Sentence examples for long spines from inspiring English sources

Because infection by T. aphyllus decreases fruit and seed production and often suppresses entirely cactus reproduction (Silva and Martinez del Río 1996; Medel 2000), short-spined individuals are strongly selected against, and long spines are expected to evolve as a result of parasite-mediated selection.

Blackthorn, which possesses very long spines, seems over-engineered to deter browsing by deer; but not, perhaps, rhinoceros.

It grows like a sea urchin: long spines of ability radiate out towards specific needs and desires.

Roosterfish are marked by one of the sport-fishing world's most unique dorsal fins — a series of seven long spines, its namesake rooster comb.

Thin-legged wolf spiders (Pardosa), which have a lens-shaped, greenish or gray egg sac, have relatively long legs with long spines on the "foot".

The Early Permian pelycosaurs included carnivores and herbivores that developed long spines on their vertebrae that supported a membrane, or "sail".

"He was slender and tall, with a long spine, long neck and sloping shoulders; a bit pigeonbreasted.

I was old enough to feel embarrassment at standing there alone with my mother, beside a wind-stunted spruce tree, on a long spine of shale.

She does so with a drop in her mellifluousness, but also with a slight curve of her long spine: she bends as if she's just been socked in the back with some slightly familiar bit of bad news.

But the lifeline of this long spine of an island is its railroad, built to a narrow gauge during Japan's occupation of the southern half of the island, from 1905 to 1945.

This includes physical examination and usually long spine X-rays, notorious for ionizing radiation.