Anatomical structure in springtail insects.
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Examples for "furcula"
Examples for "furcula"
1In a pouter, the furcula had not been lengthened proportionally with the increased length of the body.
2Although the method was meant to simply stun the furcula, the force of the electricity could cause enormous pain.
3Working primarily with bones of the shoulder girdle, he found a putative homologue of the furcula (wishbone) in birds.
4If placed over the furcula of an angel, and the shot directed into the solar plexus, the creature would be stunned for hours.
5In a barb, which in all its measurements was a little larger than the same rock-pigeon, the furcula was a quarter of an inch shorter.
1Far away over the Furka ridge a pallid glow preludes the rising of the moon.
2Its proximity to the Furka Pass road makes it easily accessible, and popular with tourists.
3On July 22 they drove across the Furka Pass and went down by rail to Lucerne.
4He had walked round over the Furka Pass, had been on foot four or five days.
5Lepontine Alps (from the Simplon to the Splugen and south of the Furka and Oberalp Passes).
6So he had come over the Rhône Glacier across the Furka and down from Andermatt to the Lake.
7On the way across the Rhine glacier to the Furka, he felt the half-suggestive, half-distressing sense of mountain loneliness:
8Bernese Oberland (from the Lake of Geneva to the Furka, the Reuss Valley and the Lake of Lucerne).
9This year's commemorative Swiss coins included the 50th anniversary of the moon landings, the Furka Pass and the roe deer.
10But then, when he reached his Furka, only to walk along the ridge and to descend on the same side!
11I looked down the direction of the Furka, and thought of my tired Englishman from Streatham, who would be on his way home.
12A lake of melted ice is pictured at the bottom of the Rhone Glacier in Furka, Switzerland, September 13, 2018.