Sentence examples for tail fork from inspiring English sources
Some of the fish he measured twice — once from snout to tail end, and once from snout to tail fork.
Females are similar to males in most respects, but the throat is all white, and they also lack the obvious tail fork shown by the male.
The Pacific swift can be distinguished with care by its deeper tail fork, longer wings, bigger head, larger white throat patch and patterned underparts.
On 28 and 29 June 2005, I removed the cages, collected all surviving larvae and brought them to the lab for weight (to the nearest 0.1 mg) and length measurements (to the nearest 0.5 mm from mandibles to tail fork) to look for possible effects of host chemotype on larvae.
Of 17 males captured >2 years of age in Colorado, only eight have shown an increase in the amount of tail forking (length of r5 – r5).
Federal regulations say that one shark has to be at last 4.5 feet long from its snout to the place where the tail forks.
Relative wing length, wing pointedness, and the degree of tail forking were positively correlated with migratory distance, whereas tail length (relative to wing length) was negatively correlated.
One possibility is fork chasing and head-to-tail fork collision (rear-ending), which has been shown to cause fork collapse and termination of DNA re-replication in Xenopus (Davidson et al., 2006).
The tail is forked and the straight bill unusually long.
Long tail noticeably forked on older adult males, often fanned in flight.
I think I gave it five, and two subsequent reheatings of 45 minutes each only enhanced the tail's fork-meltingness.
