Sentence examples for like plumage from inspiring English sources

A flock of citrus, peels curled like plumage, perches on its glass.

He looks like no one else, acts like no one else, his clothes are increasingly like plumage, late at night he choreographs using plastic Army men, he fits no mold and has no friends, but I believe in my heart that someday something beautiful may come from him.

For the junco, smell was a stronger driver of mate choice than visual cues like plumage or body size.

If the behavior is passed on to offspring whereby female peacocks make such decisions based on a proxy like plumage, there will be positive selection for more elaborate plumage.

Bebe bodysuit, Christian Dior garter belt, Hilary Olson stockings, Zumi Rosow jewelry COLOR From the mid-1300s to around 1550, stockings, or "nether-stocks," were flaunted on men's bodies like plumage on beautiful birds.

Impossibly sharply-dressed guppies, perfectly coifed young women who looked like they'd stepped out of a clothing catalogue, the dignified middle-aged European men you see everywhere in the city, clothing designers wearing their own products like plumage, and of course, a couple resplendent drag queens.

Among the most famous victims of this is the great auk, a now-extinct North Atlantic bird with a penguin's tuxedo-like plumage and ungainly waddle (but not much of its DNA – auks are only distantly related to their Southern Hemisphere cousins).

If a cuckoo with slightly hawk-like plumage caused hosts to delay or avoid an attack in the past, this would have favoured the evolution of hawk mimicry.It is an arms race and a matter of adapting and counter-adapting, explains Dr Welbergen.

Crested auklets have a distinctive citrus-like plumage odor.

There are three male forms: the typical territorial males, satellite males which have a white neck ruff, and a very rare, recently discovered variant with female-like plumage.

I am excited to see that she also has traces of the male-like facial plumage.