Sentence examples for ribbonsnake from inspiring English sources

In design after design certain motifs reappear: angular forms, asymmetric plans, transparent verticals and floating, ribbonlike horizontals.

Villages stretch ribbonlike along the major roadways.

The chemical links between the individual glucose subunits give each cellulose molecule a flat ribbonlike structure that allows adjacent molecules to band laterally together into microfibrils with lengths ranging from two to seven micrometres.

Originating at the pubis and the ischium (lower portions of the pelvis the hipbone), these ribbonlike muscles are attached along the femur (thighbone).

Most lampridiforms are elongated, ribbonlike fishes; the giant oarfish can reach 8 m (25 feet) in length.

This ribbonlike form of the metal is produced mainly from wirebars that are rolled in a mill similar to that used for the production of wire.

Elopiforms, along with other elopomorphs, have a ribbonlike, translucent, pelagic larva (leptocephalus) that undergoes a striking metamorphosis involving shrinkage to about half the maximum larval size.

Thalloid (thallose) liverworts have a ribbonlike, or strap-shaped, body that grows flat on the ground.

The gametophyte is a small ribbonlike thallus that resembles a thallose liverwort.

Many species lack both stems and leaves; photosynthesis takes place instead in a highly modified, ribbonlike thallus (vegetative plant body) upon which flowering and leaf-bearing secondary shoots sometimes develop.

Although a ribbonlike expansion of the stem is often the most striking feature of this condition, all parts of the plant may be affected.