Sentence examples for be close relatives of from inspiring English sources
They are considered to be close relatives of arthropods (e.g., insects, crustaceans).
The directors also cannot be close relatives of any top managers.
Other African rodents proved to be close relatives of African spiny mice and were also reclassified in this subfamily; these are Rudd's mouse (Uranomys ruddi), the Congo forest mouse (Deomys ferrugineus), and brush-furred rats (genus Lophuromys).
The eggs are thought to be from dissorophoids because they are likely to be close relatives of modern amphibians, and probably had similar reproductive strategies.
Paleontologists defined a group called lobopods to include animals that are thought to be close relatives of arthropods but lack jointed limbs.
The elongated eerily bewitching women in surrealist painter Troy Brooks' The B-Girls show look as though they could be close relatives of that scowling food critic from Ratatouille.
They are close relatives of sea urchins and heart urchins.
Some of them are close relatives of the president; Mr. Erdimi is Mr. Déby's nephew.
Despite their unusual appearance and behaviour, they are close relatives of sheep and true goats.
They are close relatives of skunks and their name translates as "glutton" in French.
The rockets that carry space-bound payloads are close relatives of the intercontinental missiles that carry enemy-bound warheads.
