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kype

(kaɪp)
n
(Zoology) the hook on the lower jaw of a mature male salmon
[from Scot kip, kipp anything beaked or hooked; perhaps related to Low German kippe point, tip]
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As well as resolving the issue with Kype Muir, the mitigation may also have the potential to resolve issues with other future wind farm proposals, which can only be of benefit to Scotland's renewable energy sector."
Moor House began generating green electricity at the start of 2018, while Middle Muir is scheduled to go live later in the year and Kype Muir is due to follow early in 2019.
David Howells said: "Kype Tornado has always been a very good show calf producer and sired the 4,400gns Rhiwllech Euro, our previous best bull at sale at Brecon in May this year."
Elongation of the upper jaw, development of an angular tip or kype (sensu Gross 1984), and emergence of large caninelike teeth form the hooked snout, which appears to function as specialized weapon infighting (Darwin 1871; Gross 1984).
The projects are Kype Muir, Middle Muir and Moor House.
If a salmon has a kype then it's not a springer and must be returned.
Seventeen fish, 5 males and 12 females, exhibited distinctive spawning characteristics such as body and fin pigmentation in both sexes and lateral compression and a hooked kype in males (Fig.
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Differntiation and growth of kype skeletal tissues in anadromous male Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar).