Sentence examples for thick tough from inspiring English sources

Both dugongs and manatees have thick tough skin (that of Steller's sea cow was even tougher).

Bamba's dessert list is short, but winning, except for the thick, tough churros delgados.

Mechanical restriction of the growth of the embryo is common only in species that have thick, tough seed coats.

This polypore is a local conk — a thick, tough kind of polypore — but its name is proprietary information.

Many protozoans respond to adverse environmental conditions by encysting: they secrete a thick, tough wall around themselves and effectively enter a quiescent state comparable to hibernation.

A soldier's exoskeleton, twice the size of that of an ordinary worker, is literally heavy armor: thick, tough, and pitted in places for resilience and strength.

He comes round convinced he is Conway Carruthers, secret agent, the thick-skulled, tough-knuckled hero of the book he's just been reading, and charges off to eastern Europe to thwart the nuclear ambitions of a power-crazed countess.

Female sharks of many species may have evolved thicker, tougher skin than males for this very reason.

The fruit has an appearance and texture similar to that of grapes, but with thicker, tougher, purple-colored skin.

Thick, hard plastic (PVC, etc).. Tough leather.

Like most living things, they have evolved an impressive array of defense mechanisms to avoid becoming dinner: thick bark, tough leaves, thorns, spines, poisons.