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The portion of a bird's head found between the forehead —demarcated by an imaginary line drawn from the anterior corners of the eyes—and through the "remainder of the upper part of the head", to the superciliary line. The occiput or hindhead, is the posterior part of the crown. [133] cryptic plumage Also defined: phaneric plumage.
Termatosaurus ("End Lizard", due to its appearance in the End Triassic) is a potentially dubious [1] genus of archosaur known from several tooth specimens. Its remains come from the Upper Triassic of France, England, Germany and Switzerland.
Only one petal is fully developed and is up to 3 cm (1.2 in) long; it is initially white and turns pink or red with age. The fruit is a rather flat woody pod measuring between 10–28 cm (3.9–11.0 in) long and 4–8 cm (1.6–3.1 in) broad, with up to 8 disc-shaped seeds about 3 cm (1.2 in) diameter and 1 cm (0.39 in) thick.
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[3] 2. (With oars) to push against the water with the oar in the opposite direction than normally used for moving the boat forward. This is used to slow the speed of the boat, or to move astern when manoeuvring. [3] back and fill A method of keeping a square-rigged vessel under control while drifting with the tide along a narrow channel.
Haddock thought that Wright's suggestion of 20 to 40 (average 30) cubic feet per acre (1.4 m 3 /ha to 2.8 m 3 /ha (average 2.1 m 3 /ha) per year was more reasonable, but still somewhat optimistic. The principal way forest resource managers influence growth and yield is to manipulate the mixture of species and number (density) and distribution ...
Tenontosaurus (/ t ɪ ˌ n ɒ n t ə ˈ s ɔːr ə s / ti-NON-tə-SOR-əs; lit. ' sinew lizard ') is a genus of iguanodontian ornithopod dinosaur.It had an unusually long, broad tail, which like its back was stiffened with a network of bony tendons.