Hairy Sentence Examples

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  • Young Indian elephants are hairy, thus showing affinity with the mammoth.

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  • Hairy covering long and woolly.

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  • The tail is generally long and hairy.

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  • Denisov hid his hairy legs under the blanket, looking with a scared face at his comrade for help.

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  • They are herbaceous perennials, generally with hairy serrated leaves and handsome flowers.

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  • The female can protrude a long flexible tube in connexion with the eighth segment, carrying the sclerites of the ninth at its extremity, and these sclerites may carry short hairy processes A B D.yrnt,sc/'rle moathd ..

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  • The beetles are hairy and their larvae well-armoured and often predaceous.

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  • With the stocks, when a whiteflowered and hairless form is crossed with a cream-flowered and hairless one, all the offspring are purple and hairy.

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  • C. umbellate, 3 to 4 in., much branched, with narrow hairy leaves, and corymbs of magenta-crimson flowers in the summer months.

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  • The Egyptian goose (chenalopex) is figured in the XVIIIth dynasty as sacred to Ammon; but his most frequent and celebrated incarnation was the woolly sheep with curved (" Ammon") horns (as opposed to the oldest native breed with long horizontal twisted horns and hairy coat, sacred to Khnum or Chnumis).

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  • It was black and white, as hairy as a skye-terrier, and as large as a medium-sized spaniel.

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  • Those broad, reddish hands, with hairy wrists visible from under the shirt cuffs, laid down the pack and took up a glass and a pipe that were handed him.

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  • His surname "of Antequera" was given him because he was besieging that town, then in the hands of the Moors, when he was told that the cortes of Aragon had elected him king in succession to his uncle Martin, the last male of the old line of Wilfred the Hairy.

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  • In all the fore-limbs have five and the hind four digits; and the similar to those covering the legs; the inner surface of the cheeks being hairy.

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  • Mayflies and dragon-flies danced in the sunlight; lizards darted across the paths; and legions of spiders pervaded the grass, many very beautiful - frosted - silver backs, or curious, like the saltigrades, who took a few steps and then gave a leap. There were crickets in infinite numbers; and flies innumerable, from slim daddy-long-legs to ponderous, black, hairy fellows known to science as Dejeaniae; hymenopterous insects in profusion, including our old friend the bishop of Ambato (possibly Dielis), in company with another formidable stinger, with chrome antennae, called by the natives ` the Devil '; and occasional Phasmas (caballo de palo) crawling painfully about, like animated twigs."

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  • The appearance of the heavy-bodied hairy Bombi is well known.

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  • In all these antelopes long cylindrical horns are present in both sexes; the muzzle is hairy; there is no gland below the eye; the tail is long and tufted; and in the breadth of their tall crowns the upper molar-teeth resemble those of the oxen.

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  • The flowers, which appear in March and April, are borne on pendulous hairy catkins, 2 -3 in.

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  • Small, hairy, black pigs, and fowls, are universal.

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  • The bark of the older stems is of a bright brown, mottled with grey, that of the young twigs is ash-coloured, and glandular and hairy.

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  • The wombat of Tasmania and the islands of Bass's Straits (P. ursinus), and the closely similar but larger P. platyrhinus of the southern portion of the mainland of Australia, belong to this group. On the other hand, in the hairy-nosed wombat (P. latifrons) of Southern Australia, the fur is smooth and silky; the ears are large and more pointed; the muzzle is hairy; the frontal region of the skull is broader than in the other section, with well-marked postorbital processes; and there are thirteen ribs.

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  • Man differs from them in the absence of a hairy coat; in the development of a large lobule to the external ear; in his fully erect attitude; in his flattened foot with the non-opposable great toe; in the straight limb-bones; in the wider pelvis; in the marked sigmoid flexure of his spine; in the perfection of the muscular movements of the arm; in the delicacy of hand; in the smallness of the canine teeth and other dental peculiarities; in the development of a chin; and in the small size of his jaws compared to the relatively great size of the cranium.

