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Their abdomens are variable in shape being triangular, round to ovoid to elongate, sometimes extending tail-like past the spinnerets.
The anapsids start out with elongate jaws and rostra, but the entire muzzle becomes progressively shorter across their phylospace.
These include the presence of true, elongate furcal rami bearing spines in Perspicaris.
One of the most prominent characteristics of early vertebrates is the elongate caudal fin bearing fin rays.
Laid lengthwise, they will appear to elongate the area they cover, whereas laid widthwise, they widen it.
The microdesmids, or wormfishes, are elongate gobioid fishes that live in shallow waters of tropical and subtropical seas.
The behavior is presumably similar to the anguilliform swimming of eels and elongate salamanders.
Adults of some Dolichopodinae have elongate mouthparts and are known to be anthophilous and feed on nectar.
Most zircons are sharp-faceted, euhedral and elongate prisms, and minor amounts are transparent, pale brown, anhedral and rounded crystals.
Low-grade volcanic and sedimentary rocks are widely exposed within this elongate anticlinal window.
Hornblende forms elongate prisms that define a lineation together with plagioclase.
When the winter has been mild like this year, the flower stalk will elongate in early March.
The species possesses paired, elongate lateral spines that function in saltatory sweeping motions in response to sheer disturbances by predators.
At far right, Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum, an elongate bacillus form.
Small stones step cut in an elongate rectangular shape are known as baguettes.
The elongate head of the marsh treader also differs from the relatively short head of the water scorpion.
The phloem of some stems also contains thick-walled, elongate fiber cells which are called bast fibers.
This structure is more readily explained as an elongate, gently tapering body fossil, than as a trace fossil.
Their elongate mouth and strong jaws held rows of pointed conical teeth, similar in shape to those of modern toothed whales.
Reach forward to elongate the spine, then reach toward the front shin and rest hand here or on the floor, if possible.
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The silk-glands whose ducts open on this spinneret are paired convoluted tubes lying alongside the elongate cylindrical stomach.
Also, used to elongate the mast of any boat by stepping it in a tabernacle.
The papilla continues to elongate and the cryptogam to increase, until finally it invades nearly the entire length of the papilla.
The frontoparietal is elongate, smooth, and bears a small supraorbital process on the anterior edge of the orbit.
The frontoparietal is elongate, without a pronounced anterior supraorbital process.
Cells elongate, external side nearly straight, vibraculum sublateral, very prominent.
The glands of Lieberkhn elongate, the number of acini increases, and the contained cells multiply.
The scales do not elongate as in the pear, but the flower-buds are mixed.
The body is elongate and shark-like, and has a long saw-like snout.
Juxta elongate, longer than tegumen, slightly dilated distally, triangularly acute at latero-apical corners.
The macronucleus is spherical, elongate, band-formed or horseshoe-shaped.
Body elongate, covered with small cycloid scales situated at right angles along oblique dermal plicae below lateral line.
Form changeable, from short, sac-like to elongate and vermiform.
He wore it a little backwards, and its effect was greatly to elongate the face and to bring out the distance between the eyes and the moustache.
The body of the incus is round and the short process is elongate.
The aedeagus of both species comprises two endosomal spicules, with the ventral endosomal spicule greatly elongate and whiplike.
Some of the species are simple, elongate and clavate bodies.
Their ellipses elongate and flatten again to the semblance of circles.
And Johnnie's weight was not enough to elongate its set curves.
Levi Pope's face seemed to elongate as he contemplated Ford's question.
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