[1565–75; orig. uncertain; perhaps continuing Old Englishpādcovering, cloak, the socket being thought of as something that conceals (though the phonology is irregular)] pod- a combining form meaning “foot”:podiatry. Also,esp. before a consonant,podo-. ...
noun(Zoöl.)A considerable number of animals closely clustered together; -- said of seals. nounan auger or bit the channel of which is straight instead of twisted. fromWiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. nounbotanyaseedcase for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers) ...
Considering that a school of fish is a group of the aquatic animals swimming together in the same direction and that a school on land is a place of learning at which a class of students are grouped together to learn and move forward in their education, it really isn't all that surprising...
The order is composed of four families: (1) Diomedeidea (albatrosses and mollymawks), (2) Procellaridae (petrels and shearwaters), (3) Hydrobatidae (storm petrels), and (4) Pelecanoidea (diving petrels). On the basis of recent molecular data, the Pelecanoidea, which consists of ...
The high altitude regions are shaded and may be taken as a guide to the distribu- tion of the species, which is generally XO. Most populations come from the FIG. I .—A cell in 1st meiotic metaphase in an XO male with a large B chromosome. Fm. 2.—A 1st rneiotic metaphase in ...
Rudyard Kipling brought this animal to greater worldwide prominence in his short story “The Beginning of the Armadillos” from his 1902 children’s book Just So Stories, in which it was featured as a symbol for cleverness. A group of gigantic armadillos with spiky club-shaped tails once ...
Tikvara Nature Park (TNP) has significant tourist potential for the development of specific and sustainable forms of tourism because it has direct contact with the Danube River, which forms the Upper Danube Region. This nature park has a significant forested area, inhabited by rare species of ...
and they coalesce with one another. The pseudopodia of sun animalcules contain a solid, elastic axial filament (axopodium), which is responsible for the flexibility and constancy of the shape of the organisms. The pseudopodia are usually digitiform or lobed in the amoeboid cells of multicellular...
What is the cost of convenience and progress? It’s a question at the heart of many science fiction movies, including the new film from writer/director Sophie Barthes,“The Pod Generation,” which recently won the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.In her...
(McFadien-Carter 1979). The narrow end of the shell often protrudes above the mud or sand in which the animal lives. Seaphopods are gonochoric, but hermaphroditic individuals ofDentaliumSp, are occasionally found (McFadien-Carter 1979). Fertilization is external; gametes are released either ...