In Dynastes Milon, a most remarkable beetle, it slopes backwards in a waving line[737]; and in Onthophagus spinifer it is recurved and reclining.
Mantidae whose tegmina simulate arid leaves, in a recurved one[1826].
This species is slightly larger than the last and similar but with the throat and breast grayish and with the outer web of the outer primary provided with recurved hooks.
Alaska Coast, similar in form and plumage to the latter, except that the whole under parts are gray and it has a crest of recurved feathers.
Breast gray, belly white; a small tuft of recurved feathers on the forehead and slender white plumes from base of bill over the eye and from under the eye, backwards.
There is a scarce variety with recurved leaves (T.
The stem is armed with strong slightly recurved spines, and both the stems and the petioles of the leaves are covered with a very dense crop of short stiff brown hairs scarcely rising above the skin.
Its distinctiveness arises from the fact that the leaves are recurved in a peculiarly graceful manner.
The lower jaw has a prominent, narrow, recurved coronoid, and a well-developed angular process, and is strongly decurved in front.
The Tropidorhynchus has a pale ruff formed of curious recurved feathers on the nape (which has given the whole genus the name of Friar birds); this is represented in the Mimeta by a pale band in the same position.
On the back of the head is a broad recurved band of feathers, whose brilliancy is indescribable, resembling the sheen of emerald and topaz rather than any organic substance.
Linear-lanceolate; one to three feet long; one or two inches wide; rigid; margins at length bearing coarse recurved threads.
It may be known from the other members of the Mint family by its campanulate calyx with ten strong, recurved teeth.
Campanulate; five-cleft to the middle or lower; with recurved lobes.
In themselves, these blossoms are not ill-favored, with their slender, recurved petals; but to us the root is the most interesting part of the plant.
The smaller lip of two narrow spreading or recurved divisions; the larger three-lobed; broader than long; nine or ten lines by five or six lines.
Lip erect, saccate below, concave above, and narrowing into the recurved summit.
Five to eight lines long; with short tube and slender, spreading, recurved lobes.
Dickens, of Kansas, states that this variety was formerly disseminated under the name of Admirable but this appears to be a mistake as Admirable is invariably given as having recurved stamens while the stamens of Fern Munson are erect.
Georgia, Texas and Missouri report this variety as having erect stamens but in our vineyard it shows only recurved stamens.
Plumage white; in breeding season with numerousrecurved plumes growing from the middle of the back; long crest of plumes on the back of the head, and on the breast.
Valve small, curved, with parallel dorsal and ventral margins; apices truncate and recurved into dorsal elevations; striae delicate.
Cores to Loops, which may consist either of single lines, here called rods, or of a recurved line or staple, while the ridges that immediately envelops them is called an envelope 76 Fig.
After a time the mouth opened in a silent snarl, showing great white fangs and recurved simitars of teeth.
Vines with long, recurved thorns and blossoms of deep scarlet, laced the undergrowth together and made passing dangerous.
They have strong jaws, and on the eighth joint of the body there are two fleshy tubercles, thickly clothed with reddish hairs, and armed with a recurved horny spine, the whole giving to the grub the form of the letter Z.
It seems to have been a Spartan name for a soldier’s cup, used for drinking-water, and was adapted by its recurved mouth for straining off mud.
Campanulate: bell-shaped: more or less ventricose at the base and a littlerecurved at the margin.
Crook: the hook or recurved tip of the antenna in Hesperidae.
The stems are long and arching, growing from 2 to 6 feet in height; they are brown and are armed at frequent intervals with short, decidedly recurved thorns or prickles.
The clusters of flowers terminating the branches are composed of pink, bell-shaped blossoms, having five pointed, recurved lobes.
Spongillidae in which the gemmule-spicules are without a trace of rotulae and the flesh-spicules have slender cylindrical shafts that bear at or near either end a circle of strong recurved spines.
In one genus (Corvospongilla) they resemble a double grappling-iron in form, having a circle of strongly recurved hooks at both ends.
