CHARLES RIVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Charles River mean? 

• CHARLES RIVER (noun)
  The noun CHARLES RIVER has 1 sense:

1. a river in eastern Massachusetts that empties into Boston Harbor and that separates Cambridge from Boston

  Familiarity information: CHARLES RIVER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHARLES RIVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A river in eastern Massachusetts that empties into Boston Harbor and that separates Cambridge from Boston

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Charles; Charles River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Holonyms ("Charles River" is a part of...):

Bay State; MA; Mass.; Massachusetts; Old Colony (a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies)

 Context examples 

Charles River Laboratories currently disseminates gerbils for scientific research from stocks initially derived at Tumblebrook Farms (1995).

(Mongolian Gerbil, NCI Thesaurus)

A hairless Sprague-Dawley rat from the Charles River affiliate IFFA Credo (Labresle, France).

(OFA SD, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

Derived by Long and Evans (1915) by crossing female Wistar rats with a wild gray male, the Long-Evans rat was disseminated to Charles River from Canadian Breeding Farm and Laboratories (1978).

(LE, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

The Hartley guinea pig was imported from the Medical Research Council, Millhill, England, to Charles River in 1968 for propagation.

(Hartley Guinea Pig, NCI Thesaurus)

Derived from Buffalo stock of H. Morris to the NIH in 1950 and disseminated from Charles River since 1998, the Buffalo is a white albino rat, genotype c.

(BUF, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The mutation that spawned the Hartley Hairless Guinea Pig was then re-derived at Charles River to restore thymus function while maintaining hairlessness.

(Hartley Albino Hairless Guinea Pig, NCI Thesaurus)

Derived from the original group of Syrian hamsters captured by Dr. Israel Aharoni in 1930 and imported into the United States in 1938, followed by colony derivation at Lakeview in 1949 and 1951 and to Charles River in 1969, where the strain is propagated today.

(LVG Hamster, NCI Thesaurus)

Derived from Buffalo stock of H. Morris to the NIH in 1950 and disseminated from Charles River since 1998, the Buffalo is a white albino rat, genotype c. The incidence of spontaneous tumor formation includes anterior pituitary and adrenal cortex in upwards of 30% of aged rats.

(BUF, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)