Sentence examples for prominent beak from inspiring English sources

Amphidiploid alleles at QTLs on LGs a02, a07, a08, a09, b02 and b11 tended to confer a prominent beak, while on LG b06 the increase in beak prominence was associated with the allele of Fleur11.

But this red-capped French explorer, with his prominent beak and bony frame, could easily have used another metaphor.

Ian, sent by Sellers to visit him, sees him as "a dapper bird of prey, with piercing dark eyes and a prominent beak," an adult version of the "bird-boy" of his book.

The distinctive shell of Byssonychia, one of the earliest clam genera known, is roughly triangular in outline, tapering sharply to a prominent beak and bearing distinct linear ribbing on the surface.

Pre-40S particles lack the prominent beak structure present in the mature subunit, implying large-scale structural reorganization during 40S maturation (Schafer et al, 2006).

The skull suggests a bizarre crow-sized creature whose face sported sharply pointed cheeks and a prominent beak-like structure.

The species, Mesoplodon hotaula, is a dark blue, Volkswagen-van-sized cetacean with the prominent snout that gives beaked whales their common name.

He says "They have this large beak.

A prominent steel beak (ferro) rises from the prow, a lesser one (risso) from the stern.

Flower: sepals +- 3-nerved, scarious margin narrow or 0. Fruit: outer face 0.8--1.2 0.8--1.2 0.8--1.2e, round, occasionally square, bordered with prommnent ridge; beak 0.6--1.2 mm, +- divergent from fruit surface; aggregate 13--42 mm, 2--3 mm wide, long-exseroundfroccasionally

There are big beaks and then there are pelican beaks.