| At Ingolstadt, the branchlike ribs are disjunctively representational, carved with protruding nubs or twigs signaling their botanical nature. |
| All of the long tines that identify thorny oysters easily were gone, but a few nubs remained. |
| The stones are not bleached white but rather black and worn away to nubs, like an old man's really rotten teeth. |
| I heard on the Discovery Channel that they have little bitty legs, like nubs. |
| His ideal table has many functions, and several nubs of cork inlaid for pinning. |
| They have nubs instead of legs, several are missing limbs all together, some have no eyes and three are joined like Siamese triplets. |
