Sentence examples for tough seed from inspiring English sources

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

Finches with sturdy bills built for crushing tough seeds can't trill as complex a song as their fellows whose slender little beaks are superb for snatching insects.

Their diet generally consisted of leaves, with some species being specialized folivores and others having a broader diet, possibly including tough seeds.

Dental wear analysis has shed some light on this dietary mystery, suggesting that monkey lemurs had a more eclectic diet, while using tough seeds as a fall-back food item.

Many of the skeletal features of the commensal house sparrows as compared to the non-commensal P. d. bactrianus can be understood as adaptations to process the larger and tougher seeds of domesticated cereals.

Finally, we specifically predict that commensal house sparrows would have larger, more robust beaks and skull features associated with a more robust muscle and jaw architecture compared to the non-commensal P. d. bactrianus, as adaptations to process the larger and tougher seeds of cultivated cereal crops.

Coach Mike D'Antoni tentatively agreed that the Knicks could be a tough six seed, but rushed to say that they weren't battle-tested.

"It's a tough top seed but we could have had a Germany or had a France.

B.U. has a tough draw, seeded third in a regional bracket in which North Dakota is the top seed, Minnesota is the second seed and Western Michigan is the fourth seed.

Some are purely ornamental, with ruffled, bright orange flowers but few or no fruit; others are sour with tough, bony seeds.

The exceptionally large-toothed and strong-jawed robust australopiths (Paranthropus, which also descended from an earlier Australopithecus species), with their distinct dietary niche, one of tough nuts, seeds and fruits and fibrous vegetation, continued to thrive in some of the same localities as these species of early Homo, but they remained evolutionarily separate.