long-tongued

Who could forget those long-tongued orchids hobbling about on their bulbous bases?

Best Book Club Books 2 « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

Perhaps the most unusual invertebrates found here are the long-tongued flies (Memestrinidae), which can have mouthparts up to 50 millimeters long.

Biological diversity in the Succulent Karoo 2008

A good example of pollinator-driven speciation is the long-tongued flies Proseca peringuyei and Proseca sp. nov.

Succulent Karoo 2008

There are many cases where a single pollinator is responsible for pollinating many species of plants, for example long-tongued flies (Tabanidae and Nemestrinidae) are the exclusive pollinators of many genera of petaloid monocots as well as Pelargonium and Erica; a butterfly is the exclusive pollinator of a phylogenetically disparate group of red-flowered and autumn-flowering species; hopliine (monkey) beetle pollination has evolved convergently in many genera, etc.

Lowland fynbos and renosterveld 2008

"When we first met Garth. we hugged each other like we'd known each other all our lives," says long-tongued bassist Gene Simmons.

Guess Why They Call It The Bandwagon 2008

This species flowers in the dry season, thus providing pollen to nectar-feeding long-tongued bats (Choeronycteris mexicana and Glossophaga soricina) – amongst the most important pollinators of the Sonoran region – at a time when few other plants are in flower.

Sonoran-Sinaloan transition subtropical dry forest 2007

Cacomistle (Bassariscus sumichrasti), Underwood's long-tongued bat (Hylonycteris underwoodi), Davis 'round-eared bat (Tonatia evotis) and Mexican agouti (Dasyprocta mexicana) are mammals found in this mangrove ecoregion.

Usumacinta mangroves 2007

Why, how now, long-tongued Warwick! dare you speak?

The Third part of King Henry the Sixth 2004

With his other hand, he made a long-tongued iguana that dropped to the floor and immediately began circling under the mosquito.

Chainer's Torment Mcgough, Scott 2002

Among them was Colonel Milton Caukins, tax collector and assistant deputy sheriff who, never quite at ease in the presence of his long-tongued wife, expanded discursively so soon as he found himself in the office of The

Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller