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Meaning of "lapillus" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD LAPILLUS

Latin: little stone.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF LAPILLUS

ləˈpɪləs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LAPILLUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Lapillus is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LAPILLUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of lapillus in the English dictionary

The definition of lapillus in the dictionary is a small piece of lava thrown from a volcano.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LAPILLUS

acidophilus · Angelus · aspergillus · bacillus · cancellous · erysipelas · eyeless · killas · lactobacillus · malus · microvillous · microvillus · nautilus · papillous · perilous · pilous · stylus · talus · Theophilus · villous

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LAPILLUS

lapidaries · lapidarist · lapidary · lapidate · lapidation · lapideous · lapidescence · lapidescent · lapidicolous · lapidific · lapidification · lapidified · lapidifies · lapidify · lapidist · lapilli · lapilliform · lapin · lapis · lapis lazuli

WORDS THAT END LIKE LAPILLUS

actinobacillus · arillus · callus · Catullus · comma bacillus · gallus · Lucullus · Marcellus · ocellus · phallus · pneumobacillus · pullus · pulvillus · streptobacillus · Tellus · thallus · thiobacillus · Tibullus · tubercle bacillus · villus

Synonyms and antonyms of lapillus in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «lapillus» into 25 languages

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Trends of use of lapillus

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LAPILLUS»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about lapillus

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LAPILLUS»

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The Cultural Dynamics of Shell-Matrix Sites
e Ulva Cave assemblage is also idiosyncratic in the proportion of dogwhelk ( Nucella lapillus) shells (> per- cent). N. lapillus is present in very small quantities at An Corran (ca. . percent) and virtually absent from Raschoille Cave (. percent)  ...
Mirjana Roksandic, Sheila Mendonça de Souza, Sabine Eggers, 2014
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Oceanography and Marine Biology, An Annual Review
Nucella lapillus In the literature pertaining to the predation of barnacles this gastropod has been referred to as Purpura lapillus, Nucella lapillus and Thais lapillus. In order to avoid confusion the name Nucella lapillus is used in what follows.
Alan Ansell, R. N. Gibson, Margaret Barnes, 1999
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Organotin: Environmental Fate and Effects
Tributyltin in Scottish sea lochs, as indicated by degree of imposex in the dogwhelk, Nucella lapillus (L). Mar. Pollut. Bull., 18, 400-404. Feare, C.J. 1970a. Aspects of the ecology of an exposed shore population of dog whelks Nucella lapillus ...
Michael A. Champ, Peter F. Seligman, 1996
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Genetics and Evolution of Aquatic Organisms
Evolution, 35, 296-305. Bamock, C.R. and Cockayne, W.C. (1975) Chromosomal polymorphism in Nucella lapillus. Heredity, 34,231-45. Bantock, C.R. and Page, C.M. (1976) Chromosomal polymorphisms in the dog whelk (Nucella lapillus) ...
A. Beaumont, 1994
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Molecular Biomineralization: Aquatic Organisms Forming ...
Fish otolith is a kind of typical natural calcium carbonate biomineral, which is composed of a pair of lapillus, sagitta, and asteriscus, respectively, as shown in Fig. 6.2. Otoliths are involved in the perception of sound and the maintenance of  ...
W.E.G. Müller, 2011
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Illustrations of the Conchology of Great Britain and ...
3. CASSIDARIA obtusa. Cassidaria obtusa, Brown's MSS. Buccinum obtusissimum, Adams in Linn. Trans. iii. pi. 13, fig. 9, 10. — Mont. Test. Brit. p. 251 . Fig. 4. PURPURA lapillus. Purpura lapillus, Lam. Syst. vii. p. 244. Buccinum lapillus, Mont.
Thomas Brown, 1827
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An Inquiry Into the Ethnic Resolution of Mesolithic Regional ...
Potamides intermedius Potamides laevissimus (Schloth.) Purpura lapillus Tapes decussatus Triton Trivia europea or Turritella communis Unio Fossil shell indet. Freshwater shell indet. Marine shell indet. 1 There are two types of errors which ...
‎1990
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Metal Ecotoxicology Concepts and Applications
"2-m In the U.K., populations of N. lapillus are most heavily affected on shores along the south coast of England where there are large numbers of harbors and marinas. Most populations exhibit moderate to high RPS indices and the majority  ...
Michael C. Newman, Alan W. McIntosh, 1991
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Effects of Encapsulated Development and Larval Dispersal on ...
Marine prosobranch gastropods are an ideal group to use for these studies because of the broad range of developmental types they exhibit. Both the mud snail Ilyanassa obsoleta and the dog whelk Nucella lapillus deposit their eggs in  ...
Steven Untersee, 2007
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Geologic Evolution of the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South ...
Figure 10. Lapilli types. Scale bars in all photos are 0.5 mm long. A. Rounded lapillus containing chrome spinel-bearing (black squares) in olivine phenocrysts ( clear) replaced by quartz,. B, Mixed oxide-rich (dark) and oxide-poor (light) lapilli.
Donald R. Lowe, Gary R. Byerly, 1999

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LAPILLUS»

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The environmental genomics of metazoan thermal adaptation
... 2011) and the putative coding sequences of hsp68 and hsp70 in Nucella lapillus (Chu et al., 2014). In addition, given that heat shock protein ... «Nature.com, Mar 15»
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LBO France, Maple Knoll buy Paris office portfolio
Its real estate arm, through its funds White Stone and Lapillus, has completed €1.8bn worth of deals. “These acquisitions illustrate our ambition ... «Property Investor Europe, Sep 14»
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Snails already live in fear; now they've got climate change to worry …
The study focused on Nucella Lapillus, a marine snail that makes up the middle of the food chain. These middle species have to balance their ... «Grist, Jul 14»
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Hot and bothered: climate change and the ecology of fear
They found that when a prey species, in this case a snail called Nucella Lapillus, sensed the chemical cues of a predator, the invasive green ... «News@Northeastern, Jun 14»
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Indonesia: Sinabung death toll rises to 15, maximum alert for three …
The situation precipitated over the weekend, when the volcano activity intensified to the point of eruptions of thick layers of ash, lapillus and ... «AsiaNews.it, Feb 14»
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Fewer Female Snail Penises
Nucella lapillus, one of the species affected by TBT.WIKIMEDIA, MARTIN TALBOTThe scientists who first discovered imposex more than two ... «Scientist, Jan 14»
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Marine Biological Association - 125 years on
The worst affected was the dog whelk, Nucella lapillus, which was rapidly becoming unable to reproduce and in some areas had even become ... «Planet Earth, Aug 10»
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Snail shells increase dramatically in size in less than 100 years
The most striking finding, which has not been reported previously in Nucella lapillus, the Atlantic dogwhelk, is that shell length increased at all ... «TopNews, Mar 09»
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