Window screens for the purpose of excluding flies, mosquitoes, and other insects, while freely admitting the air, are now made extensible and adjustable in different ways to fit different sizes of windows.
Mention has been made of a combined folding desk and extensible table.
The birds which compose this family are characterised by a rather long, conical, pointed beak, and by a very extensible tongue.
As described by De Blainville, the body is oval or circular, and gelatinous, sustained in the interior of the dorsal disk by a solid sub-cartilaginous frame, provided on the lower surface of the disk with extensible tentacular cirri.
Bivalves move about and change from place to place by means of an extensible fleshy organ called, from some of its functions, a foot; in fact, it has less resemblance to a foot than to a large tongue.
The animal is able to open and close these holes at pleasure, by means of an extensible membrane, which acts as a sort of valve.
The inhabitant of the shell has the peculiarity of projecting from its mouth a sort of cylindrical trunk, which is long, veryextensible as well as flexible, and probably prehensile, the use of which is only the subject of surmise.
The caissons of these sets carried 24-inch lights on extensible towers.
Volute spiring, a spring formed of a spiral scroll of plate, rod, or wire, extended or extensible in the direction of the axis of the coil, in which direction its elastic force is exerted and employed.
Defn: A transparent, extensible membrane of extreme tenuity, which forms the innermost coating of grains of pollen.
A transparent, extensible membrane of extreme tenuity, which forms the innermost coating of grains of pollen.
The race kind of stretches out like an elastic--it's an extensible race.
The thorax, into which I traced the vesicula seminalis, no doubt also serves for the emission and first direction of the spermatozoa; and hence, perhaps, its singularly extensible structure.
But at least one enormous, extensibleeye was always pointed toward the board, always was at least one nimble and bat-like ear cocked attentively in the direction of the signal panel.
The eldest could gulp up the ocean at a mouthful; the second was hard enough to nick steel; the third had extensible legs; the fourth was unaffected by fire; the fifth lived without breathing.
They hauled him aboard and took him farther from land, but still his extensible legs supported him above the waters.
A country of not readily extensible resources, Switzerland exhibits nearly as clearly as does Holland the dangers of over-population.
The tongue in all serpents is a slender, extensible organ, forked at the tip, usually black, and always seen protruded and waving about when a snake is disturbed.
Upon this the angry snake directs a blast of air through its extensible windpipe, with the effect that a jet of fine venom spray is emitted toward an enemy.
The long and greatly extensible and elastic body tapers almost equally at each end, but the head end is that which goes forward in crawling, and a lens will show a mouth on its lower surface, beneath a sort of thick lip.
The thick, extensible foot is surmounted by a body coiled within the shell; and this foot secretes a viscid fluid that lubricates the creature's path, and often leaves a silvery trail.
Where is theextensible mouth (proboscis) kept when not in use?
The six legs, the large wings, and the small feelers may be easily found, as are the large eyes, the extensible mouth, and beneath the larger wings the small undeveloped ones looking like tiny knobs.
For a while nothing happened and then anextensible started flailing.
Jordan clutched an extensible as the machine jolted and rocked.
Jordan would have fallen off if an extensible hadn't steadied him.
Another extensible reached out to investigate the body.
Another extensible emerged from the squat body; the tip flashed a light toward the outside.
He shoved the lever in the opposite direction and though it didn't stop the gyrations of the extensible it did start the treads.
It was an accident that a wildly moving extensible clamped the lid down as he reached inside.
Though these pigeons have a narrow beak, yet their jaws and throat are soextensible that they can swallow fruits of very large size.
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