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MC: Visually, the loose, brush-like look of your panel boxes is actually rather elegant and eye-catching.

The 'Riffs Interview: 'CYANIDE & HAPPINESS's' Dave McElfatrick tackles visas, viscera & American humor Michael Cavna 2010

How do you like using the brush-like felting surface?

» Needle Felting Tutorial Strocel.com 2009

Instead, the first shot after the stage's curtain is abruptly pulled up is an extreme closeup of the guinea pig's face, so close that its beady eyes and buck teeth are blurred and its long brush-like hairs seem to be rubbing against the camera's lens.

Jan Svankmajer shorts: A Game With Stones; Punch and Judy; Historia Naturae (Suita) Ed Howard 2009

Living Baleen whales lack teeth and feed on minute organisms with their brush-like baleen filters.

Science: Endeavor to Persevere 2009

Anastomus, the Open-billed stork, has scopate tomial edges (meaning that it possesses tiny brush-like structures along the margins of its bill) and upper and lower jaws that bow away from each other, meaning that their edges never meet.

Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006

As is the case in some other birds that sometimes handle hard-shelled prey, the edges of its tomia are scopate: that is, they possess tiny brush-like structures (Gosner 1993).

Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006

Most of the wrigglers, however, feed on algæ, diatoms, Protozoa and other minute plant or animal forms which are swept into the mouth by curious little brush-like organs whose movements keep a stream of water flowing toward the mouth.

Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane

Barbated: bearded; in antennae with tufts or fascicles of hair or short bristles on each side of each joint; = brush-like: on the abdomen, with flat tufts at the sides or tip.

Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

About the top of this brush-like growth the flowers are produced.

Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation W. Watson

Projecting from their apices are numerous filamentous processes, or secondary papillæ these are of a whitish tint, owing to the thickness and density of the epithelium of which they are composed, which has here undergone a peculiar modification, the cells having become cornified and elongated into dense, imbricated, brush-like processes.

XI. Splanchnology. 2a. The Mouth 1918