This may have served the purpose of camouflage, making the animal more inconspicuous. |
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The leaflets are ovate to lanceolate, sometimes hastate, and are subtended by inconspicuous stipels. |
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Although microfilaments were inconspicuous in these cells, perinuclear bundles of intermediate filaments were evident. |
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Try an inconspicuous place like a hem or facing if you don't have extra fabric. |
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They had clearly tried to be inconspicuous, arriving in an unmarked white van with the legend Bell Mate Coffee. |
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The young man drove until he reached an inconspicuous building near the center of the town. |
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When I start a temp job I try and remain inconspicuous, keeping quiet in the corner and not drawing too much attention to myself. |
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An inconspicuous, soft-spoken man, Bruckheimer contradicts the stereotype of the high-powered Hollywood executive. |
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Less than eight inches tall, the annuals are inconspicuous, and were growing in a balding area between full chaparral and non-native grassland. |
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The instances are inconspicuous, but do make for a slight forcing of the effect towards hyperbole. |
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In order to be inconspicuous and not arouse the attention of any Socialists, I've asked you to attend in disguise this month. |
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When they are raising young or robbing nests, they are very quiet and inconspicuous. |
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The security tag, which is usually inconspicuous, is removed by the showroom wardens only prior to delivery. |
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It is imperative to have a foot patrol which is a very efficient way of controlling inconspicuous poaching activities. |
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Like its grifter characters, it's only as flashy as it needs to be and knows the value of being inconspicuous. |
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Even on reefs, most species of host actinians are inconspicuous, unlike their partner fish. |
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It is wind-born pollen from plants that have inconspicuous flowers like wild grasses or ragweed that are the major causes of respiratory allergy. |
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I cut my akebia almost to the ground and, thinking I had killed it, I dug it up and moved it to an inconspicuous place. |
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With its small garden courtyard, the club looked, from the outside, more like an inconspicuous Renaissance home than a den of dance iniquity. |
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When they are raising young or robbing nests, Steller's Jays become very quiet and inconspicuous. |
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For 170 years Ballina's Augustinian Abbey has lain derelict and inconspicuous at the bottom of Ardnaree near St Muredach's Cathedral. |
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Flowers in both species are apetalous, with short, inconspicuous calyx lobes and no nectaries. |
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These inconspicuous larvae cling to the stalk of the plant and can easily go unnoticed. |
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Although a relatively inconspicuous component of the modern flora, the lycopsids were arborescent ecosystem dominants in the late Paleozoic. |
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As long as a pupil is quiet, inconspicuous and conformist, everything is fine. |
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Many inconspicuous moves to subordinate independent delegacies to Council have slipped through. |
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Are you looking for social activities that don't involve drinking or are you trying to be an inconspicuous teetotaler? |
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To fragrance your kitchen cabinets and drawers, place a good scent dabbed on a cotton ball into an inconspicuous comer. |
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In order to be inconspicuous, many followers of such religions meet in private. |
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Their inconspicuous nature, relatively small numbers, and irruptive behavior make it difficult to monitor the population. |
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The neoplastic epithelial cells were cuboidal and had round or oval nuclei and inconspicuous nucleoli. |
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If they really wanted us to be inconspicuous why don't they have us wear all black like the set changers at the theater? |
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With his Teutonic bearing, marcelled hair and guttural, buzzsaw voice the former US official would have trouble being inconspicuous. |
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As for her dirty top and messy hair, there would not be anything inconspicuous about that. |
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You get to observe so much when you are travelling through random towns as an inconspicuous anonymous nobody. |
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A inconspicuous black town car will come pick you up at your hotel in Paris and drive you to the secret location. |
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As with any addiction the more one uses, the more one needs to get off, and my doing these inconspicuous plays was just not doing the trick. |
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To top it all, heads of civic organisations were shunted out to inconspicuous postings when major projects were in crucial stages. |
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In the end, I skived off to a side street and made myself as inconspicuous as possible so I could get up to date. |
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The things that affect the viewer most are often inconspicuous, undramatic. |
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The way on from here was a slither down an inconspicuous and rather grotty looking muddy hole. |
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His inconspicuousness depressed him and his depression made him even more inconspicuous. |
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Butterwort is a relatively inconspicuous plant, which makes its home on wet heaths, bogs and mountain ledges. |
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It's hard to be inconspicuous when you are driving a car that advertises your recent nuptials. |
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But the easy music and inconspicuous action is made jarring by the fact that the man is naked. |
