When the limbless lizard called the Slow-worm is suddenly seized by the tail, it escapes by surrendering the appendage, which breaks across a preformed weak plane.
We have seen that the primitive vertebrate was headless and limbless and without hard parts.
The larvae of the Diptera are generally limbless maggots, gifted with a pair of jaws, and they are usually very voracious feeders, devouring decomposing animal or vegetable matter in enormous quantities.
As with the last order, some degenerate from the comparatively complicated free-swimming and eyed larval state to blind and limbless parasites that feed on the bodies of fishes and are known as fish lice.
The pectoral girdle is well developed in all groups of reptiles except the Ophidia, occurring even in the limbless Amphisbaenidae.
The birch was a long, limbless cylinder of bark, broken off about fourteen feet up, and utterly rotten, the mere skin of a tree stuffed with dust.
Presumably the presence of osteoderms and of complete cranial arches are more archaic than their absence, just as we conclude that limbless forms have been evolved from various groups possessed of fully developed limbs.
The same applies to the limbless little Ophiopsiseps nasutus of Australia.
The motions of these limbless lizards are similar to those of snakes, which they resemble in their elongate body.
Some of the woods which they occupied were shelled until they could see from end to end through the remaining limbless poles of the trunks.
In the foreground it was variegated by the ruins of villages and those exclamation points of desolation, the limbless trees, which melted into its greenish-ashen sweep over the fort-crowned hills in the distance.
Now there is a considerable lake, and in the center stand tall, limbless trees, different in species from those growing along the canon.
Near the banks the forest trees are interlaced at various angles and in confusion, but further out in the deep water they stand straight, erect, and limbless and barkless, 100 feet tall.
Brion had an insane vision of him breaking the man's other arm, fracturing both his legs, and the limbless broken creature still coming forward.
Something small, limbless and throbbing was on the slide.
Many of the trees possess a long vertical fringe of limbs to leeward, beinglimbless and barkless to stormward.
Scattered through this young growth were hundreds of dead and limbless trees killed by a fire of thirty years before.
The limbless bases of the spruces were set deep in snow, and their lower limbs were pulled down and tangled in it.
Moreover, in these limbless Saurians we always find bones of the shoulder hidden below the skin, whilst no trace of them can be discovered in the true Snakes.
There are various limbless Saurians of Ophidian appearance, but the systematic position of which is decided by the structure of their jaws.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "limbless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
