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furcula::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | bone, os |
| Has types | wishbone, wishing bone |
Examples of furcula
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This discovery also indicates that the furcula of birds is derived from clavicles.
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Tinamous have a proper semicircular furcula, with no trace of a hypocleidium.
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It does this by whipping its tail-like furcula against the snow.
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Feathers made the evolutionary trend clear even to those who couldn't tell a femur from a furcula.
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The clavicles do not fuse into a furcula.
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Even these two skeletal mounts are lacking elements including the sterna, sternal ribs, furcula, and gastralia.
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Most species have an abdominal, tail-like appendage, the furcula, that is folded beneath the body to be used for jumping when the animal is threatened.
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As in other flightless birds and some other flighted parrots, the furcula is not fused, but consists of a pair of clavicles lying in contact with each coracoid.
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- A forked bone formed by the fusion of the clavicles of most birds
- The furcula is a tail-like appendage shaped like a fork, found on the fourth abdominal segment of springtails. Present in most species, it is used for jumping when the animal is threatened. ...
- Furcula is a genus of moths of the Notodontidae family.
- (furculum) (plural: furcula) - the elongate fork-like appendage on the end of the abdomen (folds under the body) of Collembola which is used as a spring action for leaping
- A pair of posterior facing projections found on top of (if present) the supra-anal plate.
- Forked projection from posterior edge of tenth abdominal tergum and overlying supraanal plate (Fig. 8).
- Commonly referred to as the 'wishbone'.
- Forked structure on supra-anal plate of male grasshopper. (Fig. 58);newmexicofigure58.focus();return false;)
