Scuta with the occludent margin either considerably curved or nearly straight.
During the first two days they began rising in the early afternoon in a nearly straight line, until between 6 and 7 P.
If the hypocotyl is exposed to a moderately strong lateral light it moves quickly towards this side, travelling in a straight, or nearly straight, line.
The squares attached above the apex cause the radicle to bend abruptly, the part above and beneath remaining nearly straight; so that here there is little or no transmitted effect.
When a plant which is strongly heliotropic (and species differ much in this respect) is exposed to a bright lateral light, it bends quickly towards it, and the course pursued by the stem is quite or nearly straight.
Upper mandible with the cutting edge nearly straight; tarsi feathered to the toes; claws unequal, grooved beneath; wings with the fourth primary longest.
Bill short, subconical; upper mandible curved at tip and bending over lower one, which is nearly straight; the edges of both somewhat inflected and not notched.
In some specimens, the neck is nearly straight; in others, sweeping, or circular; and sometimes the extremities nearly or quite approach each other.
The apical spine (or horn) is larger, nearly straight, and bears a verticil of three large divergent branches, which are again ramified.
The ventral rod is strongly curved, often semicircular, the dorsal rod less curved or nearly straight.
Thorax with nine very stout and nearly straight ribs, which are connected by fifteen to twenty or more irregular, interrupted transverse bars.
The apical spine is shorter and simpler, nearly straight, less ramified.
Its bottom was slightly rounded athwartships, with a slight rocker fore-and-aft; the sides flared outward and were nearly straight; and the turn of the bilge was almost angular.
Many types had a straight, or nearly straight, sheer; others had an orthodox sheer, with the lowest part nearly amidships.
The ends were formed with a marked "ram," the stem profiles running down and out to the "nose" in a straight or nearly straight line.
Free microscleres abundant in the dermal membrane, slender, nearly straight, gradually and sharply pointed, profusely ornamented with short straight spines, which are much more numerous and longer at the middle than near the ends.
The front row of eyes is nearly straight, the middle pair only a little the higher (fig.
Both rows of eyes are strongly curved, with the middle eyes highest, so that the middle eyes of the lower row and the lateral of the upper row form a nearly straight line (fig.
A, 1) is a stout, nearly straight, somewhat flattened bone widely expanded at both ends.
The dorsal or =suprascapular border= of the scapula is rounded, while the posterior or =glenoid border= is nearly straight.
Each fin-ray forms a delicate, nearly straight, bony rod which becomes thickened and bifurcated at its proximal or vertebral end, while distally it is transversely jointed and flexible, frequently also becoming more or less flattened.
The earlier ones are thicker and more curved; the later ones thinner and more nearly straight.
The haft, which is the only one seen of walrus ivory, is nearly straight, and the unusually long point of the blade is strongly bent up.
The crook is a nearly straight "branch" of an antler with a transverse arm at the base made by cutting out a piece of the "beam" to fit against the pole, and is held on by three neat lashings of whalebone of the usual pattern.
When the folds are all of the same length and but slightly gathered the sole is turned up nearly straight, as at the heel usually, and at the toe also of waterproof boots.
The left edge is nearly straight, the right considerably arched with a few setæ on the posterior half.
Bill of moderate length, nearly straight; wings shortish, with the fourth quill longest; tail short, much rounded.
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