Sentence examples for rudimentary feathers from inspiring English sources
Other Liaoning discoveries, such as Protarchaeopteryx and the oviraptorosaur Caudipteryx, showed that these animals had some types of rudimentary feathers that are not represented in Archaeopteryx or later birds.
Still other groups of feathers are gathered in vanes with a rudimentary stalk and a strong base.
Because Archaeopteryx had a full complement of long feathers and its skeleton suggests at least a rudimentary ability to fly, it has been regarded as the first known bird, a position it has held since its discovery.
Bird feathers, for example, probably originated for thermoregulation and rudimentary wings may have been useful in capturing prey or assisting with running uphill or one or more other functions (e.g., Dial 2003).
All the southern albatrosses create large nests for their egg, utilizing grass, shrubs, soil, peat, and even penguin feathers, whereas the three species in the North Pacific make more rudimentary nests.
Trials are often rudimentary.
These now seem rudimentary.
The furniture is very rudimentary.
Conrad speaks of Africans as "rudimentary souls" and savages, and compares one mechanically adept African man to "a dog in a parody of breeches and a feather hat walking on his hind legs".
Corporate governance is rudimentary.
