corneous


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Synonyms for corneous

made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn)

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The ground colour ranges from a pale yellowish white to a deeper pinkish or orangebrown; in fresh specimens this is overlain by a fine, irregular whitish mottling, which is in turn overlain by a thin, rather glossy, corneous periostracum.
The shell is corneous or whitish and lacks other pigmentation.
Median lobes of pseudepiphallus not separated from the pseudepiphallic sclerite, shaped as two corneous lobes Strogulomorpha Desutter 4A- Male forewing longer than pronotum, covering one third the abdominal length, its posterior margin with a characteristic arrowhead-shaped projection.
Cell fragments, corneous plates and secretion from the sebum may also be found (Montalti et al., 2001).
All its present members share a petal claw adherant to the base of the staminal filament tube for 0.8-3.0 mm in length combined with a capsule possessing a hardened endocarp, that is osseous or corneous, interiorly, present only at the capsule apex, and not found below 1 mm in length from the apex.
It was an ordinary bird: hardly a bearded eagle with lapis lazuli plumage; when he leaned toward me, certain I had no documents, which was enough excuse for him to take me in a rapid flight to the big central cage, I observed his complexion: his dull skin, greenish, olive, covered with enormous black pores, open like cesspools; through those pores you could see the swamp of his flesh, smelly and coarse, like the undertow at the bottom of a dirty lake; his eyes were black, very close together, with malignant brightness but without depth; his beak hard and corneous, stony and falconine; the smell of his feathers disgusting and nauseating; they smelled like old and rancid oil kept in a barrel, like old grease used for tools, and like the tar that coats the waters around a ship's bow.
Its skull bore a long crest formed by closely connected nasal bones, its jaws were covered by a beak-like corneous case, and its (more than 1,000!) teeth formed dense vertical rows and were used to grind their plant food.
Sex was determined by the everted lateral black vocal sacs and conspicuous corneous nuptial pads on the first finger.
The differentiation also led to an even, stratified layer that was positive for filaggrin, which is essential for the corneous layer (Mildner et al., 2010).
Third to fifth pereopods moderately stout, notably decreasing in length from third to fifth; dactyli subconical, 0.4-0.5 length of propodi, each terminating in strong, curved corneous unguis, flexor surfaces with numerous slender corneous spinules arranged in three or four rows (Fig.
When the dermal tissue samples were stained by Mallory trichrome, the epithelial tissue and corneous layer showed a better preservation when fixed in microwave oven.
The AHI is a measure of the endosperm texture and refers to the relative proportion of hard (corneous) to soft (floury) endosperm.