Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of the family Acipenseridæ, including all the ordinary sturgeons (and with the shovel-nosed sturgeons, Scaphirhynchops, the only other genus, composing the family), characterized by the flattened tapering snout, a spiracle over each eye, and 5 distinct rows of bony plates.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun (Zoöl.) A genus of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons, having the body armed with bony scales, and the mouth on the under side of the head. See
sturgeon .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thesubfamily Acipenserinae —ganoid fishes, including thesturgeons , having the body armed with bonyscales , and the mouth on the under side of the head.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun type genus of the Acipenseridae: sturgeons
Etymologies
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Examples
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Acipenser is telling me that science has demonstrated that pertial birth abortion IS IMMORAL!
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Acipenser is saying that the rational and logical evaluation of the evidence through disciplined and skillful conceptualization IS SCIENCE.
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Now Acipenser is telling me that I have just done science.
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Acipenser: Critical thinking is science when conducted properly.
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Acipenser: I don't see the path that chunkdz is taking to separate critical thinking and scientific thinking in this example.
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I could talk about the Delmarva Fox Squirrel (Acipenser brevirostrum) or even the Bog Turtle (Clemmys muhlenbergii); instead I want to focus on the Eastern Shore Commercial Fisherman (Piscator orientali litore).
Gary Liberson, PhD: Is It Worth Cleaning the Chesapeake If There Are No More Watermen?
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I could talk about the Delmarva Fox Squirrel (Acipenser brevirostrum) or even the Bog Turtle (Clemmys muhlenbergii); instead I want to focus on the Eastern Shore Commercial Fisherman (Piscator orientali litore).
Gary Liberson, PhD: Is It Worth Cleaning the Chesapeake If There Are No More Watermen?
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Acipenser, a hypothesis is an answer (a tentative one), not a question.
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If you look at the steps you've taken you have conducted a scientific investigation to a degree but appear to have lapsed into non-critical thinking in some areas, i.e., wishful thinking that you can actually put yourself into a unborn's shoes. chunkdz: Acipenser, Critical Thinking is less a methodology and more a skill.
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Acipenser: IDers can't even provide the validation for the methods they propose to be used in design detection let alone even begin to test for design.
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