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  • The South Australian Caloprymnus campestris represents a genus near akin to the last, but with the edge of the hairy border of the bare muzzle less emarginate in the middle line, still more swollen auditory bullae, very large and posterially expanded nasals and longer vacuities on the palate.

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  • The flowers are regular and symmetrical, having five sepals, tapering to a point and hairy on the margin, five petals which speedily fall, ten stamens, and a pistil bearing five distinct styles.

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  • The pioneers of the jute industry, who did not understand this necessity, or rather who did not know how the woody and brittle character of the fibre could be remedied, were greatly perplexed by the difficulties they had to encounter, the fibre spinning badly into a hard, rough and hairy yarn owing to the splitting and breaking of the fibre.

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  • The genus agrees with Dorcopsis in the direction of the hair on the neck, but the muzzle is only partially hairy, and the elongation of the penultimate premolar is less.

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  • The list is completed by Aepyprymnus rufescens, which differs from all the others by the hairy muzzle, and the absence of inflation in the auditory bullae and of vacuities in the palate.

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  • The female is of much smaller size, and more slender; and, though the general tone of the hairy parts of the body is the same, the prominences, furrows, and colouring of the face are much less marked.

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  • They have elongated hind-limbs and long hairy tails; and progress by leaps, in the same manner as jerboas, from which they differ in having five hind-toes.

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  • Like goats, sheep have narrow upper molar teeth, very different from those of the oxen, and narrow hairy muzzles.

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  • The long-legged hairy sheep, which stands a good deal taller than a Southdown, ranges, with a certain amount of local variation, from Lower Guinea to the Cape.

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  • Early in the 19th century the old Wiltshire white-faced horned sheep, with a scanty coat of hairy wool, and the Berkshire Knot, roamed over the downs of their native counties.

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  • Many mammals have a longer hairy coat in winter, which is shed as summer comes on; and some few, which inhabit countries covered in winter with snow, as the Arctic fox, variable hare and ermine, undergo a complete change of colour in the two seasons, being white in winter and grey or brown in summer.

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  • Wilfred the Hairy the Comes Vellosus, so called because his countship was poor and covered with scrub wood, and not because the palms of his hands were covered with hair as the legend has itbecame the founder of the counts of Barcelona.

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  • The shrunken hairy beige armadillo happily sniffed at the three-day old spam fritter.

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  • Hi again everyone, Janine, I had to laugh, congrats on the hairy armpits - crazy or what?

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  • Choose to be served by barmaids with no teeth and hairy noses.

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  • You need not in imagination adopt the hairy garments, or smear yourself with oil, or eat raw blubber.

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  • The flower's petals are enclosed by hairy green bracts.

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  • Cedric Gillings exhibited examples of the bulbous buttercup and for comparison, the much rarer hairy buttercup.

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  • Mechanical injury by hairy calyx can occur (Muenscher 1951 ).

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  • The black hairy caterpillar is quite a contrast to the clean cut lines of the adult.

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  • From here we head to Argyll with a stop to see hairy coos!

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  • Relay Race by David Yehudah, Bellflower, CA, USA These little hairy varmint critters never fail to amaze me.

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  • The skin with hair follicles, hairy skin, e.g. on the scalp, has a thin epidermis and many sebaceous glands.

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  • With a deep growl, I unfolded my massive, hairy body from the suddenly too-small bathroom.

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  • H by Heidi & Erin (aged 12) Heidi's habitat has hairy hags.

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  • One each, please, for the time being - could all get a bit hairy later.

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  • The upper surface is rough to the touch, the lower more softly hairy.

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  • From our vantage point on Munro three, the route looked pretty hairy!

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  • Only problem was that he had rather hairy legs.

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  • Due to the loss of feeling, I often missed or down shifted, which was very hairy at least.

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  • Comments C Keep your diaper on tight, it gets pretty hairy in here.

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  • Learn the basics so you can feel confident about your own abilities and to be able to rely on yourself when situations become hairy.

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  • A bit of T&A and a few hairy hippies was one thing, but dissing The Boss's Lad was in a different galaxy.

