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Example sentences for "quite distinct"

  • This insect, though in most respects related to the Neuroptera, appears to connect, as is so often the case with very ancient forms, the two Orders of the Neuroptera and Orthoptera which are now generally ranked as quite distinct.

  • America belonging to quite distinct families, resembled the Heliconidae so closely in every stripe and shade of colour that they could not be distinguished except by an experienced entomologist.

  • On the other hand, the tortoise-shell colour of the hair, which is confined to female cats, is quite distinct at birth, and this case violates our rule.

  • Of course the success of any species of bee may be dependent on the number of its parasites or other enemies, or on quite distinct causes, and so be altogether independent of the quantity of honey which the bees could collect.

  • In all cases the four sutures are quite distinct, from top to bottom, on the internal lamina of the shell, and generally they run through the whole thickness of the walls, and are visible externally.

  • The parietes are permeated by quite distinct pores,--a character sufficient by itself to separate this from the following species; the longitudinal septa forming the tubes are slightly denticulated at their bases.

  • Beautiful plants of vigorous habit, with large handsome flowers, of a fine golden colour, like those of the buttercups, but turning inwards so as to form an almost round blossom, quite distinct in aspect.

  • Dwarf Alpine plants, with purplish flowers, quite distinct in aspect and hue from anything else grown in our gardens, and never perishing from any cause, except being overrun by coarser subjects.

  • Like most of the early mammals, these ungulates had forty-four teeth, the molars with short crowns and quite distinct in form from the premolars.

  • America belonging to quite distinct families, resembled the Heliconidae so closely in every stripe and shade of colour, that they could not be distinguished save by an experienced entomologist.

  • Other animals, belonging to quite distinct classes, are either habitually or occasionally capable of breeding before they have fully acquired their adult characters.

  • Hyomoschus, also, offers one of those interesting cases of a form linking together two groups, for it is intermediate in certain osteological characters between the pachyderms and ruminants, which were formerly thought to be quite distinct.

  • On the other hand, the tortoise- shell colour, which is confined to female cats, is quite distinct at birth, and this case violates the rule.

  • Leaves remarkably glaucous, not tall, but of good substance,--quite distinct in these respects from the Small or the Large sort.

  • They are, however, quite distinct, and, when pure, very beautiful.

  • The variety is quite distinct; and, though not so neat and regular as some others, it is of excellent quality, and recommended for cultivation.

  • Of course the success of the species may be dependent on the number of its enemies, or parasites, or on quite distinct causes, and so be altogether independent of the quantity of honey which the bees can collect.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bade him; great estate; quite common; quite evident; quite like; quite modern; quite obvious; quite overcome; quite prepared; quite ready; quite safe; quite satisfied; quite smooth; quite soft; quite suddenly; quite sure; quite true; quite unknown; quite unnecessary; quite useless; quite well; quite willing; rather hard; she isn; worth living; you keep