pouter

How To Use pouter In A Sentence

• What comes next is the matador and he approaches with his tight-assed, pouter-pigeon walk, flaunting his coleto, the pigtail that is the professional mark of a torero who has taken his alternativa and is no longer a novillero. There is no such thing as a bullfight
• Perhaps the first pouter-pigeon did not inflate its crop much more than the turbit now does the upper part of its œsophagus, —a habit which is disregarded by all fanciers, as it is not one of the points of the breed. I. Variation under Domestication. Unconscious Selection
• She was a pouter, a thrower of chess pieces, a disengager. Letters Home
• Some other sapotes belong to the related genus Pouteria.
• If you still prefer the soil-less method, I would encourage you to invest in a spouter that has multiple layers and trays with drainage holes.
• That same writer doesn't care how a spouter of pure hate chooses to represent himself.
• These now include banana, coconut (Cocos nucifera), sweet potatoes, mango (Mangifera indica), chico (Pouteria sapota), yams, taro, millet, watermelon, and citrus and pineapples on more fertile islands. Maldives-Lakshadweep-Chagos Archipelago tropical moist forests
• The valley is also known for the huge variety of native and introduced tropical fruits: Achras sapota, Manilkara achras, Chrysophyllum caimito, Pouteria cainito, Persea americana, Mammea americana, Anacardium occidentale, Carica papaya, Annona muricata, Manguifera indica and more. Sinú Valley dry forests
• The processes at the summit of the _coracoid_, which receive the extremities of the furcula, form a more perfect cavity in some tumblers than in the rock-pigeon: in pouters these processes are larger and differently shaped, and the exterior angle of the extremity of the coracoid, which is articulated to the sternum, is squarer. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.
• But the fact of the rapidly increasing difficulty found in producing by ever such careful selection, any further extreme in some charge already carried very far (such as the tail of the "fan-tailed pigeon" or the crop of the "pouter"), is certainly, so far as it goes, on the side of the {117} existence of definite limits to variability. On the Genesis of Species