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Yes | No | Report from Elmer Fudd wrote 19 hours 19 min ago the right answer is that it is a tuft of hair-like material, might be 6 inches or more long, formed into sort of a cylinder ... "skinny horsetail" is not a bad description.
QUIZ... I've run into some hunters who thought they knew what a turkey beard is, but they didnt. 2010
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Yes | No | Report from Elmer Fudd wrote 19 hours 19 min ago the right answer is that it is a tuft of hair-like material, might be 6 inches or more long, formed into sort of a cylinder ... "skinny horsetail" is not a bad description.
QUIZ... I've run into some hunters who thought they knew what a turkey beard is, but they didnt. 2010
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Each flower is wrapped tightly in a drab sheath, from which it sends up a pair of hair-like tubes, pistils in search of the pollen that the artful gardener denies them.
Boutique buds: What underground mom-and-pop growers did while we debated legalization Adrian Higgins 2010
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Mutations impede the flow of chloride, causing the mucus to accumulate and impeding the hair-like particles called cilia from beating back and forth to clear out the mucus.
Gene Discovery Was Only First Step Jonathan D. Rockoff 2011
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Lead researcher Dr Kazuo Oshima said: ‘We’ve made hair-like cells in a Petri dish.
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Males of the species, which grows to about 11 centimetres, also produce long hair-like strands of skin and arteries when they breed (see image).
Trichobatrachus robustus breaks its own bones to produce claws « Isegoria 2008
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A single hair-like filament was being drawn from the teat.
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Thousands of hair-like fibers fan out across the neighborhood from a tiny office, where the lines converge and link to terminals owned by one of the three operators.
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Peel the carrots and cut into long, hair-like shreds.
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Males of the species, which grows to about 11 centimetres, also produce long hair-like strands of skin and arteries when they breed (see image).
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