The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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He once summoned Begley up to the house to work out the practicalities of keeping electric eels in the swimming pool to generate power.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
For centuries this landscape, shaped by ancient rivers, has been shared by ranchers and cattle, which learned to coexist with jaguars, panthers, anacondas, electric eels and crocodiles.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2024
Researchers from Nagoya University and Kyoto University in Japan learned this by placing zebrafish larvae in the same tank as electric eels, then dousing the tank in DNA that codes for a green fluorescent protein.
From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2023
In a recent study, a research group from Nagoya University in Japan found electric eels can release enough electricity to genetically modify small fish larvae.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2023
Here several species of turtles and alligators swarm in vast numbers; electric eels, too, abound in them, as well as many of the other curious water-creatures of that region.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston
