Sentence examples for claw called from inspiring English sources

The driver, called a musher, can use a foot brake that digs into the snow with claws to slow the team and a pronged metal claw, called a snow hook, to temporarily keep a team stationary.

They might not seem too scary but late at night on a quiet beach, one can hear the mysterious chorus of the ghost crab a sound produced by ridges on the inside of their larger claw called stridulation.

All birds of prey have hook-tipped beaks and sharp curved claws called talons (in nonpredatory vultures the talons are present but atrophied).

But rather than hands, they still have lobster-like claws called prehensors; the dexterity and freedom of movement of the human hand has been impossible to maintain under the enormous pressures of the deep.

The presence of pincerlike claws called chelae means that they should be grouped with spiders, scorpions, and horseshoe crabs, all of which possess the distinctive feature.

Near the head is also located a pair of modified legs with sharp claws called forcipules.

The claw is called a receptor and the protein it binds to on the cancer cell, the target, is called an antigen.

Claw, also called Talon, narrow, arched structure that curves downward from the end of a digit in birds, reptiles, many mammals, and some amphibians.

Clam shrimp, also called claw shrimp, any member of the crustacean order Conchostraca (subclass Branchiopoda), a group of about 200 species inhabiting shallow freshwater lakes, ponds, and temporary pools throughout the world.

The new spontaneous mutation, called claw paw (clp) caused PNS hypomyelination without affecting central myelin (Henry et al., 1991).

By analogy, the appendages of other lower animals are frequently called claws.