Sentence examples for species of flat from inspiring English sources

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As sculpture, its tendency is to sprawl rather than to rise; it remains a species of flat relief.

The tenth edition of his "Systema Naturae," published in 1758, lists sixty-three species of scarab beetle, thirty-five species of cone snail, and fifteen species of flat fish.

Leaf insect, (family Phylliidae), also called walking leaf, any of more than 50 species of flat, usually green insects (order Phasmida, or Phasmatodea) that are known for their striking leaflike appearance.

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Prickly pear, also called nopal, any of several species of flat-stemmed spiny cacti of the genus Opuntia (family Cactaceae) and their edible fruits.

Flat bug (family Aradidae), also called fungus bug, any of about 1,000 species of small, flat, dark-coloured insects (order Heteroptera) that are usually found under stones, in crevices in dead or dying trees, or under loose bark.

Sucking louse (suborder Anoplura), any of some 500 species of small, wingless, flat lice (order Phthiraptera) that have piercing and sucking mouthparts and live on blood and tissue fluids of mammals as an ectoparasite (external parasite).

The results of these code rules are high transactions costs for legal use of protected species -- or flat legal prohibition on use, depending on how the forestry agent exercises his determining powers -- and legal inability to limit use of unprotected species.

More puzzling is how very similar species of psyllids (such as the flat galler, Trioza nov. sp. 1, and the cone-galler, Trioza nov. sp. 2) produce such different types of gall.

This series was discarded in the 1870 arrangement of George Bentham; instead, B. prionotes was placed in section Orthostylis, which Bentham defined as consisting of those Banksia species with flat leaves with serrated margins, and rigid, erect styles that "give the cones after the flowers have opened a different aspect".

Instead, this mountaineering master introduces us to a tall, shy, flat-footed species of brown bear with terrible posture, short legs, long arms and a shaggy coif not unlike Mick Jagger circa 1972.

The former is associated with Xenophthalmus pinnotheroides in the Seto Inland Sea, Japan [ 27], and the latter with various species of Macrophthalmus in subtropical intertidal flats of East Asia [ 12].

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