Sentence examples for surface of the feather from inspiring English sources

The surface of the feather has a fish scale structure.

Most of the supposed melanosomes associated with fossil feathers have been distributed in dense mats over the surface of the feathers, rather than being embedded within them.None of which went down well with several of the other delegates at the meeting.

The fine branches on the surface of the feather-like nanostructure have shown a uniform fish scale shape, which are about 100 nm long, 10 nm thick and several tens of nanometers in width.

The metallic lustre of the feathers of many birds, such as the humming birds, is due to the presence of excessively fine striae upon the surface of the feathers".

The probe was held perpendicular to the surface of the feathers (or bill in the case of the blackbird) hence illumination and recording angles were both 90°.

The probe was held perpendicular to the surface of the feathers and illumination and recording angles were both 90°.

Look at the surface of the tire for feathering (bad alignment).

The morphological changes on the surface of feather due to the action of isolated bacterial strain PM2 was noted by comparing with control.

The upper surfaces of the flight feathers of most species are provided with a nap that makes the flight perfectly noiseless, allowing the owl to hear prey without interference caused by the sound of flight.

In most birds contour feathers are not uniformly distributed over the surface of the body but are arranged in feather tracts (pterylae) separated from one another by regions of almost naked skin (apteria).

The primary functions of preening include: controlling ectoparasites load (Clayton et al. 2010), removing dirt and detritus (Lenouvel et al. 2009; Griggio et al. 2010), spreading preen wax over the surface of feathers (Moyer et al. 2003), and keeping feathers properly positioned.