The long and slender gill-rakers serve as strainers for the mud in which these fishes find their vegetable and animal food.
At the other extreme are robust species, with the head very rough, the mouth moderate, the scales larger, and the gill-rakers short and thick.
Then the rakers with enormous wooden rakes; they draw the stalks into bundles, tying each with the hemp itself.
These gill-rakers vary very greatly in number and form.
For instance, adult sockeye and pink salmon have well-developed gill rakers and feed largely on zooplankton, whereas chinook and coho salmon have poorly developed gill rakers and feed almost entirely on fish.
His press agent, Bridgman, was the moving spirit, and one of Colonel Mann's muck-rakers was secretary.
The high number of gill rakers (Table 3) and the length and position of the gut indicate strongly that the three specimens are hybrids with C.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rakers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
