Sentence examples for more ornamented from inspiring English sources

It is a common observation in evolutionary studies that larger, more ornamented or earlier breeding individuals have higher fitness, but that body size, ornamentation or breeding time does not change despite of sometimes substantial heritability for these traits.

Although the house's sleek, minimalist style stands in contrast to many of the larger, more ornamented homes built recently in affluent Long Island areas, it is regarded by experts as an icon of the Modernist movement.

Rose point (point de rose) was less grandiose than gros point but even more ornamented with many little loops (picots) and rosettes; lace with more light bars of thread (brides) worked with such motifs as picots and stars like snowflakes was called point de neige ("snow lace").

Females may also be the more ornamented sex.

When males become more ornamented and reproduce more successfully as they grow older, phenotypic correlations between ornament exaggeration and reproductive success can be confounded with age effects in cross-sectional studies, and thus say relatively little about sexual selection on these traits.

Females are larger but males have relatively longer tails, larger and more ornamented heads and a larger central flank patch, all of which are emphasized during agonistic displays.

Designed by Charles Rose, one of the architects for the original Brokaw house, these were more heavily ornamented — and therefore more conventional — than the chastely modest original house.

And Ryan Hoffman is more ornament to rugby league than man.

In that world, love or sadness existed, but were considered more ornament than underpinning.

The fifth leg is an excuse to pile on more ornament.

And there were hair clips with tulle rosettes and more ornaments on the vividly colored stilettos.