Sentence examples for General proportions from inspiring English sources

Within some genera the taxonomy is very complex, relying on general proportions, behaviour, voice, and even parasites (feather lice).

The strongest fliers are the skuas and jaegers (Stercorariidae), which are gull-like in general proportions but with hooked bills.

The fossil is too fragmentary to be identified with certainty, but the roots of its teeth and its general proportions resemble those of later hominins.

Cats evolved as hunters that consume prey that contains high amounts of protein, moderate amounts of fat, and a minimal amount of carbohydrates, and their diet still requires these general proportions today.

The general proportions of water to cornmeal are 5 to 1 for soft polenta (best in a bowl topped with butter and Parmesan) and 4 to 1 for firm (best for grilling, baking or frying).

2. Fitness is the adjustment of size of the several parts to their several uses, and required due regard to the general proportions of the fabric: it arises out of dimension (quantitas), which the Greeks call ποσότης.

In terms of the general proportion, structure and shape, we're pretty close.

LBG charged the federal government these rates on "cost plus" contracts, which enabled contractors to pass on their overhead costs to the agency in general proportion to how much labor LBG devoted to the government contracts.

The limits and interrelationships of galliform families have been determined on the basis of general body proportions, muscle and bone configurations, plumage, clutch size and egg characteristics, the appearance of the young, and some aspects of behaviour.

In general, the proportions of H and M variants were more than 40%and20%0%, respectively.

To eschew the use of color categories we decided to try to estimate the general ancestry proportions of the different regional samples independent of color categories.