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He has a great eye for detail, but he also has a touch of the epiphenomenal imbroglios: "we listened to the muffled crepitations coming from inside"; eyebrows "plicate" foreheads.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 14, 2012
The inescapable laws of biology soon com plicate Belinda's problem.
From Time Magazine Archive
P. 1-1.5 cm. subumbilicate, at length plicate, pale yellow-brown then whitish; g. broadly adnate, simple, unequal, distant; s. 2-3 cm. floccose or scurfy, reddish-brown; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
P. 4-7 mm. umbilicate, plicate, whitish or disc slightly tinged; g. attached to a free collar encircling the stem; s. 2-4 cm. glabrous, blackish, shining; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
Aside from differences in scutellation, Leimadophis, Siphlophis, and Trypanurgos have the heads of the hemipenes terminating in a disc, and Ialtris has a plicate hemipenis.
From Systematic Status of the Colubrid Snake, Leptodeira discolor Gunther by William E. Duellman
The demands of more legible structure and more com plicated feeling drew Matisse away from the style he had largely invented.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the midst of these movements remarkable changes are produced upon the rocks of the crust; they are plicated, fractured, crushed, rendered crystalline and even fused.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
At the base, for some 800 ft., there is a complex of crystalline rocks of early geological age, consisting of gneiss, schist, slate and other rocks, greatly plicated and traversed by dikes and granite intrusions.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
In the other type the solid crust has been plicated, corrugated and dislocated, especially along particular lines, and has attained its most stupendous disruption in lofty chains of mountains.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
The structure of a great mountain-chain such as the Alps proves that the crust of the earth has been intensely plicated, crumpled and fractured.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
All the plicating and muffled crepitations do jar a little with a band who featured in their line-up a man who kept time by repeatedly hitting himself over the head with a metal beer tray.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 14, 2012
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