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Example sentences for "other fishes"

  • He seems to employ all the known tactics of other fishes, and to add a few of his own in his gallant fight for freedom.

  • All are greedy, voracious fishes, marauding tyrants, living almost entirely on other fishes.

  • It feeds on all small aquatic organisms and insects and their larvae, and the fry of other fishes, tadpoles, etc.

  • There was never any dearth of fried white-perch or other fishes in our camp, and we never tired of them.

  • In this part of the paper considerable space is devoted to a comparison of the organs of Lepidosteus with those of other Fishes, and to a statement of the conclusions which follow from such comparison.

  • The first rudiments of the limbs appear in Scyllium, as in other fishes, as slight longitudinal ridge-like thickenings of the epiblast, which closely resemble the first rudiments of the unpaired fins.

  • In the adult Petromyzon the trigeminal nerve innervates specially a massive suctorial apparatus, by means of which it holds on to other fishes, or to stones in the bottom of the stream.

  • At transformation the thyroid of Ammocoetes is largely destroyed, and what remains of the gland in Petromyzon becomes limited to a few follicles resembling those of other fishes.

  • They seldom take the hook, and rarely feed on other fishes.

  • They attack the spawn of other fishes open-mouthed, and are even said to suck the eggs from an impaled female.

  • The name is applied to other fishes in the Northern Hemisphere.

  • The name is given elsewhere to other fishes.

  • Other fishes, as the eels, are extremely long and slender, and some carry this elongation to great extremes.

  • The majority of fishes feed on other fishes, and without much regard to species or condition.

  • In those which feed upon plants the intestine is very long and much convoluted, while in those which feed on other fishes it is always relatively short.

  • They advance through the water but very slowly, compared to the motion of other fishes.

  • They ascend or descend in the water with greater promptitude, but they cannot turn to the right or left with the same facility as other fishes.

  • Their gills, in place of presenting the comb-like appearance of other fishes, have something of the form of a purse.

  • Their chief organ of natation is the caudal fin, but they are distinguished from all other fishes by the manner in which they use this oar.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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