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  • They are rather variable as far as size and color go, but are generally quite hairy and closely resemble the honeybee.

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  • Hair A really bad housemate is a hairy housemate.

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  • The wood contains several scarce and locally distributed grasses, sedges and rushes including hairy woodrush, pendulous sedge and wood millet.

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  • Yet it still suited Chinese notions of self-esteem to perpetuate the myth of their own supremacy, and to picture barbarians as hairy monsters.

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  • So Bronagh steps up, bends over and puts the ball down on the tee giving everyone a flash of her hairy muff.

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  • Its leaves are narrowly ovate, up to 15cm (6in) long, bronze and slightly hairy when young.

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  • Tiarella cordifolia Vigorously spreading, hairy green leaves and dainty panicles or white flowers.

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  • They have two huge pincers at the front plus four hairy legs on either side.

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  • Are we to believe that these cravings and aspirations are derived from the " hairy quadruped with a tail and pointed ears "?

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  • Sadly, in no time at all, the two stoners are brutally slain by some unseen hairy monster.

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  • There are chapters on tying Hairy trout flies, salmon, sea trout and steelhead flies, and bass and pike bugs.

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  • Hairy stonecrop Sedum villosum occurs where scree is flushed by springs.

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  • After 5 years burial in soil, hairy tare seeds still retained 50% viability.

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  • Some routine grooming and a little added nutritional lubricant to your pet's diet will go a long way toward staving off a hairy situation.

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  • Some of the best-known dishes are Drunken Chicken, 1000-year-old eggs, hairy crab, and braised eel.

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  • Some girls start developing, and getting hairy legs well before their periods start.

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  • The outside consists of a thick, fibrous husk that surrounds a nut with a brittle hairy shell.

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  • Poolside contests such as a hairy chest, sexy leg, or belly flop competitions and team-oriented games including relays or Survivor-type challenges.

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  • The fronds are held very erect upon hairy stems, are soft in texture, and dry prettily in the autumn, when the tiny glands on the under surface give out a pleasing fragrance to which the plant owes its name of the Hay-scented Fern.

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  • Hairy considered the crystals to be only distorted cubic forms.

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  • In hares and pacas the inside of the cheeks is hairy; and in some species, pouched rats and hamsters, there are large internal cheek-pouches lined with hair, which open near the angles of the mouth and extend backwards behind the ears.

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  • The fibre and nibs have to be cleaned off by means of a gassing machine so constructed that the end of silk (silk yarn) is frictioned to throw off the nibs, and at the same time is run very rapidly through a gas flame a sufficient number of times to burn off the hairy and fibrous matter without injuring the main thread.

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  • Sheep of a peculiar breed with horizontal twisted horns and hairy coat are figured on.

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  • The muzzle is entirely hairy; the ears and tail are short; and the throat is maned.

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  • The hairy covering, so notable in the hive-bee and especially in humble-bees, is greatly reduced among bees that follow a parasitic mode of life.

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  • Hairy long-legged sheep are also met with in Persia, but are not pure-bred, being apparently the result of a cross between the long-legged Guinea breed and the fat-tailed Persian sheep.

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  • Although there are no means of ascertaining whether the extinct pigmy British sheep was clothed with hair or with wool, it is practically certain that some of the early European sheep retained hair like that of their wild ancestor; and there is accordingly no prima facie reason why the breed in question should not have been hairy.

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  • On the other hand, since the socalled peat-sheep of the prehistoric Swiss lake-dwellers appears to be represented by the existing Graubunden (Grisons) breed, which is woolly and coloured something like a Southdown, it may be argued that the former was probably also woolly, and hence that the survival of a hairy breed in a neighbouring part of Europe would be unlikely.

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  • Fat-rumped sheep, Ovis steatopyga, are common to Africa and Asia, and are piebald with rudimentary horns, and a short hairy coat, being bred entirely for their milk and flesh.

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  • The fashionable fleece is down to the ground, hairy and strong, and of uniform quality throughout.

