n na nb nc nd ne nf ng nh ni nj nk nl nm nn no np nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny

Перевод: nuptial

[прилагательное]
брачный; свадебный;
[существительное]
свадьба

Тезаурус:

1. The midwife toad came to public notice when, in the early years of this century, the Austrian biologist Paul Kammerer announced that he had persuaded the toads to breed once more in water and that, as a consequence of this, they had re-evolved nuptial pads.
2. The implication is that males need maintain high levels of vigilance only when in nuptial plumage.
3. The eggs had all died before hatching, and Boulenger was led to question whether Kammerer had ever managed to get eggs to hatch at all, let alone re-evolve nuptial pads in adults.
4. Noble had been allowed to dissect the last of Kammerer's nuptial pad specimens (the rest had been destroyed some years earlier in a fire).
5. The third hypothesis - the sexual selection or "Gary Glitter" hypothesis - suggests that the brighter, more conspicuous nuptial plumage of the breeding male makes him more attractive to both females and predators.
6. The centre piece of the act is the onymous toad, unique among the frogs and toads because it has lost the horny pads (the so-called nuptial pads) that grow on the male's hands during the breeding season and because it mates on dry land rather than in water.
7. However, during June and July they undergo a transition from their bright nuptial colours to a dull, camouflage "eclipse" plumage in which they resemble the female.
8. Prefaced by an "urgent remonstrance" to the gentlemen of England, warning them that the young Queen Victoria's announcement of her intention to marry Prince Albert may lead to great numbers of her female subjects taking a similar nuptial initiative owing to Leap Year of 1840 (traditionally a woman could make a proposal of marriage only in a leap year).
9. Loss of the nuptial pads is usually assumed to be a consequence of mating on land because, in other frogs and toads, their function appears to be to help the male to grip onto the female's slippery back while mating in water.
10. Cotingas, including the dazzling orange and black cocks-of-the-rock, employ some startling nuptial and aggression displays.
11. These males are still in their bright nuptial plumage and as long as they retain it they maintain the high levels of vigilance observed when accompanying their females.
12. I think you might do better to live with him for a while, before you actually tie the nuptial knot with someone who may be borrowing your knickers for the next 60 years.
13. The bride and groom returned together to the front seat for the nuptial Mass.