How To Use protrusible In A Sentence
- She eats bugs & catches them by sight, smell or by tasting them with her protrusible, deeply forked tongue. Autotomous Penes & Endless War
- And new discoveries, like rotational feeding, maternal dermatophagy, protrusible eyes and hydrostatic locomotion, have brought caecilians to the widespread attention of biologists. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
- As soon as the whiskers pass over food, the protrusible mouth drops down with an elevator-like motion and rapidly sucks in its meal.
- Therefore, many fish with protrusible jaws have a second set of jaws in the throat, termed pharyngeal jaws, that process food and free the outer jaw to continue feeding.
- The protrusible tongue, ending in a sticky club, can be shot out for about seven inches in the common chameleon. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told
- Body more or less flask-shape, two or three times as long as broad, with conical apex, which is slightly elastic and protrusible; surface obliquely striate, with well-defined lines, 14 to 16 in number; cilia uniform on the body, with a crown of longer ones at the base of the conical proboscis. Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901
- This is typically a protrusible penis-like structure that may be armed with hooks. Platyhelminthes
- The sloth bear's long muzzle has protrusible lips and nostrils which it can close - these two features allow it to create a vacuum tube to suck up the termites.
- In case you don't know, caecilians have sensory tentacles, sometimes have protrusible eyes, sometimes lack eyes entirely, often exhibit sophisticated parental care [maternal skin-feeding is going on in the middle image above], are incredibly long-bodied yet often lack tails, sometimes possess large, anatomically complex, eversible male sexual organs, and so on and so forth. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
- Echidnas have long, protrusible, mucous-covered tongues that aid in the capture of prey.
