Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In naval architecture, the part of a ship's form in the middle of the length where the cross-sections are all of nearly the same size and shape. The parallel middle-body is that part in which they are of exactly the same dimensions.
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Examples
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Even more strangely, as with the fly, the genes in mammals were still lined up with body segments, with the leftmost gene coding for head regions, middle genes for middle-body regions, and rightmost gene for tail-end sections.
The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007
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Even more strangely, as with the fly, the genes in mammals were still lined up with body segments, with the leftmost gene coding for head regions, middle genes for middle-body regions, and rightmost gene for tail-end sections.
The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007
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Even more strangely, as with the fly, the genes in mammals were still lined up with body segments, with the leftmost gene coding for head regions, middle genes for middle-body regions, and rightmost gene for tail-end sections.
The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007
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Even more strangely, as with the fly, the genes in mammals were still lined up with body segments, with the leftmost gene coding for head regions, middle genes for middle-body regions, and rightmost gene for tail-end sections.
The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007
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The sequence of the sections of the body in order of time seems originally to have been, that first the fore-body, then the hind-body, and finally the middle-body was formed.
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859
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Last foot of the middle-body of the larva of Entoniscus
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859
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The young animal, when it begins to take care of itself, resembles the old ones in almost all parts, except one important difference; it possesses only six, instead of seven pairs of ambulatory feet; and the last segment of the middle-body is but slightly developed and destitute of appendages.
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859
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The latter again becomes destitute of appendages, so that in this case at an early period four, and at a later only three, segments of the middle-body bear limbs.
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859
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This is a circumstance which renders very doubtful the equivalence of the middle-body of the Malacostraca with the section of the body which in the Copepoda bears the swimming feet and in the Cirripedia the cirri.
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859
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The last segment and the last two pairs of feet of the middle-body are wanting.
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859
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