In terms of visual resemblance, we found that, regardless of the visual system, P. straeleni closely resembled N. sexfasciatus, with Δ S values being either below or just around the discrimination threshold for all body regions (Δ S, 0.3 1.7, mean ± s.e. = 1.0 ± 0.2).
The visual resemblance between their pictures is uncanny.
In this instance the orchid flower also bears some visual resemblance to the female, giving rise to some of the common orchid names—for example, bee orchids.
Not because he was a foodie (no one was in 1986) but simply because he could remember a time when food did not come pre-packed, frozen and reshaped so that it bore no visual resemblance to its animal origin.
To form the signature Birkenstock foot bed, the latex and the cork are blended in a proprietary formula, creating a brownish granulated paste that, in its prebaked state, bears an unfortunate visual resemblance to cat vomit.
This time, "whispered speculation" bubbled up — Smith once more reaches into his quiver of tact — as "members of the Rockefeller inner circle discerned a startling visual resemblance" between the Governor and one of the Murphys' four children.
Perhaps even more than Muslims, Sikhs in the United States have been singled out for harassment since the terrorist attacks, perhaps because the long beards and turbans prescribed by their Indian religion give them a visual resemblance to the terrorist Osama bin Laden and the Taliban.
Jeremy Renner, playing the sociopathic, cigarette-smoking bomb-disposal technician, terminally addicted to the army life, does bear a strong visual resemblance to Marine Lance Corporal James Blake Miller, who became famous in the US after being snapped by news photographers in Falluja in 2004, smoking a cigarette in an unconscious "Marlboro man" pose.
The giveaway was not just that the dimensions were identical and the visual resemblance astounding but that the top and left sides of the "Madonna" had jagged edges that matched precisely the bottom and right side of the "Flagellation," and the right side of the "Madonna" had a red border exactly the same as the border on the left side of the "Flagellation".
Research on graphic symbol learning suggests that symbols with a greater visual resemblance to their referents (greater iconicity) are more easily learned.
