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  • noun Plural form of callosity.

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Examples

  • The callosities are the points on which it kneels down to receive its burden.

    Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys Mayne Reid 1850

  • Look at the flat, narrow haunch bones -- the long and narrow passage -- the coarse, outwardly curved, ischiatic prominences on which the Gibbon habitually rests, and which are coated by the so-called "callosities," dense patches of skin, wholly absent in the Gorilla, in the Chimpanzee, and in the Orang, as in Man!

    On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • Look at the flat, narrow haunch bones -- the long and narrow passage -- the coarse, outwardly curved, ischiatic prominences on which the Gibbon habitually rests, and which are coated by the so-called "callosities," dense patches of skin, wholly absent in the Gorilla, in the Chimpanzee, and in the Orang, as in Man!

    Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • A quiet twin-engine, slow-flying aircraft is used to photograph the whales, which can be individually identified by the white markings or "callosities" on their heads and tracked.

    unknown title 2009

  • A quiet twin-engine, slow-flying aircraft is used to photograph the whales, which can be individually identified by the white markings or "callosities" on their heads and tracked.

    unknown title 2009

  • A quiet twin-engine, slow-flying aircraft is used to photograph the whales, which can be individually identified by the white markings or "callosities" on their heads and tracked.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

  • A quiet twin-engine, slow-flying aircraft is used to photograph the whales, which can be individually identified by the white markings or "callosities" on their heads and tracked.

    unknown title 2009

  • A quiet twin-engine, slow-flying aircraft is used to photograph the whales, which can be individually identified by the white markings or "callosities" on their heads and tracked.

    Central Florida News 13 - Latest Headlines 2009

  • A quiet twin-engine, slow-flying aircraft is used to photograph the whales, which can be individually identified by the white markings or "callosities" on their heads and tracked.

    IdahoStatesman.com News Updates 2009

  • A quiet twin-engine, slow-flying aircraft is used to photograph the whales, which can be individually identified by the white markings or "callosities" on their heads and tracked.

    KING5.com - Animal News 2009

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  • Also used to describe the raised skin on Right Whales that appears white/yellow due to whale lice. Marine scientists use the callosities to identify different whales for tracking and observational studies.

    June 17, 2008