knobby
Origin of knobby
1Other words from knobby
- knob·bi·ness, noun
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How to use knobby in a sentence
Their analysis revealed more than 60 mutations, including 42 changes alone in omicron’s spike protein — the knobby structure on the surface of the virus that initiates a cell break-in and can help evade antibody defenses.
How omicron’s mutations make it the most infectious coronavirus variant yet | Tina Hesman Saey | March 1, 2022 | Science NewsLi and colleagues used an electron microscope to zoom in on ossicles from several dozen dead knobby starfish.
A diamondlike structure gives some starfish skeletons their strength | Carolyn Wilke | February 10, 2022 | Science NewsIt’s the knobby protein studding each coronavirus that helps the virus latch onto and invade human cells.
Why the coronavirus’s delta variant dominated 2021 | Erin Garcia de Jesús | December 16, 2021 | Science NewsI was seven years old and hanging upside down—knobby knees slung over the trapeze bar, blond hair dragging through the grass—when the birds tried telling me something.
In the way of unplugged children with nothing but time and imagination, I studied them, identifying faces in their knobby protuberances.
At Glacier’s Edge, the Flames Have Always Come for My Family Cabin | jversteegh | August 20, 2021 | Outside Online
He saw a nose and a little, knobby chin and a bit of pinkish forehead with the pale yellow of hair above.
Cabin Fever | B. M. BowerThe knobs on the trunk of a young pine reminded Franz strongly of knobby-kneed young Hertha Bittner.
Rescue Dog of the High Pass | James Arthur KjelgaardThe rest of his ruddy, knobby countenance, his erratic hair and his general hairy leanness had not even—to my perceptions grown.
Tono Bungay | H. G. WellsMr. Caslon leaped nimbly to one side and whacked the goat savagely across the back with his knobby stick.
Ruth Fielding At Sunrise Farm | Alice B. EmersonA beggar's sack hangs down over his ragged clothing, his hand holds a knobby stick.
'Midst the Wild Carpathians | Mr Jkai
British Dictionary definitions for knobby
/ (ˈnɒbɪ) /
having or covered with small knobs; knobbly
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