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The jumping bristletails are an inconspicuous group, looking much like their better-known cousins, the silverfish. |
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Be sure to test in an inconspicuous area prior to use, to ensure that the fabric is color fast. |
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Remember peroxide is bleach so test an inconspicuous spot first for color fastness. |
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They had several hairpins in their hair, inconspicuous objects, which they would use to pick the easier locks. |
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Sitting towards the back of the hall was an inconspicuous, balding, bespectacled man with a slight stammer. |
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She tried to remain as inconspicuous as possible so that no one would see her there. |
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The bathroom is easily scented by placing oil-scented cotton balls in inconspicuous places, or sprinkle oils directly onto silk or dried flower arrangements or wreaths. |
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That's why they drive inconspicuous foreign sports cars at high speeds while drunk on malt liquor, taking down telephone poles and innocent children by accident. |
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On Costa Rica Street, in Palermo Soho, there is an inconspicuous black gate. |
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But Kate is nice and quiet and inconspicuous, whereas Chelsy is loud and brash and stands out. |
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The piece begins with a wooden barn door pierced with two inconspicuous peepholes. |
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They have unisexual flowers, are wind-pollinated, and apparently have a very short and inconspicuous flowering time so that the presence of flowers is easily overlooked. |
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Trying to be inconspicuous, for reasons unbeknownst to her, she looked past Shamus to the writing all over his walls, trying to read the words bordering them. |
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Some are dressed in inconspicuous street clothes, others wear black balaclavas and are armed with truncheons, while one is wearing a uniform and a police helmet. |
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Place small dishes of the bait in inconspicuous spots around the home. |
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Zela was disguised in an inconspicuous cloak as she entered the castle. |
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Flowers are inconspicuous, but the long, pea-like pods develop in the late summer and persist into late autumn, sometimes dangling from the branches into early winter. |
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Were white rhinestone suits the most inconspicuous garments to wear? |
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She wanted an inconspicuous house close to Dublin city centre. |
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He was ferreting around for his cash when one of them allegedly spotted a bobby on patrol, and as he made himself look inconspicuous they swapped the laptop case for another. |
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The first step in pre-radicalization touches the rather non-religious, inconspicuous aspirant, who is open to new things. |
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Approaching danger, whether from octopus, fish or man, arouses caution in a small mollusk and it becomes as inconspicuous as it can. |
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The toad is an inconspicuous animal as it usually lies hidden during the day. |
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An inconspicuous rock mound marks the reburial site where close to 80 boxes of various sizes are buried. |
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Antennae are present on either side of the labrum, but small and relatively inconspicuous. |
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Before its catastrophic eruption of 1991, Pinatubo was an inconspicuous volcano, unknown to most people in the surrounding areas. |
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The inconspicuous thallus and numerous small, plane, deep reddish orange apothecia with concolorous margins are characteristic. |
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Internodal tracheary elements, by contrast, have relatively large circular pits with inconspicuous borders. |
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Although often inconspicuous, fungi occur in every environment on Earth and play very important roles in most ecosystems. |
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Plastic explosives are difficult to detect because a bomb maker can mold them into concealable or inconspicuous objects. |
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Carapace poorly emarginated anteriorly and carinae macrosculpture inconspicuous. |
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Apical tergites with a few very inconspicuous setae inserted in shallow punctures. |
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Presternum with 1 or 2 inconspicuous setulae on each half of sclerite. |
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The ladies version has a drop seat with an inconspicuous zip opening. |
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The ladies version includes the drop seat facility with inconspicuous side fastening zip openings whilst the male version comes with chest hand warmer pockets. |
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The traveller was in Erewhonian clothes to keep him inconspicuous, a conical felt hat with owl feather, yellow tabard, tasselled perizoma, belled sandals, and umbrella. |
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Abundant worldwide, most fungi are inconspicuous because of the small size of their structures, and their cryptic lifestyles in soil or on dead matter. |
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It spends the day concealed in a lair that it has hollowed out under foliage or beneath a root or a stone where its colouring makes it inconspicuous. |
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The tails of the large falcons are quite uniformly dark gray with inconspicuous black banding and small, white tips, though this is probably plesiomorphic. |
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Hypnotized, my eyes stared at the small bulge made by that book inside the pocket, they gazed fierily at that one inconspicuous spot as if to burn a hole in the coat. |
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Wrens are small and inconspicuous birds, except for their loud songs. |
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In addition, the inflorescences emerge in May to June as the basal leaves wither, making the plants somewhat inconspicuous to the casual observer. |
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