Within 1 hr, the resulting spirally coiled, gelatinous spermatophore has been transferred to the female. |
|
Two grand staircases frame the 50m long ramp, sumptuously sculpted with coiled dragons, marking the imperial emblem. |
|
The ecological role and niche of coiled cephalopods can be studied by considering the common morphological characters of these fossils. |
|
Some of the spirals found in Nature include seashells, animal horns, coiled snakes and creeping vines, among other things. |
|
Instead the black-haired woman kept her gaze focused on him, coiled to act if anything dared threaten her. |
|
The fuzzy toy mouse houses a coiled measuring tape that expands to 60 inches. |
|
Most maiden spirits have complicated arched or mounded hairstyles adorned with coiled plaits and combs. |
|
Taxa within the group are variously unilocular or multilocular, spherical, tubular or uniserial, and coiled or uncoiled. |
|
The latter species has a smooth, valvatiform, dextrally coiled teleoconch and a sinistral, anastrophic protoconch. |
|
Because there, on the floor, like a coiled serpent, lies the cause of the problem. |
|
As he stepped back, his hand still outstretched, the serpent coiled around him and blended into his body. |
|
Long lines of cars, taxis and buses coiled around city blocks and suburban streets. |
|
Rossiter watched him, as lithe and graceful as ever, his slim form like a coiled spring and ready to explode with energy at any moment. |
|
There were pipe-like snakes coiled like springs, waiting patiently for a minnow to swim under their branch. |
|
Leave the stem on until it has coiled, then cut it back close to the base of the plant. |
|
The development of a coiled conch by only stochastic variation, or as a result of structural constraints alone, is considered highly improbable. |
|
In typical Level 3 geometries, the shell was tightly coiled, with an imperforate umbilicus. |
|
He was tense and coiled, and if looks could kill, she would already have been a pile of ash and dust. |
|
The male reproductive system contains four pairs of accessory glands, the most prominent of which are the tightly coiled spiral accessory glands. |
|
Cardboard strips can also be curved, folded in accordion fashion, and coiled for a wide variety of effects. |
|
|
The second is a flowing, serpentine face coiled around the unutterable disgrace of national decomposition and dissolution. |
|
As these charged particles swirl, they generate magnetic fields just the way electrons moving in an electromagnet's coiled wire do. |
|
Thus, the gerontic aperture of these dextrally coiled shells is situated on the left side in apertural view. |
|
Similar to all Porcellioidea, the shell axes of the dextrally coiled early shell and teleoconch are parallel. |
|
The cochlea is a coiled, hollow tube inside the inner ear that enables us to hear. |
|
Generally, there are large muscle scars, stout dental lamellae, closely coiled, outwardly pointed spiralia, and simple jugum. |
|
The decrease in the pitch value corresponds to an overwinding of the helices, but was still compatible with the observed pitches in coiled coil. |
|
The name conjures images of coiled rattlers ready to lash out with deadly fangs. |
|
But she was never to wear the Asase Ya costume, with its brilliantly patterned dashiki and the tall, coiled wig of black yarn. |
|
However, the initial whorl of these gastropods is unknown and therefore it is unknown whether it is tightly or openly coiled. |
|
Generally, soleniscid gastropods have smooth, orthostrophic early ontogenetic whorls and a tightly coiled initial whorl. |
|
One trick is to tightly wind the DNA around complexes of proteins called histones, much as thread is coiled around a spool. |
|
The vermetid worm shells have irregularly coiled or contorted shells which are attached to hard surfaces by their early whorls. |
|
People come to pick over the beach wrack for the coiled, weather-revealed shells. |
|
They evolved in the Devonian, comprising evolute to involute planispirally coiled conchs quite similar to that of the contemporaneous nautiloids. |
|
Three of the left-handed coiled collagen molecules form a right-handed coiled triple helix called tropocollagen. |
|
It was tethered to a slightly larger box in his front pocket by a length of coiled wire, like between a telephone and it's handset. |
|
Laid back and lanky, he invests the character with the tensile quality of a coiled spring and a panther-like sensuality that is striking. |
|
Her curly blond hair was coiled at the back of her head, held by hot pink metal pins. |
|
It seemed satisfied, at least for the moment, so I coiled the hose, shut up the garage, and went back indoors. |
|
|
They signify social status by items of adornment such as feather plumes and large coiled, copper necklaces and armlets. |
|
Then black smoke and heat coiled around him in a thick, suffocating cloud until he choked and woke to the world. |
|
Their sloping slate roofs peeked over Victorian chimneys almost smothered in the plumes of grey smoke which coiled ever upwards into the sky. |
|
Lia continued to twist the fork, watching as the spaghetti coiled then dropped back into the plate. |
|
Smoke like incense coiled from the corner of the room from the dried bunches of herbs he had found in Mary's cold store. |
|
Her silky dark hair had been plaited into ten different braids, and then coiled together on top of her head. |
