Sentences with phrase «like peacock tails»

The famed naturalist suspected that insect genitalia, which are frequently festooned with bizarre combinations of hooks, spines, and knobs, essentially functioned like peacock tails.

Some people have argued that human head hair serves the purpose of conspicuous consumption much like the peacocks tail.

in that regard, its like a Peacock tail.

Not exact matches

After Darwin proposed natural selection, he had a problem: There were all these things that were obviously not helpful to an individual's survival, like elk antlers and the peacock's tail.

The ruffles of this dress look like I have my own tiny, rainbow - colored peacock tail.

Lord Shen, the white peacock, whirls about like a dervish, alternating his wide, beautiful tail as both shield and weapon with moves that make Jet Li look like a wallflower.

A viewer of Spectrums should not be alarmed, then, to notice a human arm aboriginal to an eddy of denim scraps, plaid scarves, silk flowers, and peacock feathers — holding its own braided string like a balloon — like a dragon reaching for its tail — like the unselfconscious energy of turning inward — like an autonomous cosmos.

The windows are cased in silver swags and tails that drape bountifully to the ground like a Disney princess» ball gown and the feature wall (no, the mirrored wall unit wasn't enough) is composed of a mural of butterflies, peacock feathers and supernatural animal heads...