"backwards" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The head has a dark fringe of hair on the cheeks directed backwards to the ears.
- All the spines are a little bent, and have their points directed backwards towards the oesophageal opening.
- Nuchal crest large, its spines falciform and directed backwards, the longest about as long as the diameter of the orbit; some rows of smaller spines at the base.
- The cephalic angle carries a slender spine of almost equal length as the glabella, directed backwards and outwards at about 45 .
- The zoea larvae bear "exceptionally long" spines on the carapace, one directed forwards, and two directed backwards.
- As a rule, snakes have simple teeth, all roughly the same shape, long, pointed and directed backwards when the mouth is closed.
- The mouthparts comprise a labrum, directed backwards over the mouth and pairs of mandibles, paragnatha, maxillules and vestigial maxillae.
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