10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THUMBLIKE»
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Damselflies of Alberta: Flying Neon Toothpicks in the Grass
(from 19) Do the upper claspers, when viewed from the side, look like mittens,
with a thumblike projection? Then it is the northern bluet, Enallagma cyathigerum
. Or is the thumblike projection absent, or very small and not at all obvious? Then
it ...
2
Aquatic Insects of California: With Keys to North American ...
Sacculus of valva with thumblike process set with setae; distal end of sacculus
with projecting tuft of hairs; apex of valva broadly falcate Oligostigna Guenee,
1854 — Sacculus of valva usually with 1 or 2 small setiferous, papillalike
processes6; ...
Robert Leslie Usinger, 1956
3
Manual of Central American Diptera
Tlalocomyia Wygodzinsky & Díaz-Nájera Basitarus of hind leg with pedisulcus
deep and conspicuous; claws of female toothless (Fig. 5), or each with small
subbasal tooth or large thumblike lobe (Fig. 4); wing without basal medial cell;
radius ...
4
Aspects of Early Viṣṇuism
Admitting the occurrence of the thumblike soul in other texts 8) — the soul has,
among various peoples, indeed often been thought of as a being like the phallos
or as great as a thumb9) — I fail to see how this interpretation can be founded on
...
5
Animals, Grades 1 - 3: Canadian Edition
Pandas have a special thumblike toe on their front feet used for holding bamboo
stems. Their teeth are large and wide to help them grind up the bamboo. Think
and Learn 1. Scientists now classify the giant panda as a 2. Where do giant ...
Carson-Dellosa Publishing, 2013
6
Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Southeastern United States: ...
0 Uppermost axillary bud thumblike in shape; flowers and fruits on short shoots of
the current season; corolla lobes 5, rarely 6 or 7; fruit a 3-valved, irregularly
dehiscent, subglobose capsule, the floral tube adherent to about its lower third.
Robert K. Godfrey, Jean W. Wooten, 2011
Innermost toe of each hind foot thumblike, opposable and without claw; tail long,
nearly naked and capable of grasping; female with pouch on belly Order
MARSUPIALIA (opossum), page 42 Innermost toe of each hind foot not thumblike
and ...
John A. Sealander, Gary A. Heidt
In apes the footis formed almost exactlylike ourhand,with a large thumblike great
toe quite freefrom theother toes, and so articulatedasto be opposable tothem;
forming with the long fingerlike toes a perfect graspinghand. The sole cannot be ...
Alfred Russel Wallace, 2004
9
Encyclopedia of Insects
It also is expressed dramatically in certain sucking lice in which the claw folds
against a thumblike, spinose process of the enlarged tibia. Flies that feed on the
blood of birds typically have a thumblike lobe at the base of each of their talonlike
...
Vincent H. Resh, Ring T. Cardé, 2003
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A revision of the Neotropical species of the genus Chimarra, ...
The inferior appendages of C. peineta are similar to those of C. viUalobosi and C.
pollex in having the dorsal thumblike processes tightly curled. They differ from the
former in that the dorsal thumblike processes are even more strongly flexed ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THUMBLIKE»
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Extra Digits: Mole's Thumblike Wristbone Helps Tackle Tunneling
Most animals with paws have a similar hand shape, with five fingers, or claws, on each. One big exception to this rule is the mole, which has an extra thumb on ... «LiveScience.com, Jul 11»
