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Not prominent nor easily noticeable

I tried to remain inconspicuous as I leaned against a back wall, my mind still in turmoil.

He played an inconspicuous role in the council of the Five Hundred.

It has large compound leaves composed of four or five pairs, with a terminal odd one, of short-stalked, oblong, blunt, leathery leaflets, and inconspicuous green flowers.

The nest is a slight hollow in the ground, wonderfully inconspicuous even when deepened, as is usually the case, by incubation, and the blackspotted olive eggs (four in number) are almost invisible to the careless or untrained eye.

It has narrow, shortstalked leaves and inconspicuous, apetalous, unisexual flowers borne in short spikes.

Around 200 to 300 turned up opposite the hairdressers trying to look very inconspicuous.

Shepherdia - A small group of American shrubs, grown for their bright silvery foliage, the flowers being inconspicuous, though one kind bears an excellent fruit.

The fact that a person's chest is covered much of the time makes it an ideal spot for larger tattoos or for tattoos that need to be inconspicuous.

Its public buildings are inconspicuous; they include a theatre, military barracks, hospitals, a lunatic asylum and a secondary school.

Many plants produce, in addition to ordinary open flowers, so-called cleistogamous flowers, which remain permanently closed but which notwithstanding produce fruit; in these the corolla is inconspicuous or absent and the pollen grows from the anther on to the stigma of the same flower.

These sierras lying near the coast have an imposing appearance from the lowlands, but when seen from the plateau their general elevation is so dwarfed as to render them comparatively inconspicuous.

Plants whose beauty resides in the bracts or floral leaves which surround the inconspicuous flowers.

Besides these the group also includes a multitude of related forms which, from their aquatic habits and generally inconspicuous size, and from the fact that they are commonly neither edible nor noxious, are little known except to naturalists and are undistinguished by any popular names.

These conditions allow the inconspicuous gametophyte (about the size of a finger nail) to develop and undergo fertilization.

This can be tricky, so use some caution the first few times you try it, and start in an inconspicuous area.

The prae-genital somite wide, not constricted, with large tergal plate, but with its sternal plate small or inconspicuous.

Practically no other form of worship exists in the country than that of the Roman Catholic Church, the Protestant and other denominations holding their services in inconspicuous chapels or private apartments in the larger cities, where considerable numbers of foreigners reside.

And on the influence of these inconspicuous bodies and of the pituitary body in sustaining arterial blood pressures physiologists have thrown some important light.

But the materials obtained were few, the shower having proved inconspicuous.

In one group, represented by Cereus, they consist of a tube, more or less elongated, on the outer surface of which, towards the base, are developed small and at first inconspicuous scales, which gradually 0000 FIG.

In wind-fertilized plants the flowers are comparatively inconspicuous and devoid of much attraction for insects; and their pollen is smoother and smaller, and better adapted for transport by the wind, than that of insectfertilized plants, the roughness of which adapts it for attachment to the bodies of insects.

There are some business edifices and residences of considerable architectural merit, but the greater part are small and inconspicuous, a majority of the residences being thatched, mudwalled cabins.

Khyan's monuments, inconspicuous as they are, actually extend over a wider area - from Bagdad to Cnossus - than those of any other Egyptian king.

The river is relatively inconspicuous toward the center of the valley.

Apart from being outdone by a teenager all year, heâs been pretty inconspicuous.

The decalogue boards themselves were placed somewhere inconspicuous, usually high on the west wall, or in the space beneath the tower.

These inconspicuous flowers give place to glossy, orange-yellow fruits of great beauty, crowded upon long tapering spikes of 6 to 9 inches.

The kinds in cultivation are natives of New Zealand; the best known, M. complexa, is a very rapid grower, with long wiry and entangled branches, small leaves, and rather inconspicuous white waxy flowers.

P. myrsinites, the only kind in our gardens, is 1 to 2 feet high, with Box-like leaves and inconspicuous reddish flowers followed by berries.

Most of the other varieties have inconspicuous flowers, but one or two are worth growing for the sake of their autumn foliage, which dies away in various shades of crimson.

It makes a rounded, much-branched head of slender, dark grey shoots, bearing small, Elm-like leaves, and inconspicuous reddish flowers, which appear at the same time in early spring.

Your drywall installation technique will improve as you go, so start in an inconspicuous area and save the most visible wall in your room for last.

All you need to do is select one symbol and use it in an inconspicuous manner that goes with your décor.

Because it was installed under the counter, this type of can opener was inconspicuous and always easy-to-find because it wasn't going anywhere.

Cameras are sold in various household items to be inconspicuous like in a clock, smoke alarm, potted plant, or picture frame.

Always test these products in an inconspicuous place before applying them to your car, since they may affect your car's paint job.

If your hardwood floor has been stained, it may be possible to remove the stain with a cleaner formulated for hardwood flooring, but always read the label carefully and test the cleaner in an inconspicuous area first.

Test the product on an inconspicuous part of the skin before using it on the face.

The small inconspicuous flowers are generally more or less crowded in terminal or lateral clusters, the form of the inflorescence varying widely according to the manner of branching and the length of the pedicels.

The flowers are hermaphrodite and regular, with the same number and arrangement of parts as in the order Liliaceae, from which they differ in the inconspicuous membranous character of the perianth, the absence of honey or smell, and the brushlike stigmas with long papillae-adaptations to wind-pollination as contrasted with the methods of pollination by insect agency, which characterize the Liliaceae.

They have very small eyes, blunt snouts, inconspicuous ears and short limbs and tails, in all of which points they are markedly contrasted with true rats and mice.

The leaf is usually provided at the base of the leaf-stalk with stipules, which are inconspicuous, or large and leafy; and the stalk is also furnished with one or more glandular excrescences, as in some cases are the leaf itself and the bracts.

The most distinctive feature of the deer of this group is, however, the patch of long erectile white hairs on the buttocks, which, although inconspicuous when the animals are quiescent, is expanded into a large chrysanthemum-like bunch when they start to run or are otherwise excited.

Some Commelinaceae and Marantaceae approach grasses in foliage; the leaves of Allium, &c., possess a ligule; the habit of some palms reminds one of the bamboos; and Juncaceae and a few Liliaceae possess an inconspicuous scarious perianth.

In Pinus the needles occur in pairs, or in clusters of 3 or 5 at the apex of a small and inconspicuous short shoot of limited growth (spur), which is enclosed at its base by a few scale-leaves, and borne on a branch of unlimited growth in the axil of a scale-leaf.

The finer branches are green, and bear a close resemblance to the stems of Equisetum and to the slender twigs of Casuarina; the surface of the long internodes is marked by fine longitudinal ribs, and at the nodes are borne pairs of inconspicuous scale-leaves.

A single male flower consists of an axis enclosed at the base by an inconspicuous perianth formed of two concrescent leaves and terminating in two, or as many as eight, shortly stalked or sessile anthers.

While the female presents the usual inconspicuous mottled plumage of the same sex in most species of Anatinae, the male is one of the handsomest of his kind.

There are no fungiform papillae on the dorsum, but a few inconspicuous ones scattered along the sides of the organ.

The second species forms inconspicuous red spots on otherwise unaffected leaves and the underside of the leaves carries an inconspicuous pink hymenium.