Word Finder - protruded

definition

To extend from, above or beyond a surface or boundary; to bulge outward; to stick out.

definition

To cause to extend from a surface or boundary; to cause to stick out.

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To thrust forward; to drive or force along.

A little further on, strange fuzzy green pods protruded from the straight branches of another bush.

This time a whitish sack protruded and then ruptured.

The cirri or tentacles, of which three or four pairs are present, are capable of being protruded, and the minute larva swims by means of the ciliary action they produce.

The purple flower, which blooms late in autumn, is very similar to that of the common spring crocus, and the stigmas, which are protruded from the perianth, are of a characteristic orange-red colour.

The foot is very large and powerful; it can be protruded from the anterior aperture between the mantle edges, and its outer part is bent sharply forwards and terminates in a point.

The tentacles serve for the capture of prey and are very contractile, being often protruded to a great length or, on the other hand, retracted and forming corkscrew-like curls.

The tongue presents little variability in length, being short and compressed, with a blunt tip, which is never protruded beyond the incisors.

The eversible sacs on the abdominal segments are shown, some protruded and some retracted.

New masses of granites protruded next from underneath, and the Bothnian deposits underwent foldings in their turn, while denudation was again at work on a grand scale.

When Highly magnified view of one of the protruded from the opening cirri.

The captacula are tactile and prehensile and can be protruded from the anterior aperture of the mantle.

The foot is elongated and cylindrical, and can be protruded from the anterior aperture to serve as a burrowing organ.

The head is situated on the dorsal side of the body anteriorly within the anterior aperture of the mantle, from which it cannot be protruded.

By, muscle-fibres belonging to the same two systems the whole body may be retracted or protruded.

The stamens of the wheat plant may frequently be seen protruding beyond the glumes, and their position might lead to the inference that cross-fertilization was the rule; but on closer examination it will be found that the anthers are empty or nearly so, and that they are not protruded till after they have deposited the pollen upon the stigma.

The small sinuous segmented body is enclosed, except for one small opening, in an enormous sac-like carapace, between the lamellae of which are protruded from the body the ovary and " liver," both large, bifurcate and ramified.

I'm … Claire shook her hand, and the visions that protruded into her thoughts floored her.

Their function is to retract the introvert, which is protruded again by the contraction of the circular muscles of the skin; these, compressing the fluid of the body-cavity, force forward the anterior edge of the introvert.

At the same time another branch of the same gulf protruded northwards in the direction of the Aral, probably as far as the Sary Kamish depression, which lies to the west of the Khivan delta of the Oxus, separated from it by wide beds of loess, clays and gravel, covering rocks of an unknown age.

A small pink tongue protruded from her black lips.

Growing up I developed overgrowth of my jaw, causing it to look protruded and making it difficult to chew food.

I'm … Claire shook her hand, and the visions that protruded into her thoughts floored her.

Neumayr finds evidence of the existence of a continent between Africa and South America, which protruded into the central North Atlantic, in Jurassic times.

In B the spadix of the upper bud has protruded itself through the top of the gonoat the base of the theca and the acrocyst (ac) is secreted round it.

It is protruded and retracted by special muscles which are partly attached to the ventral, distal end of the ilium.

It is worthy of notice that in those Nemertines which make a very free use of their proboscis, and in which it is seen to be continually protruded and retracted, the walls of the proboscidian sheath are enormously muscular.

His vanity made him order the surgeons to cut out a bone which protruded below the knee and spoilt the symmetry of his leg.

Valvata is common in fresh waters throughout Britain; the gill when the animal is expanded is protruded beyond the mantle-chamber.

In Terebratulina, Rhyn- chonella, Lingula, and possibly other genera, the arms can be unrolled and protruded from the opened shell; in this case the tentacles also FIG.

The bulb partially protruded from the two dome reflectors, and only the light from the very edges was diverted downwards.

The female is a segmented, wormlike creature, spending her whole life within the body of the bee, wasp or bug on which she is parasitic. One end of her body protrudes from between two of the abdominal segments of the host; it has been a subject of dispute whether this protruded end is the head or the tail, but there can be little doubt that it is the latter.