Sentence examples similar to apex of a shell from inspiring English sources

It then seals off an air pocket in the top, or apex, of the shell using a second webbed pair of tentacles.

Its surface markings include fine costae (i.e., lines that radiate from the narrow apex of the shell to the distal, or terminal, margins) and arcuate (bowlike) growth lines.

The shell has a distinctive teardrop shape and is ornamented with a concentric pattern of ribs; the apex of one valve (shell half) is often curved over the other.

In one species, Libera fratercula, the young gnaw their way out through the apex of the maternal shell.

The apex of the cephalopod shell represents the earliest growth stages.

I've come out of a shell.

Some kind of a shell".

This is the very apex of a moneyed culture.

Organizationally, the Führer stood at the apex of a hierarchy.

He is at the apex of a federation whose very existence is in question.

Buttigieg represents the apex of a kind of "politics of demographics".