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  • The principal and most obvious purpose of the hairy covering is to protect the skin.

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  • The more characteristic and useful birds include many species of the sparrow, such as the song, swamp, Lincoln's chipping and field sparrow; the bank, barn, cliff, white-bellied and rough-winged swallow, as well as the purple martin and the chimney swift; ten or more species of fly-catchers, including the least, arcadian, phoebe, wood pewee, olive-sided and king bird; about ten species of woodpeckers, of which the more common are the downy, hairy, yellowbellied and golden-winged (flicker); about thirty species of warblers, including the parula, cerulean, Blackburnian, prothonotary, yellow Nashville, red-start, worm-eating and chestnut-sided; and four or five species of vireos.

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  • There are two varieties of this species, the Port Moresby echidna and the hairy echidna.

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  • Among these may be mentioned the hairy frog of West Africa, Trichobatrachus robustus, some specimens of which have the sides of the body and of the hind limbs covered with long villosities, the function of which is unknown, and its ally Gampsosteonyx batesi, in which the last phalanx of the fingers and toes is sharp, claw-like and perforates the skin.

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  • The ovary is usually of a more or less spherical or curved form, sometimes smooth and uniform on its surface, at other times hairy and grooved.

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  • A number of hairy linear bracts enclose the whole; internal to these occur 12 to 20 crowded pinnate leaves (sporophylls), with their apical portions bent over towards the axis of the flower, the bases of the petioles being fused laterally into a disk surrounding the base of the conical receptacle.

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  • One of the interesting recent discoveries is that of the "hairy" frog (Trichobatrachus), in which the sides of the body and limbs are covered with long villosities, the function of which is still unknown (36).

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  • I love a guy with a hairy, muscular chest.

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  • Most asters have simple, linear to lance-shaped leaves, sometimes hairy and sometimes serrated.

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  • They are very silky hairy which provide the flower bud with some degree of protection in the depth of winter.

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  • It was Huge, hairy, and very slimy.

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  • This is generously wide but only marked two lane - overtaking can thus be hairy, especially southbound, up the hill.

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  • The cactus just explodes and about 150 dinner plate sized hairy spiders are flung from it, dispersing everywhere.

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  • The exposed pavements nearby have more typical species, including lesser meadow-rue, green spleenwort, wall lettuce and hairy stonecrop.

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  • It does perhaps appear somewhat spotty to the naked eye but under a lens is clearly seen to be very hairy or scaled.

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  • There is evidence that hairy tare was a weed of crops in the Iron Age.

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  • The early flowers starting to show on the short downland turf include Whitlow Grass and Hairy Violet.

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  • I ran over and pulled the sac open, and found a bound, battered, incredibly hairy, but alive baby yeti.

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  • Sminthopsis includes several very small species, with the same dental formula as Phascologale, but distinguished from that genus by the narrowness of the hind foot, in which the first toe is present, and the granulated or hairy (in place of broad, smooth and naked) soles.

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  • The great Swedish naturalist was possibly justified in treating the two latter creatures as quasihuman, for they seem to be grotesque exaggerations of such tailed and hairy human beings as really, though rarely, occur, and are apt to be exhibited as monstrosities (see Bastian and Hartmann, Zeitschrift fiir Ethnologie, Index, " Geschwanzte Menschen "; Gould and Pile, Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine, 1897).

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  • White-tailed Group, Subgenus Dorcelaphus or Odocoileus.- Antlers large and complex, with a sub-basal snag, and the lower prong more or less developed at the expense of the upper one; metatarsal gland usually present; tail long or moderate, and hairy below; face very long and narrow; the face-gland small, and the gland-pit in the skull of moderate extent; no upper canines; size generally large.

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  • In some mammals the hairy covering is partial and limited to particular regions; in others, as the hippopotamus and the sea-cows, or Sirenia, though scattered over the whole surface, it is extremely short and scanty; xvir.

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  • The culms are brown when ripe; the leaf-sheaths are hairy, and the petiole of the leaf is yellow.

