forelimb

Example sentences from the Web for forelimb

• The differences in the sternum and proportions of the forelimb reflect the more rapid flight of the hoary bat.

  North American Yellow Bats, 'Dasypterus,' And a List of the Named Kinds Of the Genus Lasiurus Gray|E. Raymond Hall

• Richardson, looking down, saw the long, fine reach of forelimb as steady as steel machinery.

  The Open Boat and Other Stories|Stephen Crane

• The forelimb is transitional between the pectoral fin of Rhipidistia and the limb of early Amphibia.

  A New Order of Fishlike Amphibia From the Pennsylvanian of Kansas|Theodore H. Eaton