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- noun Plural form of
paralyser .
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Examples
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And, of course, flying spellcasters, or spellcasting paralysers, are another order of danger again.
Tales of Phantasia Post-Mortem Greg Tannahill 2006
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And, of course, flying spellcasters, or spellcasting paralysers, are another order of danger again.
Archive 2006-06-01 Greg Tannahill 2006
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The other paralysers work in the open air, in the full light of day.
More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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On the other hand, the actions of the paralysers argue a precise search for the ganglia, at all events for the first thoracic ganglion, the most important of all.
More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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From what we have learnt from the other paralysers, it will be driven into the breast, to suppress the movement of the legs.
More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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Modify the conditions ever so slightly; and these skilful paralysers are at an utter loss.
More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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Her posture of attack, which is very different to that of the paralysers, is infallibly fatal to the victim.
Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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After the Ammophilae, the paralysers who multiply their lancet-thrusts to destroy the influence of the various nerve-centres, excepting those of the head, it seemed advisable to interrogate other insects which also are accustomed to a naked prey, vulnerable at all points save the head, but which deliver only a single thrust of the sting.
More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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To the marvels of the paralysers 'talent we must add one more: their wonderful poison, the strength of which is regulated by delicate doses.
Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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Of the three genera of paralysers, two have allowed me to witness their surgical methods, which the third, I feel certain, will confirm.
More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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