The first glume is thick, coriaceous and closely embraces the rachis of the spike by its involute margin and the other glumes are within.
Fertile glumes coriaceous, cylindrical-involute and closely embracing the smaller palet and the cylindrical grain, having a long and twisted or tortuous simple awn jointed with its apex.
Perennials, with narrow involute leaves and a loose panicle.
Flowering glume coriaceous, at length involute so as closely to enclose the equal palet and the oblong grain; a simple untwisted and deciduous awn jointed on its apex.
Petals 4, strap-shaped, long and narrow, spirally involute in the bud.
Petals inserted on the calyx, narrow, valvate orinvolute in the bud, or often none at all.
Having seeds with longitudinally involute margins, as in some Umbelliferae.
Trees or shrubs, with watery juice, opposite petiolate leaves involutein the bud, with or without stipules, scaly buds, and fibrous roots.
Leaves involute in the bud, entire or slightly serrate.
In the genus Nemognatha of Illiger, the maxillae of the male are elongated, narrow, setiform, and often involute or spiral, like those of a bee or a butterfly.
Defn: A curve from which another curve, called the involuteor evolvent, is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former, or unwound from it.
Defn: The formation of an involute by unwrapping a thread from a curve as an evolute.
The body is ornamented with carelessly drawn, deeply incised, involute designs.
Two small circular depressions occur on the sides of the vessel alternating with the spout and the knob and with these features form centers for four rosettes of involute incised lines.
On the sides of the vessel are engraved figures, consisting of clusters of involute lines, as in the specimen just given.
Flesh= thick, firm, white, unchangeable, but thin at the involute margin.
It resembles Paxillus involutus in size and habit, in the crenate and involute margin of the pileus, and in the stem being obsoletely veined at the base and tomentose toward the gills.
It is separated from the former by the absence of milk and from the latter by its involute margin.
The marked features of this genus are the strongly involute margin, the soft, tough, decurrent gills, separating readily from the flesh, and the color of the spores.
But the involute edges of the pileus are bearded with close hairs.
In young plants the margin is strongly involute or inrolled, and a loose but thick veil of interwoven threads extends from the surface of the roll to the stem.
It consists essentially in determining graphically from the given polar curve an evolute and the involute of the same and then projecting this involute upon a vertical line.
The sea-shore varieties are stiffer and more glaucous, the leaves more ribbed, involute and pointed--e.
All the other species of Aira have involuteand setaceous leaves, and even A.
There are compromises of the spirit too elusive and subtle to be traced in all their involute windings.
Cowperwood, charmed and interested by the involute character of her logic.
This result, which is exact for involute teeth, is approximately true for teeth of any figure.
All involute teeth of the same pitch work smoothly together.
The olivaceous cap with its peculiar involute margin and its radiating stem will greatly assist in its determination.
The pileus, with an involute margin, gradually unfolds.
Gills not decurrent, pileus torn into scales, and slightly convex, margin at firstinvolute Leptonia.
The young, growing plants were strongly involute but the older plants were reflexed, giving the plants a funnel-shaped appearance and giving the gills a much stronger decurrent appearance.
The distinctive features of this genus are theinvolute margin and the soft, tough, and decurrent gills which are easily separable from the hymenophore.
The lines of the involute are arranged in four groups of two each and occupy an unusually wide belt.
The involute design in the center resembles the Aztec symbol of day, but is peculiar in its division into three parts, four being the number almost universally used.
The division into zones is the same as in the shell disks; the outer is divided into twelve lobes, and the cross in the center takes the place of the involute rosette with its central circle.
It will be seen by reference to the fourth column that the involutesymbol of the inner zone is, with one exception, divided into three parts.
The central circle incloses a perforated circlet, and the involute lines are long and shallow.
It is about four inches in diameter and is inscribed with the usual design, a central circle and dot surrounded by a triple involute and three concentric zones.
A method commonly employed in practice to strike the curves of involute teeth, is as follows:-- In Fig.
For Faces of Racks; and of Pinions for Racks and Internal Gears; | | for Flanks of Internal and Sides of Involute Teeth.
For Faces of Racks; and of Pinions for Racks and Internal Gears; for | | Flanks of Internal and Sides of Involute Teeth.
The teeth of the wheels should always be of involute and not of epicycloidal form, for the following reasons.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "involute" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
