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The fact being incontestable, we must evidently admit that the exsertion of the organ is rendered possible only by the expansion of the tracheal vesicles.

From The Life of the Bee by Sutro, Alfred

It varies greatly in the size and hairiness of its leaves, in the form of its flowers, which are broadly or narrowly funnel-form, and in the exsertion of the stamens and style.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth

That margin in the scuta and terga which opens and shuts for the exsertion and retraction of the cirri, I have called the Occludent margin.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles

A prolonged flight must first expand his two great tracheal sacs; these enormous receptacles being gorged on air will throw back the lower part of the abdomen, and permit the exsertion of the organ.

From The Life of the Bee by Sutro, Alfred