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- noun Plural form of
pelvis .
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Examples
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Not bad for the average visitor, but there are some rather annoying (Chinese Velociraptor specimens are said to be found in Liaoning rather than in Inner Mongolia) to laughably anatomical (right hands on left arms and vice versa; pelves mounted backwards; etc.)
Chinasaurs: Dinosaur Dynasty at the Maryland Science Center ReBecca Foster 2009
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The sheep and goat remains consist almost exclusively of hind limb elements (pelves, femora, tibiae, and anklebones).
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Subsistence Studies Report 3 2003
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The meat-bearing parts of the fore - and hind legs (represented by scapulae, humeri, radii, ulnae, pelves, femora and tibiae) and the axial skeleton (vertebrae and ribs) were less frequently present.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Subsistence Studies Report 2 2003
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The differences in the pelves (the plural of pelvis is pelves) of the male and female become fully marked at puberty, but they are present as early as the fourth month of intra-uterine life.
Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson
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Women of short stature, as a rule, have broad pelves.
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There are altars made of their skulls, and chandeliers made of their thigh bones; frescoes of their spines; mosaics of their teeth and dried muscles; cozy corners of their femurs and pelves and tibiae.
Europe Revised 1910
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Here are reptiles with bat-like wings, and others with bird-like pelves and legs adapted for bipedal locomotion.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904
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The most difficult task of all will be to prevent the assembled Savans from massacring the "specimens" at the end of the exhibition for the sake of their skulls and pelves!
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900
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The sensation was distinct in each, except where the pelves joined.
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Ellis 5.35 speaks of female twins, born in Millville, Tenn., and exhibited in New York in 1868, who were joined at the pelves in a longitudinal axis.
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