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Example sentences for "several species"

  • His master had often seen locusts in small quantities, and of several species,--for there are many kinds of these singular insects in South Africa.

  • No doubt, when the central parts of Africa have been thoroughly explored, several species of hyena will be added to the list of those already known.

  • The trees consisted chiefly of mimosas--of several species; upon the leaves, roots, and tender shoots of which the great ruminant loves to browse.

  • The rodents are represented by the beaver, the porcupine, and squirrels of several species; the marsupials by the opossum.

  • The inspissated juice of several species is used in medicine, under the name of aloes, forming a bitter purgative.

  • Crete, a genus of cruciferous plants, several species of which are cultivated on account of their white or yellow coloured flowers; madwort.

  • A name given to several species of the composite genus Senecio.

  • Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, as the bur fish, and puffer.

  • In South America, several species of the "Aeneas" group of these butterflies are mimicked by Pieridae and by day-flying moths of the genera Castnia and Pericopis.

  • The less perfect examples are those presented by several species of cuckoos, an exceedingly weak and defenceless group of birds.

  • Several species of Diadema, a genus of butterflies allied to our Vanessas, also mimic species of Danais, but in this case the females only are affected, a subject which will be discussed in another chapter.

  • Several species of dolichos are used as food in various countries, as D.

  • Several species of Nicotium furnish tobacco; that chiefly used in Europe is procured from N.

  • Of plants yielding starch we have the Indian arrowroot, which is the fecula in the rhizomata of several species of the Marantaceæ.

  • This is a discussion of several species of hickory as stocks on which to graft the named varieties of shagbark, shellbark and hybrid hickories.

  • Several species of nuts are among this class of plants with doubled chromosomal numbers, however, such duplications occurred in nature.

  • CHASE: This is a short discussion of several species of hickory which Mr. Smith has used as stocks to graft named varieties.

  • Hermaphroditism has been observed in several species of Serranus, as well as in some other fishes, where it is either normal and symmetrical, or abnormal and unilateral.

  • The question whether mankind consists of one or several species has of late years been much discussed by anthropologists, who are divided into the two schools of monogenists and polygenists.

  • In Anthophora retusa the male is of a rich fulvous-brown, whilst the female is quite black: so are the females of several species of Xylocopa, the males being bright yellow.

  • Westring has made the interesting discovery that the males of several species of Theridion (23.

  • Mr. MacLachlan informs me of another instance of dimorphism in several species of Agrion, in which some individuals are of an orange colour, and these are invariably females.

  • Any one of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Pithecia.

  • Any one of several species of fishes of the genus Salmo and allied genera.

  • In Hughes's Natural History of Barbadoes, an account is also given of several species of animal flowers.

  • Animal flower, in zoology, is a name given to several species of animals belonging to the genus of Actinia of Linnaeus.

  • It is found in the West Indies and South America, and is exceeded both in weight and magnitude by several species of bees.

  • Several species occur at different elevations in the Khasia, and appear only in autumn, when they often carpet the bottom of the streams with green.

  • With regard to Vaccinium, this is the more anomalous, as several species grow in the temperate regions of Sikkim.

  • Laurineae of several species, all beautiful forest-trees, straight-holed, and umbrageous above.

  • Several species of small deer (Maya, ke) occur in Mexico and Central America whose relationships are not yet thoroughly understood (Pls.

  • Coyotes of several species occur in Mexico and though not generally regarded as aggressive animals are of a predacious nature.

  • They consisted of several species of Lymnea, of Planorbis bicarinatus, Physa heterostropha, &c.

  • Several species of deer also, and, according to some accounts, the remains of a bear, were discovered.

  • While working with the seedlings of several species of walnuts certain diagnostic characters, by which the common species can be separated, became evident.

  • Storage and Germination of Nuts of Several Species of Juglans W.

  • Cox 58 Storage and Germination of Nuts of Several Species of Juglans--W.

  • The seeds of several species of leguminous plants.

  • On it were innumerable barnacles, several species of teredo, one of which, having its head shaped like a screw split into two equal portions, I believe to have been quite new.

  • The flower of several species of Banksia.

  • In the alluvium which covers all, the remains have been discovered of several species of elephant, which, according to Dr Edmund Naumann, are of Indian origin.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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