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  • Africa, allied to Sparaxis and Tritonia, but having broader foliage, often hairy and plaited; they grow from 6 to 12 inches high, with spikes of sometimes sweetly-scented brilliant flowers ranging in color from blue to crimsonmagenta.

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  • It is a variable plant, but mostly reaches 12 to 18 inches in height, with pale green leaves, deeply cut, and hairy.

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  • The nodding flowers come during summer upon hairy stems of 6 to 12 inches, and are cup-shaped, 1 1/2 inches wide, and pale violet or purple with a large cluster of golden stamens.

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  • It makes a bold spreading mass of 2 to 3 feet, with hairy green or purple stems, and long green leaves which are rough on the upper side and hoary beneath; flowers violet-purple, from July to September.

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  • A. montana (Mountain Tobacco) is a European plant about 12 inches high, with smooth, lance-shaped leaves and yellow flowers 2 inches across in summer, the blooms gathered into threes and fours on hairy stems.

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  • Lophospermum - L. scandens is a tender climber with long slender stems, pale green hairy leaves, and large pink flowers.

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  • Named Hybrids Rupifragum - Little hairy plants like a perennial Shirley Poppy, of delicate appearance, 1 to 2 feet high, with a neat habit, and useful for cutting.

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  • R. scabrifolium is a pretty little plant, never growing high, with rosy flowers and hairy leaves and stems.

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  • The leaves are very small and numerously produced on the sub-prostrate branches, and are hairy at the margin.

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  • They are easily obtained from nurseries, and are well suited for the large rock garden, where they attain, in deep peat soil, a height of about 18 inches, with red flowers from June to August, hirsutum having hairy leaves and stems.

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  • Lobbii, from California, with very pretty purple and white flowers like a little Fuchsia, followed by small hairy fruits of agreeable flavor.

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  • The leaves are long and narrowed into a petiole, and are softly hairy on both surfaces.

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  • The leaves are of rather different shape and less hairy than those of the lowland tree; the flowers are fully a third larger, and the fruit is nearly twice as large.

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  • S. Hofmanni, from Bosnia, is considerably taller than the others, with large white flowers and hairy leaves.

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  • Its broad hairy leaves are a pretty bronze or purple color while young, and the hairy stems of 9 to 12 inches carry long-stemmed rosy-purple buds opening as blue and white flowers.

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  • The leaves vary much in size even on the same twig, being 3 to 5 inches long, tapering to a point, 1 1/4 to 2 1/2 inches wide, slightly hairy on both sides, and edged with coarse sharp teeth.

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  • The stems are slender and can either be finely hairy or smooth and a darker brown or black color.

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  • Contrary to popular myth, masturbation does not make the palms hairy or cause blindness or genital shrinkage.

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  • They are mostly flat, but some are raised, bumpy, and hairy.

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  • At the time, David Hasselhoff's Speedo was the perfect accent to his hairy chest and overt sexuality.

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  • While there are those who appreciate hairy men, the look of extreme swimwear is such that smooth skin is demanded.

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  • For centuries, people have been reporting sightings of large, hairy humanoid creatures roaming some of the more remote wilderness areas of North America.

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  • A woman driving near Delavan, WI (about 35 miles from the site of the 1936 Shackelman sighting) reported seeing a dark, hairy creature running towards her and leaping onto her trunk.

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  • On a similar note, you could also swap the snake for a nice hairy tarantula, and perhaps a web strung across an empty socket.

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  • Metallic yarns or yarns with bits of foil also lend themselves to robots; however, furry or hairy yarns with metallic elements will not be as effective as smooth yarn with no pile.

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  • Just make sure to select a hook size that gives you tight crochet stitches so that the stuffing does not show or work out through the stitches.Fuzzy or hairy yarns make long-haired canines.

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  • The big bad wolf threatening the three little pigs and the hairy spider frightening little Miss Muffet are just two examples of brutal and horrifying elements that exist in many of our beloved children's stories.

