Sentence examples for pair of hooks from inspiring English sources

A pair of hooks on the abdomen anchor the larva, so that it cannot be pulled out of its burrow by the struggling victim.

In Mecoptera, prolegs are present on segments 1 to 8, and segment 10 has either a pair of hooks or a suction disk.

Next to the dung-floored, tin-roofed barn where he keeps his sheep, Mr. Demir maintains a sparkling-clean slaughtering station: a pair of hooks from which to hang the beast, a sharp knife, a hole dug deep into the ground to collect the blood.

Round 5. Mendes lands a pair of hooks early.

A geometrically uniform LV trabecula was then mounted onto a pair of hooks in our work-loop calorimeter [ 51] and superfused (at a rate of 0.5 μL s-1 - 0.7 μL s-1) with Tyrode solution.

The other has one pair of hooks that attach to the eyelets.

One of the main characteristics of the monogenean family Diplectanidae Monticelli, 1903 is their complex haptor formed by 2 pairs of hooks, transversal bars, 14 peripheral marginal hooks, and accessory adhesive organ (lamellodisc or squamodisc) that can be present or absent.

The relative positioning of pairs of hooks and associated spacing showed variation across the predicted proteins, with evidence of a mosaic type pattern.

There is also variation in the distance between pairs of hook motifs, fixed around three gap sizes, and different alleles show different combination of AT-hook gaps.

Some hook rigs for pike feature a pair of treble hooks.

The maggot has lost the complicated head capsule of primitive flies; its pointed anterior end contains one or a pair of mouth hooks.