Sentence examples for compact mass from inspiring English sources
Eventually these cells fill the blastocoel and form a compact mass of endoderm.
In a few mammals (e.g., opossum), the prostate is not a compact mass but a partly diffuse gland.
Except for the single flower in the small bud vase, the most popular style of Victorian arrangement was a tightly compact mass of flowers, greens, grasses, and ferns.
The polypide degenerates periodically during the lifetime of a zooid, and a compact mass, called a brown body, frequently remains in its place.
Given a chance, they'll form a compact mass on the sides and base of the processor, so you'll need to keep stopping the machine and scraping the contents back into play.
The particular circumstances of the burial of Herculaneum, unlike those of Pompeii, led to the formation over the city of a compact mass of tufaceous material about 50 to 60 feet (15 to 18 metres) deep.
Some compact mass-market cameras take circular disks of film, 65 millimetres in diameter, in light-tight cartridges and coated on a 0.18-mm polyester base.
Phosphorite, also called Phosphate Rock, rock with a high concentration of phosphates in nodular or compact masses.
It may be microscopic in size or developed into visible structures, such as brackets, mushrooms, puffballs, rhizomorphs (long strands of hyphae cemented together), sclerotia (hard, compact masses), stinkhorns, toadstools, and truffles.
The fibres are fine and silky and possess appreciable tensile strength; those that occur in thin, felted sheets of interwoven fibres are called mountain leather; in thicker sheets, mountain cork; and in compact masses resembling dry wood, mountain wood.
Two basic kinds of pollinia exist: one has soft, mealy packets bound together to a viscin core by viscin threads and is called sectile; the other kind ranges from soft, mealy pollinia, through more compact masses, to hard, waxlike pollinia; the latter usually have some mealy pollen with viscin strands that attach the pollinia to each other or to a viscidium.
