Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Thus every gradation, from an ordinary fixed spine to a fixed pedicellariae, would be of service.

From The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition by Darwin, Charles

The gradation extends even to the manner in which ordinary spines and the pedicellariae, with their supporting calcareous rods, are articulated to the shell.

From The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition by Darwin, Charles

Now when the latter arise from the summit of a spine they form, in fact, a rude tridactyle pedicellariae, and such may be seen on the same spine together with the three lower branches.

From The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition by Darwin, Charles

In this case the identity in nature between the arms of the pedicellariae and the movable branches of a spine, is unmistakable.

From The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition by Darwin, Charles

I wish I had space here to give a fuller abstract of Mr. Agassiz's interesting observations on the development of the pedicellariae.

From The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition by Darwin, Charles