Sentence examples for although not closely from inspiring English sources
Scaly-tailed squirrels and flying squirrels, although not closely related, can both glide from tree to tree using parachute-like membranes that stretch from the fore-limbs to the hind-limbs.
Although not closely related, these insects share a marked flexibility in food acquisition behaviors.
Mantis shrimps, although not closely related, provide a further functional comparison.
The use of suspension cultured plant cells as a simplified approach, although not closely mimicking the natural situation, offers several advantages in the dissection of complex cellular responses at a molecular level.
Although not closely evolutionarily related, the proteins belonging to Clades 3 and 6 have modified their catalytic domains, replacing the glutamic acid of the "HYE" catalytic triad with various other amino acids.
Moreover, the bounds on (n(K)) and (n chi(K))), although not tight, reflects closely that between (n(K)) and (n chi (K))) and can therefore be used as a good proxy to decide whether applying the simplicial reduction χ is appropriate or not.
A quick run through the internet: I discovered that the tulip tree, Liriodendron, is sometimes called the 'tulip poplar' although it's not closely related to the true poplar (and not even remotely related to the tulip).
Our approximate model reproduces these observations well, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, although it does not closely fit the observations in Fig. 4, which is attributed to spatial and temporal oversmoothing for small events.
Other artiodactyls include camels, cattle, deer and pigs, although hippopotamuses are not closely related to these groups.
When European explorers discovered what are today known as penguins in the Southern Hemisphere, they noticed their similar appearance to the great auk and named them after this bird, although they are not closely related.
Some of their primitive characteristics include a skeleton composed primarily of cartilage, and a deeply forked heterocercal caudal fin similar to that of sharks, although they are not closely related.
