Sentences with phrase «tiny barbs»

They do this by licking their fur with a tongue that is covered by tiny barbs and in doing so they dislodge any loose hairs.

Their tongues come equipped with tiny barbs called papillae that help collect loose hairs, grit and dirt from the cat's hair as they lick.

When it is not properly brushed, the scales stick up like tiny barbs, these small barbs catch loose, wooly undercoat hairs, dirt and debris, knotting and tangling them into a mass of solid hair that is almost impossible to comb through

Then, as a sapling, its leaves grow into footlong spears with tiny barbs along the edge.

The little «tree» in my hand is a dart head fashioned from creamy - brown chert and bristling with tiny barbs designed to lodge in the flesh of marine prey.

Not exact matches

But looking on an even smaller scale, researchers found tiny wrinkles on the surface of these barbs.

They found that the penguin's feathers are full of tiny, micrometer - scale interlocking barbs, they report this month in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.

The pale, tiny fish with long, whiskerlike barbs sprouting from its head (above) is a new species of loach, as yet unnamed.

Papillae are tiny hair - like barbs made of keratin, and they help cats groom their fur, and they aid in eating.

Intact male cats have rows of tiny, backward - pointing barbs on the head of the penis.