Sentences with phrase «of flower shape»

The study — the first to experimentally investigate the role of flower shape and size in sexually deceptive orchids — is published in the British Ecological Society's journal Functional Ecology.

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It could be buried under the garden of heart - shaped flowers.

It consisted of as many as seven palaces for princes in the Salman branch of the family, around an artificial body of water in the shape of a flower.

Are we to believe that one male hummingbird, or a group of male hummingbirds had a meeting and decided that from that point forward all the males on the island would have one shape only, and specifically to fit that flower?

You know what that means: The influx of overpriced flower bundles, tacky heart - shaped chocolates, useless oversized teddy bears and the distinct sound of a stampede to the card aisle of the nearest Walgreens.

You know what that means: The influx of overpriced flower bundles, tacky heart - shaped chocolates, useless oversized teddy bears and the distinct sound of a stampede to the...

The book of love is long and boring And written very long ago It's full of flowers and heart - shaped boxes And things we're all too young to know but

I know not what shape, what analogy, what secret of relation it was that made me see in this flower a limitless beauty....

These show the variety in shape and color of chile flowers.

This large trailing plant with yellow, bell - shaped flowers, will take up a lot of room in the garden, and if you've ever grown pumpkins you may have memories of them wildly overrunning the backyard at quite a remarkable pace.

Dress up your usual presentation of fruit salad by using a cookie cutter to create flower - shaped melons and threading the fruit on skewers.

A stunning, transparent, flower - shaped cap made of DuPont ™ Surlyn ®, molded and decorated by Alcan Packaging Beauty in France, adorns the fragrance from Cartier called Délices de Cartier.

I found very cute muffin molds and their shape reminds me of the Christmas flower called poinsettia.

The zucchini flower also known as squash blossom or pumpkin flower is variety of squash that has a long shape and a thin, dark and smooth green rind.

Then, a cluster of tubular - bell - shaped violet flowers, signifying the coming of spring and Nowruz, the Persian New Year.

The designs resemble different shapes of tulip flowers with golden and textured envelop at the base and soaring up transparent PMMA at the top.

With the trails in all time perfect condition, the wild flowers popping and riders in the best shape of the season, the race was nothing short of awesome.

Before school even started my anxiety about having to prepare a delicious lunch that my kid would actually eat led me down a Pinterest black hole in which I found myself pinning images of flower - shaped lunch meats and bananas sculpted to look like characters from Frozen.

Charm bracelet made using plastic vintage flowers, glass, plastic beads in a range of shapes, colours and sizes

Start with one cork in the middle, and add a one row of corks around the outside in the shape of a flower.

I love the addition of using paper flower shapes to show capillary action - much more exciting than the traditional paper towel in a cup!

Paper is made of lots of fibres, as they absorb the water they swell and the paper expands, which made the flower shapes open up.

Kids in both groups talked with an adult who showed them some peculiar, deceptive - looking objects, like a pen that took the shape of a flower.

Add a pop of color and a fun touch to the bee antennae with a small heart - or flower - shaped paper punch.

I wish Thermos would make rectangle containers... We have a «tradition» = on Friday, it's sandwich... I try to make this lunch fun by using cookie cutters so she has mini sandwiches in shapes of hearts, flowers etc...

Hydrangea and large blooming flowers like garden roses or peonies are perfect for arrangements like these because they quickly fill a lot of space and create a nice shape.

You can cut the food in the shapes of stars, moons, flowers, teddy bears or triangles so that they find it more interesting and entertaining to eat their food.

Unavailable for years, the beloved Hearts and Flowers Pan that produces eight heart - shaped wedges of delectable shortbread is now being reproduced for a limited time.

Baby crib bedding comes in variety of styles, shapes, colors, finishes and in different themes like angles, flowers and cartoon characters.

Our nipples are parts of our body that we — North American women — want to hide under padded bras and nipple covers shaped like flowers, making sure they never show through our clothes.

The main point is to have clothing and towels wrapped up in the shape of flowers.

The Peg and Layer Jungle is an amazing toy that consists of foam shapes that combine to form a jungle scene complete with trees, monkeys and flowers.

It followed a stunt he staged at Mr Duncan's home - planting a flower bed in the shape of a pound sign in protest at his claim for gardening.

The sunglasses come in natural, brown, or dark maple frames with the option of detailed laser - engraved designs on the arms in the shape of puzzle pieces or the flower of life.

They determined that it was a different species from the following observations: the parts above ground are a dark purple, the filament of the male (staminate) flower is no higher than the anther, and the style of the female (pistillate) flower is club - shaped with multiple papillae.

Both methods for obtaining nectar were effective, but the researchers think that the grooved - tongue bats may have an advantage in acquiring nectar from flowers of certain shapes that hold the sweet liquid differently.

The rainforest vine Marcgravia evenia grows an unusual bowl - shaped leaf above each ring of flowers and nectaries.

Dr Crispin Jordan, of the University of Edinburgh's School of Biological Sciences, who led the study, said: «Plants and their flowers exist in all shapes and sizes, and our finding that the arrangement of flowers can influence how bees forage might go some way to explaining how plants, which rely on others species to spread pollen, can influence their own reproduction.»

What stuck with him most was the sight of an elegant lily with tiny, bell - shaped magenta flowers that grew on one of the boulders.

3D - printed replicas show just how subtle the faked identity of Dracula orchid flowers is, involving smell, shape and spots that resemble flies

Scientists already knew that variation in shape, size and colour of individual flowers can influence how their pollen is spread by visiting insects or birds.

Plant geneticists are busy identifying dozens of stretches of DNA that help determine the size, shape, color, scent, flowering characteristics, and longevity of various plants.

PORTLAND, ORE. — A great flower shape for a moth trying to get a drink in the dark turns out to be awful from the plant's point of view.

Offering hawk moths (Manduca sexta) a range of 3 - D printed flowers with different curvatures shows that a moderately curved trumpet shape lets moths sip most efficiently, Foen Peng reported June 24 at the Evolution 2017 meeting.

For this particular research problem they developed a so - called y - maze experiment, a proboscis choice test in which a y - shaped tube system is used as an extension of the flower's corolla.

The plate's flower shape helped perpetuate the flow of the rods among the beads, revealing the underlying physics.

Ecologists who study flowering plants have long believed that flowers evolved with particular sets of characteristics — unique combinations of colors, shapes, and orientations, for example — as a means of attracting specific pollinators.

The team constructed dozens of muscles using materials ranging from metal springs to packing foam to sheets of plastic, and experimented with different skeleton shapes to create muscles that can contract down to 10 % of their original size, lift a delicate flower off the ground, and twist into a coil, all simply by sucking the air out of them.

This is one of the reasons this research will greatly facilitate those interested in the modification of flower colours and shapes using the CRISPR / Cas9 system in ornamental flowers or vegetables.

Simon reckons the predictable echo signal of the disc - shaped leaf might help bats find Marcgravia flowers against the random and variable echo background of the rainforest.