|
Though you know what they say, that a cyclotron is just a linac coiled into a spiral. |
|
They were linked by a great length of rope modestly coiled at both ends of the row. |
|
He had a stout length of hempen rope coiled about one shoulder, and two large packs and my satchel were at his feet. |
|
There was a large serpent coiled about in an offensive manner and hissing ominously. |
|
These include colorful straw mats, tightly woven coiled baskets, wooden milk pots and bowls, and smoking pipes. |
|
Lines coiled on deck or loosely tied to railings do not meet that requirement. |
|
He quickly climbed up the steps and left it coiled in a heap at the head of the stairs. |
|
The rower drops the oar into the water coiled forward with his arms at full stretch. |
|
The docks were littered with greasy, untidily coiled hawsers, tools, cargo and refuse. |
|
During this period, the uterine glands become highly coiled and irregularly sacculated in the middle of the endometrium. |
|
When the trigger hair on the outside of a nematocyte is touched, a coiled thread tube inside the enclosed nematocyst is released. |
|
It happens to make great coiled steel mainsprings, too, so many airgun springs are made from it. |
|
The creeping mist coiled its tendrils round the spiky barbs like grasping fingers. |
|
As well as the common method of weaving baskets on a stake and strand principle, Jane also makes coiled, plaited, interlaced and frame baskets. |
|
|
He is, after all, talking into a heavy, black, old, Bakelite telephone handset, with a thick coiled cord leading into his pocket. |
|
A highly irritated western coachwhip snake was coiled in the grass. |
|
What had been coiled taut in anaerobic tension in Rage and Yoga has unstacked and stretched out in the sun here. |
|
The courtroom itself is surrounded by high cyclone fences, braided with coiled razor wire, and watched by heavily armed guards. |
|
Where citrus County felt like a coiled spring, the pace of A Million Heavens is sedate, diffused among a dozen or so characters. |
|
Like a Jack in the Box just sprung from coiled captivity, he begins rambling excitedly. |
|
Other models, such as string theory, propose more dimensions, but those are coiled up too small to be seen. |
|
The painting, packed mysteriously with a kind of coiled energy, is itself a little like a bomb about to go off. |
|
I looked up as he came closer, but Andreus coiled up the lash into a plaited leather loop and hit me across the back of the neck with it, forcing my eyes back down. |
|
In mammals, the lagena is coiled and is referred to as the cochlea. |
|
The joints had to be as strong and flexible as the pipes themselves, and able to stand the stress of being coiled with the pipes onto large drums. |
|
With each passing second his insides twisted and coiled like a snake. |
|
Many of the taxa that apparently diverged in the Paleozoic now are limpets and retain little information about the morphologies of their coiled ancestors. |
|
I'd anticipated him working inside a Back-To-The-Future kind of laboratory with bubbling beakers, coiled yellow electrical wire, and a suffocating sense of disarray. |
|
Soon afterwards, the bizarre, triangularly coiled, inflated Parawocklumeria and Wocklumeria appeared, representing the last burst of clymeniid diversification. |
|
During the chase Dirawong was bitten on the head by the snake who, when Dirawong had stopped to eat herbs, coiled itself around in the river and formed Snake Island. |
|
Poised in the twilight zone between the living and the nonliving, a virus is just a short strand of DNA or RNA coiled tightly inside a shell made of protein molecules. |
|
A coiled conch develops a closed umbilicus only when certain very limited conditions are fulfilled, thus permitting only very limited degrees of freedom. |
|
The faecal casts retained their original coiled form on the sediment surface for several days but then gradually collapsed into a featureless mound on the sediment surface. |
|
Both species described here are sinistrally coiled, but a similar pattern of ornamentation is present on two Pennsylvanian species that are dextrally coiled. |
|
|
According to Van Damme, the dog represents the uncircumcised boy, the feline is the circumcised individual, and the coiled snake is the male organ. |
|
A small blowpipe was clutched tightly in its hand, a slender wooden tube carved around with a coiled snake, its fangs curved around the departure hole of the darts. |
|
If your transplant was grown in a container and its roots have become coiled inside the pot, be sure to uncoil and gently spread the roots apart before planting. |
|
Within the septate group there are uniserial and coiled forms. |
|
Some snails, sea slugs, and worms embed embryos in gel, often in the form of thin strings or beautiful coiled ribbons that undulate gracefully in the current. |
|
Ammonoids are descendants of the extinct, primitive coiled nautiloids and they are extinct relatives of modern squid, octopus, cuttlefish, and nautilus. |
|
These very long, spiraled nascent bdellovibrio were proposed earlier from electron microscope images to be common in spirilla, which are long and coiled themselves. |
|
It was a freezing Chinese Spring Festival, and although the streets were largely empty and most of the shops shut, one sensed its coiled, irrepressible energy. |
