three groups.
(3) In seven cases, the abuse resulted in venerial disease, in six cases pregnancy and 68 cases of lesions of the hymen.
(4) Even if plication or trapping of an enlarged clitoral shaft under the mons veneris can be regarded as sensitivity-maintaining procedures, they nevertheless do not yield satisfactory results, since painful sensations or a feeling of pressure may occur during erection.
(5) "Venery"--if not veneral disease as we understand it--was thought throughout the centuries to be the prime cause of tabes.
(6) The reported case presented with three soft, nontender polypoid lesions located on mons veneris and right labium majus.
(7) The edema of the vulva, clitoris, mons veneris and of the lower part of the abdominal wall has been reduced, the chylorrhea disappeared and the blisters on the edematous vulva vanished.
(8) I am a single man nostalgic for the days before the fashion for an entirely hairless mons veneris.
(9) Dose measurements were carried out during mammography with both conventional films without a reinforcement screen and with Low-dose films, using hot press chip lithium fluoride meters on the breast, sternum, mons Veneris, and the glabella between the supraciliary arches.