Basking shark
() One of the largest species of sharks (Cetorhinus maximus), so called from its habit of basking in the sun |
Bronze
(a.) An alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. It is hard and sonorous, and is used for statues, bells, cannon, etc., the proportions of the ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes. The varieties containing the higher proportions of tin are brittle, as in bell metal and speculum metal. |
Bronze
(a.) A statue, bust, etc., cast in bronze. |
Bronze
(a.) A yellowish or reddish brown, the color of bronze |
Bronze
(a.) Boldness |
Bronze
(n.) To give an appearance of bronze to, by a coating of bronze powder, or by other means |
Bronze
(n.) To make hard or unfeeling |
Chessy copper
() The mineral azurite, found in fine crystallization at Chessy, near Lyons |
Cocktail
(n.) A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened. |
Cocktail
(n.) A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins. |
Cocktail
(n.) A mean, half-hearted fellow |
Cocktail
(n.) A species of rove beetle |
Coll
(v. t.) To embrace. |
Copper
(n.) A common metal of a reddish color, both ductile and malleable, and very tenacious. It is one of the best conductors of heat and electricity. Symbol Cu. Atomic weight 63.3. It is one of the most useful metals in itself, and also in its alloys, brass and bronze. |
Copper
(n.) A coin made of copper |
Copper
(n.) A vessel, especially a large boiler, made of copper. |
Copper
(n.) the boilers in the galley for cooking |
Copper
(v. t.) To cover or coat with copper |
Copper-bottomed
(a.) Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship. |
Copper-faced
(a.) Faced or covered with copper |
Copper-fastened
(a.) Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc. |
Copper-nickel
(n.) Niccolite. |
Copper-nose
(n.) A red nose. |
Copper works
() A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. |
Genus
(n.) A class of objects divided into several subordinate species |
Genus
(n.) An assemblage of species, having so many fundamental points of structure in common, that in the judgment of competent scientists, they may receive a common substantive name. A genus is not necessarily the lowest definable group of species, for it may often be divided into several subgenera. In proportion as its definition is exact, it is natural genus |
Phosphor-bronze
(n.) A variety of bronze possessing great hardness, elasticity, and toughness, obtained by melting copper with tin phosphide. It contains one or two per cent of phosphorus and from five to fifteen per cent of tin. |
Shark
(v. t. & i.) Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas. |
Shark
(v. t. & i.) A rapacious, artful person |
Shark
(v. t. & i.) Trickery |
Shark
(v. t.) To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly. |
Shark
(v. i.) To play the petty thief |
Shark
(v. i.) To live by shifts and stratagems. |
Whaler
(n.) A vessel or person employed in the whale fishery. |
Whaler
(n.) One who whales, or beats |
Zoological
(a.) Of or pertaining to zoology, or the science of animals. |
shark repellent
porcupine provision | a measure undertaken by a corporation to discourage unwanted takeover attempts |
| form genus | an artificial taxonomic category established on the basis of morphological resemblance for organisms of obscure true relationships especially fossil forms |
Heliobacter
genus Heliobacter | a genus of helical or curved or straight aerobic bacteria with rounded ends and multiple flagella, found in the gastric mucosa of primates (including humans) |
| bacteria genus | a genus of bacteria |
Aerobacter
genus Aerobacter | aerobic bacteria widely distributed in nature |
Rhizobium
genus Rhizobium | the type genus of Rhizobiaceae, usually occur in the root nodules of legumes, can fix atmospheric oxygen |
Agrobacterium
genus Agrobacterium | small motile bacterial rods that can reduce nitrates and cause galls on plant stems |
| genus Bacillus | type genus of the Bacillaceae, includes many saprophytes important in decay of organic matter and a number of parasites |
| genus Clostridium | anaerobic or micro-aerophilic rod-shaped or spindle-shaped saprophytes, nearly cosmopolitan in soil, animal intestines, and dung |
| genus Nostoc | type genus of the family Nostocaceae: freshwater blue-green algae |
| genus Trichodesmium | a genus of blue-green algae |
Pseudomonas
genus Pseudomonas | type genus of the family Pseudomonodaceae |
Xanthomonas
genus Xanthomonas | a genus of bacteria similar to Pseudomonas but producing a yellow pigment that is not soluble in water |
Nitrobacter
genus Nitrobacter | rod-shaped soil bacteria |
Nitrosomonas
genus Nitrosomonas | ellipsoidal soil bacteria |
| genus Thiobacillus | a genus of bacteria |
| genus Spirillum | a genus of bacteria |
| genus Vibrio | a genus of bacteria |
Bacteroides
genus Bacteroides | type genus of Bacteroidaceae, genus of Gram-negative rodlike anaerobic bacteria producing no endospores and no pigment and living in the gut of man and animals |
Calymmatobacterium
genus Calymmatobacterium | a genus of bacterial rods containing only the one species that causes granuloma inguinale |
Francisella
genus Francisella | a genus of Gram-negative aerobic bacteria that occur as pathogens and parasite in many animals (including humans) |
| genus Corynebacterium | the type genus of the family Corynebacteriaceae which is widely distributed in nature, the best known are parasites and pathogens of humans and domestic animals |
| genus Listeria | a genus of aerobic motile bacteria of the family Corynebacteriaceae containing small Gram-positive rods |
| genus Escherichia | a genus of bacteria |
| genus Klebsiella | a genus of bacteria |
| genus Salmonella | a genus of bacteria |
genus Serratia
Serratia | a genus of motile peritrichous bacteria that contain small Gram-negative rod |
| genus Shigella | a genus of bacteria |
| genus Erwinia | a genus of bacteria |
| genus Rickettsia | can cause typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever in humans |
| genus Chlamydia | type genus of the family Chlamydiaceae: diseaseausing parasites |
| genus Mycoplasma | type and sole genus of the family Mycoplasmataceae |
| genus Actinomyces | type genus of the family Actinomycetaceae |
| genus Streptomyces | type genus of the family Streptomycetaceae |
| genus Mycobacterium | nonmotile Gram-positive aerobic bacteria |
Polyangium
genus Polyangium | type genus of the family Polyangiaceae: myxobacteria with rounded fruiting bodies enclosed in a membrane |
Micrococcus
genus Micrococcus | type genus of the family Micrococcaceae |
| genus Staphylococcus | includes many pathogenic species |
| genus Lactobacillus | type genus of the family Lactobacillaceae |
| genus Diplococcus | a genus of bacteria |
| genus Streptococcus | a genus of bacteria |
Spirochaeta
genus Spirochaeta | the type genus of the family Spirochaetaceae, a bacterium that is flexible, undulating, and chiefly aquatic |
| genus Treponema | type genus of Treponemataceae: anaerobic spirochetes with an undulating rigid body, parasitic in warm-blooded animals |
| genus Borrelia | small flexible parasitic spirochetes having three to five wavy spirals |
| genus Leptospira | very slender aerobic spirochetes, free-living or parasitic in mammals |
| protoctist genus | any genus of Protoctista |
| genus Amoeba | protozoan inhabiting moist soils or bottom vegetation in fresh or salt water |
Endamoeba
genus Endamoeba | the type genus of the family Endamoebidae |
| genus Globigerina | type genus of the family Globigerinidae |
| genus Arcella | type genus of the Arcellidae |