"long" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- While the thorax got the wings, a long abdomen could have served as a stabilizer in flight.
- Both males and females have a shiny black thorax and abdomen less than one millimetre long.
- They are known for their habit of raising their long abdomen and opening their jaws, like a threatened scorpion.
- The shape is generally elongated, due to the conformation of the long tapering abdomen, however there are also compact species with broad abdomens.
- The mantis had almost entirely forced its way in, and was pulling its long abdomen and back legs through the gap.
- The long, slender abdomen is soft and bears only hooked chaetae.
- Shrimp are swimming crustaceans with long narrow muscular abdomens and long antennae.
- The bodies and legs of the adults are usually elongate, and these flies often have relatively long abdomens.
- The damselfly's long and slender abdomen is black in colour with blue rings.
- The female has a very long abdomen, which extends far beyond the wingtips at rest.
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