What is "long-lived"

Usage examples of "long-lived".

A dozen cistrons may be so close to each other on a chromosome that for our purposes they constitute a single long-lived genetic unit.

A study of these long-lived families from another point of view will reveal that heredity is the primary factor and that good environment, euthenics, is the secondary one.

The protonema is usually filamentous, and in some of the simplest forms is long-lived, while the small plants borne on it serve mainly to protect the sexual organs and sporogonia.

An all-inclusive divine archetype, Hina appeared in many Polynesian legends, some of which-not surprisingly, for such a complex and long-lived goddess-contradicted others.

Time and time again, Lyons came up with microscope slides which, he said, proved that the long-lived rotifers were at least triploid-three labeled chromosomes per body-cell instead of two-and maybe even tetraploid.

Marriage of representatives of two long-lived strains ensures that the offspring will inherit more longevity than does the ordinary man.

Who can say which of the carked races of man - the Elf-men of Anya and the Hoshi, the Newvanian Arhats and all the others - have attained to the godly, and which are extremely long-lived women and men wearing bizarre and sometimes beautiful bodies?

Who can say which of the carked races of man-the Elf-men of Anya and the Hoshi, the Newvanian Arhats and all the others-have attained to the godly, and which are extremely long-lived women and men wearing bizarre and sometimes beautiful bodies?

Art--supposedly long-lived, in relation to the fleetingness of Time--yields to the clamour for reappraisal, along with everything else.

Pearson and his associates have shown that there is a tendency to assortative mating for longevity: that people from long-lived stocks actually do marry people from similar stocks, more frequently than would be the case if the matings were at random.

Moorish ninnies is that there have been three Archbishops Harold di York, all long-lived and talented men, in the course of the last century and a half.

If we could love and hate with as good heart as the faeries do, we might grow to be long-lived like them.

Such relationships are fairly common across Paratime, with the temporal portals between two such lines stable, long-lived affairs.

One rarely asked Theks a question involving time since the long-lived silicon life-form counted in sidereal years of their planet of origin, which generally amounted to centuries of more ephemeral species -- such as Kai's.

Major Boyette himself had no recollection of the process that had rendered him so monstrous and–if one were to believe him–so long-lived.