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Example sentences for "less distinct"

  • All these rocks betray their aqueous origin by the presence of more or less distinct lines of bedding.

  • For they may all be described as granular non-crystalline rocks, the constituent ingredients of which have been more or less rounded, and arranged in more or less distinct layers, by the action of water.

  • The hind margin of the hind wings has a row of spots, more or less distinct, and much more prominent in the female than in the male.

  • The first point that strikes our notice is the division of its body into segments or rings, separated from each other by a more or less distinct line or slight constriction of the body.

  • If you examine a number of British butterflies you will observe that in nearly all species the wings are bordered by a fringe of hair, more or less distinct.

  • Such occasions lose their distinctive religious significance in proportion as the events they commemorate recede into the past and become less and less distinct.

  • Such definite embodiment is, however, rare in religious history, probably, as is suggested above, because it involves a large generalization and a more or less distinct symbolism.

  • The brownish red of abdomen very fiery with irregular and less distinct bands.

  • All the wings vary from very pale brown to rather dull purplish-brown; there are numerous jagged, darker, transverse lines forming several more or less distinct bands.

  • In young individuals the white of the lower parts is less distinct, sometimes very pale brownish.

  • The male has greyish brown fore wings, which are crossed by rather darker lines, and a dark, more or less distinct, central band (ab.

  • The fore wings are greyish, inclining to whitish or to brownish, with two white-edged oblique bands, which in the lighter coloured specimens are broad and show up conspicuously, but in the darker are narrower and much less distinct.

  • Seeds not so broad as the partition, in two more or less distinct rows in each cell, at least when young; strict and very leafy-stemmed biennials; cauline leaves partly clasping by a sagittate base.

  • Stamens 12, with more or less distinct filaments, their tips usually continued beyond the anther into a point.

  • Stamens 12, with more or less distinct filaments.

  • In this stage also there remains almost always on the three to six front segments, a more or less distinct residue of the subdorsal, which extends backwards from the head as a whitish line intersecting the foremost oblique stripes.

  • Fructification of sporangia more or less distinct.

  • The lines of fruiting tend to follow the venation of the supporting leaf; where the sporangium is round, the columella is a distinct rounded or cake-like body; where the fruit is venulose, the columella is less distinct.

  • In habitat, however, it seems no less distinct, being found always (?

  • Although a more or less distinct network is present in most nuclei (I have found it in almost all embryonic nuclei) it is not universally so.

  • Brown, or cream-colour, with brown spots forming more or less distinct cross-bars.

  • On the outer margins of the wings in some specimens there are more or less distinct traces of blackish crescents.

  • The two fine female specimens figured on the plate have a more or less distinct wedge-shaped black spot in the basal end of the discal cell of the fore wings.

  • The male has a pale sexual mark at the end of the cell of the fore wings, but this is less distinct than in the following species.

  • It was also used by his son, Johann Schott, about 1541, the same printer using seven or eight other Marks, all more or less distinct, at different periods.

  • Rembolt, who succeeded Gering and preserved the sign of his office, was one of the earliest, if not the first to adopt a Mark, of which indeed he used four more or less distinct examples.

  • More or less distinct traces of these markings are preserved in adult specimens.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    call thee; documentary evidence; first introduced; left foot; less closely; less common; less complete; less completely; less conspicuous; less curved; less depressed; less differentiated; less distinctly; less flattened; less frequently; less general; less marked; less regular; less white; lesse then; lesser extent; old friend; should seeme; superior numbers; understand things; will try