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  • A New York Times bestseller, Patricia Briggs breathes life into the wonderful and intricate world of werewolves in America, the coyote who lives among them and the wild and somewhat hairy adventures that Mercy gets herself into.

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  • The Hobbits are a small people, known for their peaceful ways, closeness to the earth and rather large, hairy feet.

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  • Cuts located in hairy areas may cause you pain when you try to remove them.

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  • Wooden coffins, with skeletons wrapped in coarse hairy cloth, and both pagan and Christian tombstones with runic inscriptions have been found.

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  • In hot dry districts such as Arabia and north-east tropical Africa, genera have been developed with a low, much-branched, dense, shrubby habit, with small hairy leaves and very small flowers.

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  • The muzzle is narrow and hairy; and when faceglands are present these are small and insignificant; while the tail is short and flattened.

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  • In the male flowers, which are numerous, the stamens are sixteen in number and arranged in pairs; the female flowers are solitary, with traces of stamens, and a smooth ovary with one ovule in each of the eight cells - the ovary is surmounted by four styles, which are hairy at the base.

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  • It is in northern Siberia that its remains have erect position, with the soft parts and hairy covering entire, have been brought to light.

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  • The Sapygidae are parasitic on bees, while the Scoliidae are large, robust and hairy insects, many of which prey upon the grubs of chafers.

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  • The best - known is Acanthus mollis (brankursine, or bears' breech), a common species throughout the Mediterranean region, having large, deeply cut, hairy, shining leaves.

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  • In the Sciuridae the two main bones (tibia and fibula) of the lower half of the leg are quite separate, the tail is round and hairy, and the habits are arboreal and terrestrial.

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  • These are for the most part large antelopes, with long cylindrical horns, which are present in both sexes, hairy muzzles, no face-glands, long tufted tails and tall thick molars of the ox-type.

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  • The subfamily is characterized by the narrow crowns of the molars, which are similar to those of sheep, and' the hairy muzzle.

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  • From all the preceding the tiny dik-diks (Madoqua) of NorthEast Africa differ by their hairy noses, expanded in some species into short trunks; while the widely spread klipspringer, Oreotragus saltator, with its several local races, is unfailingly distinguishable by its rounded blunt hoofs and thick, brittle, golden-flecked hair.

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  • All these are large and generally more or less uniformly coloured antelopes with horns in both sexes, long and more or less hairy tails, high withers, small face-glands, naked muzzles, tall, narrow upper molars, and the absence of pits in the frontal bones.

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  • Many galls are brightly coloured, as, for instance, the oak-leaf hairy galls of Spathegaster tricolor, which are of a crimson hue, more or less diffused according to exposure to light.

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  • The species are numerous, and are distinguished one from another by the scales of the bulb being woolly or smooth on the inner surface, by the character of the flower-stalks, by the filaments being hairy or otherwise, and by other characters.

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  • The hairy covering of the body varies under different conditions of climate, but when best developed, as in the European wild boar, consists of long stiff bristles, abundant on the back and sides, and of a close softer curling under-coat.

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  • Structurally the Neuroptera are distinguished by elongate feelers, a large, free prothorax, a labium with the inner lobes of the second maxillae fused together to form a median ligula, membranous, net-veined wings without hairy covering, those of the two pairs being usually alike, the absence of abdominal cerci, and the presence of six or eight Malpighian tubes.

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  • The family Phryganeidae have males with foursegmented hairy palps; the larvae inhabit stagnant water and make cases of vegetable fragments.

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  • The mouth is divided into two cavities communicating by a narrow orifice, the anterior one containing the incisors and the posterior the molars, the hairy skin of the face being continued inwards behind the incisors.

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  • Dormice a r e small arboreal rodents, with long hairy tails, large eyes and ears, and short fore-limbs, ranging over Europe, Asia and Africa.

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  • Within these are six stamens, a hairy ovary surmounted by two feathery styles which ripens into the fruit (grain), and which is invested by the husk formed by the persistent glume and pale.