In the various names which the dandelion has received, we see expressed, for the most part, either a reference to the tooth-like recurved lobes of the leaves, Fig.
Still, even with these odds against it, the dandelion seems well able to hold its own, for it probably derives more or less advantage from the recurved lobes, or teeth, which give the plant its name.
It has, unlike that palm, leaf stalks growing all the way to the bottom, the lower ones gracefully recurved and the upper ones spreading airily.
Chapman (1891) has explained it very well, as follows: The use of the avocet's recurved bill is clearly explained by the manner in which the bird procures its food.
The teeth are all simple, conical, slightly recurved structures, with simple tapering roots and without enamel.
The acromion of the scapula has a recurved process, similar to that often found in rodents.
Thus in the Wrasse (Labrus), the jaws bear conical slightlyrecurved teeth arranged in one or two rows, with some of the anterior ones much larger than the rest.
The =canine= is a large pointed tooth, slightly recurved and with a long tapering root.
In the Sperm whale, Physeter, the lower jaw bears a series of twenty to twenty-five stout conical recurved teeth, while in the upper jaw the teeth are vestigial and remain imbedded in the gum.
The milk teeth are very slender and have sharp recurved cusps; they are quite unlike the permanent teeth.
Both these Godwits are readily distinguished from other Limicoline species on the British coasts by their long and recurved bills.
The nuptial ornaments are also very different, for just previous to the pairing season, in early spring, a nodding plume or frontal crest of recurved feathers is assumed.
Valves unequal, rough; hinge with two recurved teeth, with a hollow between them; shell sometimes eared.
The syphon passes through the base of the aperture, either into a canal, or channel, or a narrow, recurved margin.
This locality is represented in the picture-writings by a strange and impossible mountain with a recurved summit (fig.
A recurved staff, which is held in the hand of a deity in the B.
The upper jaws end in two recurved appendages, each exhibiting seven star symbols.
In this work I presented my reasons for concluding that these recurved sceptres were ceremonial forms of the atlatl.
One of these two deities is distinguished from all others by his larger size and by the fact that he stands on a double animal and heads the procession holding a recurved sceptre in his hand.
The fourth sceptre on Esarhaddon's stela is like that represented as inserted into one of the altars on the Bavian stela, and terminates in a recurved ram's head.
In this case it would strangely resemble the Maya Kukulkan and the Nahuatl Cul-hua-can, the name of the fabulous recurvedmountain of Aztec tradition.
They evidently supply the missing groups whose places are filled up by the recurved upper jaws of the serpents, heads at the bottom of the monolith.
Elongated, cylindrical, chambered, recurved at the smaller extremity, annulated; septa lobed and sinuated.
A genus formed of those species of Patella which have a produced, recurved beak.
This canal is sometimes straight, sometimes tortuous, and in some genera it is recurved over the back of the shell.
The mitral ring bears on each corner a short ascending spine, the basal ring a larger, thorny, obliquely descending spine, which has some recurved thorns on the upper edge.
The terminal coronets (at the distal ends of the sixteen styles) are four times forked, with sixteen equal spinulate fingers, each finger at the distal end with eight recurved teeth.
Thorax with much larger, irregular roundish pores, and three widely divergent ribs, which are prolonged into three slender, somewhat recurved feet of about the same length.
The cap-shaped distal end of each finger is armed with eight to twelve recurved teeth.
Cephalis spherical, thorny, with regular circular pores, and a slender prismatic horn of twice the length, bearing at its apex three short recurved branches.
Each of the fifteen branches bears a terminal spathilla with five to seven recurved teeth.
Each branch bears two opposite series of small recurved teeth and a terminal spathilla of six to eight largerrecurved teeth.
Proximal two-thirds smooth, the distal third studded with numerous small recurved thorns.
They are either simply forked or again ramified, and their distal ends are either simply pointed or armed with a terminal spathilla, or a little crown of recurved teeth.
The branches are from twice to three times as long as the tube is broad, and much thinner; at the distal end they are armed with a spathilla of five or six recurved teeth.
