"substance" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- But instead of smooth green skin, they were covered in a glittering horny substance, here black, here pink.
- The outermost layer of the shell is known as the periostracum, which is composed of a horny organic substance.
- The body was covered with plates of a horny substance, the head a round bead with four feathery antennae.
- Martell had a clear though momentary glimpse: two wheels of some horny substance, mottled orange and yellow, linked by a box-like inner structure.
- The suborder Holaxonia skeletons are formed from a flexible, horny substance called gorgonin.
- Actually, they consist of many fibers of keratin, the horny substance that makes up the nails of people.
- The tentacles were at least twenty feet long and tipped with a horny substance which must have been steel-hard considering the damage the being had caused.
- The body armour of these creatures was constructed partly of lime and partly of a horny substance called chitin.
- The tentacles are each at least twenty feet long and tipped with a horny substance which must be steel-hard.
- The great ridges of horny substance over the eyes came down in a surprisingly human scowl.
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