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  • The same explanation no doubt applies to the mimicry, both in Borneo and South Africa, of hairy bees of the family Xylocopidae by Asilid flies of the genus Hyperechia, and also to other cases of mimicry of Hymenoptera as well as of inedible beetles of the family Lycidae by Diptera.

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  • Males have a pair of dagger-shaped horns on the forehead, the tips of which, in some cases at any rate, perforate the hairy skin with which the rest of the horns are covered.

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  • Prominent among a great variety of song-birds and insectivorous birds are the robin, blue bird, cat bird, sparrows, meadow-lark, bobolink, thrushes, chickadee, wrens, brown thrasher, gold finch, cedar wax-wing, flycatchers, nuthatches, flicker (golden-winged woodpecker), downy and hairy woodpeckers, rose-breasted grosbeak, Baltimore oriole, barnswallow, chimney swift, purple martin, purple finch (linnet), vireos and several species of warblers.

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  • Although in the case of the majority of Diptera the body is more or less clothed with hair, the hairy covering is usually so short that to the unaided eye the insects appear almost bare; some forms, however, such as the bee-flies (Bombylius) and certain robber-flies (Asilidae) are conspicuously hairy.

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  • Other noteworthy peaks are Black Brother (6690 ft.) and Hairy Bear (6681 ft.), the next highest mountains.

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  • The nature of the integument and its hairy clothing in all spiders enables them to be plunged under water and withdrawn perfectly dry, and many species, even as large as the common English house-spider (Tegenaria), are so lightly built that they can run with speed over the surface of standing water, and this faculty has been perfected in genera like Pirata, Dolomedes and Triclaria, which are always found in the vicinity of lakes or on the edges of rivers and streams, readily taking to the water or running down the stems of water plants beneath its surface when pursued.

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  • For instance, the names which they give to certain fruits, such as the duri-an, the rambut-an and the pulas-an, which are indigenous in the Malayan countries, and are not found elsewhere, are all compound words meaning respectively the thorny, the hairy and the twisted fruit.

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  • The English setter should have a silky coat with the hair waved but not curly; the legs and toes should be hairy, and the tail should have a bushy fringe of hairs hanging down from the dorsal border.

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  • On the other are such figures as the Hebrew prophets, distinguished by their hairy garment and by their denunciation of the luxury of both sexes.

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  • The antennae, usually bottle-brush shaped (plumose) in the male sex, are less hairy in the female.

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  • Folded Yarns are hairy after being spun and folded, and in addition sometimes contain nibs and rough places.

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  • The black, hairy, snub-nosed face of Vaska Denisov, and his whole short sturdy figure with the sinewy hairy hand and stumpy fingers in which he held the hilt of his naked saber, looked just as it usually did, especially toward evening when he had emptied his second bottle; he was only redder than usual.

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  • Oh, how Rostov detested at that moment those hands with their short reddish fingers and hairy wrists, which held him in their power....

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  • A deep saucer of black blood was taken from his hairy arm and only then was he able to relate what had happened to him.

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  • His sleeves were rolled up and his sinewy, hairy, red hands with their short fingers deftly turned the ramrod.

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  • Australia and Tasmania possess two animals of this order - the echidna, or spiny ant-eater (hairy in Tasmania), and the Platypus anatinus, the duckbilled water mole, otherwise named the Ornithorhynchus paradoxus.

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  • The gizzard of various birds which are addicted to eating hairy caterpillars, e.g.

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  • The "` bacon beetle" (Dermestes lardarius), and its hard hairy larva, are well known.

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  • In the European species of Sitaris and Meloe these little larvae have the instinct of clinging to any hairy object.

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  • Hairy covering scanty.

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  • The Siberian roe (C. pygargus), which is common in the Altai, is larger and paler than the type species, with shorter and more hairy ears, a larger white rump-patch, and small irregular snags on the inner border of the antlers.

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  • I'm not going on blind dates or being hooked up with hairy alpha males.

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  • The muzzle is hairy, the ears are of moderate size, and the tail is short, and partially buried among the long hair of the rump. There are no glands on the face; but there is a large globular one at the base of each horn of the size of half a small orange..

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