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
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
He surveyed Mexican deer, American crocodiles, Indian pythons, spiny dogfish, electric eels, armadillos and hundreds of other animals.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 2, 2022
They proved to be those of electric eels; and it now occurred to me that the round holes were made by these animals working constantly round and round in the moist, muddy soil.
From Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers by Thomas Bulfinch
