Sentence examples for Animal substances from inspiring English sources

The food of ants consists of both plant and animal substances.

He studied the colouring matters of leaves and flowers and the composition of animal substances.

In addition to algae, boghead coals may contain fish scales and other fossils, which show that animal substances contributed to the formation of these coals.

They build nests composed of varying amounts of plant and animal substances (such as leaves, moss, hair, feathers) held together and fastened to the cave wall with a mucilaginous secretion of the salivary glands.

Experiments with minerals, plants, and animal substances, inspired to some extent by Daoist dietetics and by the search for the elixir of life, resulted in the 52 chapters of pharmacopoeia called Bencaogangmu, or "Great Pharmacopoeia" (16th century).

It declared to be nuisances all places within the village kept, occupied, or used for the purpose of rendering offal or animal substances, when the same is or may be kept in such a manner as to occasion any offensive smell, and all places where any nauseous, unwholesome, or offensive business may be carried on, and it imposes penalties upon offenders.

(Quaestiones Disputatae De Anima 2) So Socrates, as a living animal substance, is not identical to his soul.

Objectual ideas are divided into singular (e.g., "God", "universe", "Aristotle", "my actual intuition of the pleasant fragrance of this rose", "even prime number") and general ("animal", "substance", "quantity").

Shells that are found on hills are in their natural state and having lost only their animal substance, now have a chalky appearance or, as it is said, are calcined; many conform to existing species or if their originals are missing, they nonetheless have strong affinities with known shells.

The medium is a completely serum and animal substance free product containing dimethylsulfoxide, anhydrous dextrose and a polymer as cryoprotectants.

Sometimes he caught the horses as they were startled from rest -- rearing or pivoting suddenly -- suggesting the dynamic tension between the animals' substance and their spirit.