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Patuxent

Patuxent

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A navy air base in Maryland where pilots and engineers test aircraft
  • proper noun
  • /pəˈtʌksənt/
: Patuxent
  • Close collaboration between BARC and Patuxent researchers continues today.
  • Patuxent Research Center
  • Patuxent Research
  • Patuxent Wildlife

Examples

  • By 1968, the world's whooping cranes had dwindled to one flock of 48 in a Texas marsh, plus a handful at Patuxent.

    Academic text (2003)
  • Ask him if he can get a plane to meet us at Patuxent.

  • Flotilla, by Donald Shomette, tells the story of the Patuxent naval campaign.

    Blog text (14)
  • Patuxent Naval Air Station.

  • Dan Sprague, a flight instructor at the Patuxent Research Center, has been conditioning the birds to treat the noisy aircraft like another bird.

    Academic text (2001)
  • The Patuxent Wildlife Research Center comprises 12,800 acres next to BARC's approximately 7,000.

    Academic text (2003)
  • The new group will serve as an insurance policy in case something happens to the other flock, says Jay Hestbeck, chief of research at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Maryland.

    Academic text (2001)
  • George Gee, a physiologist at Patuxent, tapped the expertise of Tom Sexton, an ARS poultry researcher, to save the cranes' gene pool.

    Academic text (2003)
  • PHOTO (COLOR): ARS-developed techniques for turkey semen (shown above) have been used at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center to increase populations of endangered species such as the bald eagle and whooping crane.

    Academic text (2003)
  • The new fighter jets were developed and tested at the Patuxent Naval Air Station in Maryland.

Surface Forms

Patuxent main

Etymology

Patuxent is the name of the naval air station because it comes from the nearby Patuxent River, a name taken from a local Native American language that referred to the 'river' and the land beside it. So the base is called Patuxent because it is by that river and linked to that place.