Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The muscle of the brow which wrinkles the skin of the forehead vertically; the corrugator supercilii.
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Examples
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The forests contain more than 10 reptile and amphibian species including West African toad Bufo superciliaris and the frogs Cassina lamottei and Arthrolepis crusculum.
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire 2008
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This is an important area that holds other restricted range species such as Grey-backed Tachuri Polystictus superciliaris and Pale-throated Pampa-finch Embernagra longicauda.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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As an illustration, the following chameleon and dwarf chameleon forms are restricted to this ecoregion: Calumma gallus, C. cucullata, C. furcifer balteatus, Furcifer bifidus, Brookesia superciliaris, and B. therezieni.
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There are three other snakes that are nearly endemic to the ecoregion, namely floodplain water snake (Lycodonomorphus obscuriventris), dwarf wolf snake (Lycophidion nanus) and eyebrow viper (Proatheris superciliaris).
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I got another specimen of the rare New Guinea kite (Henicopernis longicauda), a large new goatsucker (Podargus superciliaris), and a most curious ground-pigeon of an entirely new genus, and remarkable for its long and powerful bill.
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The next flycatcher that demands notice is the white-browed blue flycatcher (_Cyornis superciliaris_).
Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916
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Of the red-breasted marsh-bird (_Leistes superciliaris_) Hudson
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Havelock Ellis 1899
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In the first nest, which we found under the root of an old spruce-fir on the 17th May, the eggs were quite hard-set; and I may remark that immediately over this nest, about 8 feet up the tree in a crack in the wood, a little _Muscicapula superciliaris_ was sitting on five eggs.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870
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_A. schisticeps_ and _A. superciliaris_, but they are the smallest of all.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870
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I got another specimen of the rare New Guinea kite (Henicopernis longicauda), a large new goatsucker (Podargus superciliaris), and a most curious ground-pigeon of an entirely new genus, and remarkable for its long and powerful bill.
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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