| The stones are not bleached white but rather black and worn away to nubs, like an old man's really rotten teeth. |
| Billions of tiny wax-covered nubs on the surface ensure that dirt particles cannot cling to them and are simply washed away by drops of water dripping down the leaf. |
| I heard on the Discovery Channel that they have little bitty legs, like nubs. |
| They have nubs instead of legs, several are missing limbs all together, some have no eyes and three are joined like Siamese triplets. |
| All of the long tines that identify thorny oysters easily were gone, but a few nubs remained. |
| He did like the gloves with rubber nubs on the fingers, though. |
