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However, most ducks and geese have spatulate bills, while our little friend had a long, pointed one.
The skull is clearly broader and more spatulate, as well as longer, than the skull of Loxomma.
I had never seen these spatulate fingers, until my first boyfriend on our first date reached over to hold my hand.
Setae type range from being thin and highly branched, forming dense tomenta, to being broad and spatulate.
Similarly, setae may be simple stalks with single spatulate tips, or they may be sparsely or profusely branched.
It is important to use the exact liquid-powder proportion and to mix and spatulate correctly.
Blade narrowly spatulate, thick, shiny, glabrous or quite glabrous, with shallowly serrated margins.
Leaves, cuneate, broadly cuneate, or spatulate in shape and highly variable in size, are arranged in whorls at the nodes of stems and branches.
Basal leaves stalked, lanceolate-narrowly spatulate, usually withered by flowering time.
The middle three digits flexed in the normal way and bore broad flat, spatulate claws.
Head: Male anterior pair of orbital setae modified into spatulate appendages, with a sharp apex to the spatulate section, which is black.
Related species in subgenus Ceratitis, such as C. malgassa, have blunt spatulate appendages with a white spatulate section.
The leaves are about 2 cm long, spatulate, stand upright and are covered with white tubercles.
The head of the male bears a pair of spatulate appendages which have sharp-pointed ends and the colour of the spatulate sections is black.
Plant eating dinosaurs generally have toes that are more spatulate.
Blade narrowly elliptic to spatulate, tapered tip, parallel-veined, with entire margins, dark green on top with large dark spots, grey-green on underside.
The leaf shape depends on the species, but is usually roughly obovate, spatulate, or linear.
For a moment he was sunk in thought, coiling and uncoiling his long spatulate fingers.
The first had broad, spatulate teeth, while the latter two had narrow, pencil-shaped teeth largely confined to the front parts of the jaws, especially in diplodocids.
The heathland is full of colourful heather and among the rocky patches you'll find the rare spotted-rock rose with spatulate fleawort hanging from the cliff tops, found nowhere else in the world.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The flower is composed of thirty-eight spatulate petals and fourteen sepals.
It was a characteristic hand, broad, with spatulate fingernails and a black star on the fleshy ball between forefinger and thumb.
Or sometimes the palm may be of one type, say spatulate, with all the fingers mixed.
They can be simple, bifid or divided several times, rond, spatulate, turbinate, lanceolate, ovoid, linear or of any intermediate forms.
In the Dinosaur Hadrosaurus they are exceedingly large and spatulate.
The petals are broad and spatulate and a bit thick, not opening wide.
He drummed his spatulate fingers on his desk, his eyes half closed.
You observe the spatulate finger-ends, Watson, which is common to both professions.
The teeth of all species of Smilisca are spatulate and bifid.
Humans are a land-dwelling species with a large body, grasping hands, spatulate fingers, and an upright gait.
Morpho physiological dormancy in seed of two North American and one Eurasian species of Sambucus with underdeveloped spatulate embyos.
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