tail-like

• “That is the year Michael Behe came face-to-face with his own difficult scientific problem: the evolution of the bacterial flagellum, a tail-like rotor that aids in cellular locomotion.”

  The Huffington Post: Paul Wallace: Intelligent Design Is Dead: A Christian Perspective

• “The planet has a scorpion tail-like half-ring in orbit, although this is not visible in either The Plan or Razor.”

  The Twelve Colonies of Humanity

• “Dynein is a motor protein that is found in flagella, the long tail-like structure that projects from certain types of cells like sperm to help the cell move.”

  Nested Universe - Singularity Blog, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Cosmology, Science and Technology

• “Diatoms have non-growing siliceous shells and thus need silicate for growth while dinoflagellates move by the action of tail-like projections called flagella.”

  General description of the Arctic biota

• “With ambition, im - agination, outgrowth, nutriment, with everything crammed belligerent - ly inside itself, its fibres breed mon - opoly — a tail-like, wedge-shaped engine with the secret of expansion, fused with intensive heat to the color of the set - ting sun and stiff.”

  Marianne Moore and Revolution : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation

• “For instance, cells in the airways may be helped to move their tail-like cilia to push mucus along.”

  Smoking is a Turn-On for Some Genes | Impact Lab

• “Simple, plain mushrooms are my favorite, but shiitake can make it exotic, and enoki, with its little bulbous head and long tail-like stem, shaped like well, you know, is downright erotic.”

  Archive 2005-08-01

• “This version of pepper consists of individual berries and their tail-like stems.”

  Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

• ““You can clearly see,” Corky said, “that the dorsal shell is segmented in plates like a terrestrial pill bug, and yet the two prominent tail-like appendages differentiate it as something closer to a louse.””

  Simon & Schuster: Deception Point

• “The dangling bootstrap was even curled into a poisonous, tail-like shape.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Viking Claw

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