Sentence examples for flattened body from inspiring English sources

The fish louse has a very distinctive oval-shaped, flattened body formed by a broad carapace.

It was only when the carriage on his Olivetti opened that he noticed the flattened body of an unfortunate lizard.

There are also dorsoventral muscle fibres running from the upper to the lower epidermis of the flattened body.

These observations suggest that the shortened, flattened, body response can be replaced by a psychoacoustically equivalent noise burst, as suggested for modeling piano soundboards.

This is confirmed by listening to shortened and spectrally flattened body responses which sound somewhere between a click and a noise burst.

In adaptation to marine life, true sea snakes have a flattened body with a short oarlike tail, valvular nostrils on top of the snout, and elongated lungs that extend the entire length of the body.

THEY'RE about one-eighth inch long, reddish brown in color, with oval, flattened bodies.

Their greatly flattened bodies are clearly an adaptation to bottom life; indeed, they bury themselves on the bottom, leaving only the eyes exposed.

Pleuronectiform (order Pleuronectiformes), also called flatfish, any one of about 680 species of bony fishes characterized by oval-shaped, flattened bodies as in the flounder, halibut, and turbot.

Hylids of the South American genus Hemiphractus live on the forest floor among leaf litter and have flattened bodies that enable them to blend well with dead leaves.

Flat bark beetle, (family Cucujidae), also called cucujid or flat grain beetle, any of approximately 500 species of beetles (insect order Coleoptera) that are red, yellow, or brown and easily recognized by their narrow, flattened bodies.