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- noun Plural form of
forepart .
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Examples
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The attraction said, “A newly discovered animal, comprising the head and eye of an elephant, the horns of an antelope, a long black beard, the hind parts of a lion, the foreparts of a bison, cloven-footed, has a flowing mane from shoulder to fetlock joint and chews the cud.”
Boing Boing 2009
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Snake tails dangled down their backs, and snake foreparts in various lengths fell over their fronts, heads raised and swaying, alert as cobras.
Everyone Was In Love 2006
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The ketea indikoi were large, monstrous fish who had the foreparts of such animals as lions, rams, and wolves.
WMAM 2008
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The ketea indikoi were large, monstrous fish who had the foreparts of such animals as lions, rams, and wolves.
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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Snake tails dangled down their backs, and snake foreparts in various lengths fell over their fronts, heads raised and swaying, alert as cobras.
Everyone Was In Love 2006
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And the Age of Reason hobnobbed with the foreparts of the donkey.
Between the Acts 2004
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One by one they twisted their murderous foreparts around, thrust them forward and down in a powerful burrowing motion, and sneezed their way back to the depths from which they had emerged.
Kingdoms of Light Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2001
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Lowering its foreparts, it started toward her, lurching from side to side and gathering speed with each pentuple stride.
Jed the Dead Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997
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A wide range of machines are available for cement lasting foreparts, sides and seats.
Chapter 5 1982
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Insoles for high heeled shoes may need a series of shallow slots cut across the undersides of their foreparts to assist flexing.
Chapter 5 1982
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