"vertical" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The adults lay their eggs in vertical burrows in the soil beneath carcasses.
- Changes from Skolithos-dominated facies to wide diversity and abundance, including vertical and horizontal burrows, and huge arthropod trackways.
- This species excavates elaborate vertical burrows up to 90 cm long in the sea bed.
- They inhabit vertical burrows in these soft sediments with the anterior end facing up and slightly exposed at the sediment surface.
- A few centimeters below its thin, wafer-like door, the vertical burrow narrows abruptly.
- They use this to clog the entrance of their 7 to 15 cm deep vertical burrows when threatened, a phenomenon called phragmosis.
- The vertical burrows indicate that worm-like animals acquired new behaviours, and possibly new physical capabilities.
- It excavates short, vertical burrows in sandy substrate once the prey has been caught.
- They feed, mostly on seeds, at night and shelter in deep vertical burrows.
- Eggs hatch in mid-August, and the larvae dig vertical burrows where they secure themselves using hooks along their abdomen.
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