|
In fibrous proteins, the coiled coil structures can be many heptads long. |
|
Most heteromorphs form a U-shaped chamber, whereas many normally coiled ammonites inflate or enlarge the terminal body chamber and constrict the aperture. |
|
The lyrics are tightly coiled tongue twisters, sprung with internal rhymes, questions and answers, parallels and comparisons that all add up, and rhyme. |
|
The authors solve this problem for isometrically coiled shells in a very elegant manner that takes advantage of the spiral curves' inherent geometry. |
|
The turn the shoulders must be the dominant move starting the downswing, because the shoulders were coiled much more than the hips and thus have the farthest to travel. |
|
He's ditched the Mother Bates outfit for jeans and a crewneck body-hugging sweater, but at over six feet of coiled spring intensity, he is still extremely prepossessing. |
|
The coiled copper bracelet on her forearm glinted in the fire light. |
|
Hammond also patented an electromechanical reverb device using the helical tortion of a coiled spring, widely copied in later electronic instruments. |
|
Unwind extension cables fully, as if left coiled up they can overheat, leading to electric shocks, and potentially firs. |
|
Start with a garden tour and demonstration of natural materials, then learn to make a coiled basket out of broom sedge. |
|
Most DNA molecules consist of two biopolymer strands coiled around each other to form a double helix. |
|
The Archimedean spiral looks like a coiled rope or the grooves on a vinyl record. |
|
|
Each sentence is like a viper, coiled in on itself and ready to bite. |
|
The output from a strip mill is coiled and, subsequently, used as the feed for a cold rolling mill or used directly by fabricators. |
|
A trampoline is a device consisting of a piece of taut, strong fabric stretched over a steel frame using many coiled springs. |
|
Meta leapt forward. In midair his lower half morphed, and suddenly he was one-half humanoid, one-half coiled spring. |
|
There the worm clings to the gills while it metamorphoses into a plump, sinusoidal, wormlike body, with a coiled mass of egg strings at the rear. |
|
In 1917, Burnie Lee Benbow was granted a patent for inventing the coiled coil filament. |
|
The god, in fine, of every savage tribe. And as he stood, a thrill of dread instinct, As from a serpent coiled, bechilled the whole Assembly. |
|
It comprised some 80 different pieces, using such things as tree bark, coiled wire, tintacks, and spot-welded metal to achieve the effects. |
|
Diaphragm and cervical cap A diaphragm is a dome of rubber with a coiled metal spring in its rim. |
|
In 1840, British scientist Warren de la Rue enclosed a coiled platinum filament in a vacuum tube and passed an electric current through it. |
|
The jaws of this type are operated by a coiled spring and the triggering mechanism is between the jaws, where the bait is held. |
|
The stories are splintered and refracted, the progressions coiled. |
|
The process of spermatogenesis takes place within the coiled seminiferous tubules, and continues from puberty to old age. |
|
In sharp contrast to the coiled steel mainspring, the gas spring's effort comes at a point in the barrel where you don't have much mechanical advantage. |
|
In this study, we investigated Physa acuta, a freshwater pulmonate with a sinistrally coiled shell, to determine its possible role as a biomarker. |
|
Our new acquaintance very deliberately coiled up the tube of his hookah and produced from behind a curtain a very long befrogged topcoat with astrakhan collar and cuffs. |
|
And that is exactly how long it took for an expectant nation, sitting agog and tightly coiled on the edge of their sofa, to slump back and reach for the doofer. |
|
Attached to the surface are coiled serpulid worm skeletons, muddy or chitinous tube worm casts up to 5 cm long, brittle starfish, and benthic foraminifera. |
|
By taste and not seeing he contemplated the cool invisible worm as it coiled onto his finger and smeared sharp, automatonlike and sweet, into his mouth. |
|
Post-knee region of telopodite coiled or spiralled proximally, becoming lamellate before narrowing distally into a long thin extension with a trifurcate ending. |
|
|
The advantage of the coiled coil is that evaporation of the tungsten filament is at the rate of a tungsten cylinder having a diameter equal to that of the coiled coil. |
|
She found her hands crushed under the coiled cords and she poked her fingers between two, watching them grow red and then purple as overripe vineberries. |
|
After all, a pill bug normally spends the sunlit hours when diurnal birds are about coiled away like a petite armadillo, often beneath some unpeckable tree stump or stone. |
|
Curl fiber cable assemblies overcome these issues, since when extending or bunding coiled fiber, customers do not have to concern with compromising the quality of the cable. |
|
The incense dough is then pressed into shaped forms to create cone and smaller coiled incense, or forced through a hydraulic press for solid stick incense. |
|
Multistranded wires are made of a varying number of stainless steel wire strands coaxially placed or coiled around each other in different configurations. |
|
Lines and halyards need to be coiled neatly for stowage and reuse. |
|