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guinea

[ US /ˈɡɪni/ ]
[ UK /ɡˈɪni/ ]
NOUN
  1. a west African bird having dark plumage mottled with white; native to Africa but raised for food in many parts of the world
  2. a former British gold coin worth 21 shillings

How To Use guinea In A Sentence

  • The Girl relucted a little, upon which he gave her 3 Guineas, and wished he might be damned if he did not have her in 3 months. John Adams diary 1, 18 November 1755 - 29 August 1756
  • Alaric got a bit annoyed at how long we took to leave becuase of the guinea pigs - I didn't know weather to be sympathetic or laugh when he got narky about it :/ Snell-Pym » Guinea Pigs!
  • According to Hughes, Olsen became an addition to the stable when Komon sold one of his works for the previously unheard-of price of 1000 guineas.
  • Although the APMV-5 HN protein has neuraminidase activity, it neither hemagglutinated nor hemadsorbed RBCs of chickens, turkeys, guinea pigs, horses, or human O-group, either at 37°C or at 4°C. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Birds of paradise (Paradisaeidae) and bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchidae): regional levels of biodiversity and terrane tectonics in New Guinea. Archive 2006-03-01
  • Donald, a Macgregor's bowerbird, lives in the dark woods of the Adelbert Range of Papua New Guinea. Here, atop a mossy platform and around a young sapling, he has woven his spire of sticks and twigs.
  • The pet shop clerk had been helpful, showing him an assortment of mice and guinea pigs and even a pair of canaries, but in the end, Enoch had settled on the brown-and-white hamster.
  • The principal range in German New Guinea is the Bismarck Mountains (variously estimated between 14,000 and 16,000 feet, in height). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
  • 'I'll run to them immediately,' cried she, 'for my half guinea is in an agony to be gone!' Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
  • In a study of guinea pigs, oral administration of diiodotyrosine prevented alterations in thyroid and pituitary function induced by ovariectomy.
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