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When the fruit was boiled most of the spongy tissue was removable, exposing the strongly ribbed and spinose endocarp.
A spinose ear tick has even been reported to parasitize humans (Bishopp and Trembley, 1945; Eads and Campos, 1984), although this is considered to be a rare occurrence.
Tegmina fully developed ; wings longer or shorter than the tegmen; fore coxae without spine; sometimes with small spine; femora spinoses on lower side, fore and mid tibiae with longitudinal upper groove and spinules on margin fore tibiae moderately and gradually widened at bases tympanal opening oval ,exposed and covered by membrane; subgenital plate of male bifurcate with long lobes or tubular, lack apical styles.
Jones the Grocer now exclusively stocks the organic Argan oil, Arganic, made from Argania spinose - one of the oldest plant species in the world.
Mite is globose and structure of skin is interrupted by scaly spinose areas.
Antennae: predominantly pale brown, with distal 1/5 of segment II, distal half of segment III, and all of segment IV darker, segment I bearing 3 erect spinose golden setae, all segments thickly covered with short, appressed pale setae, lengths of segments I-IV = 0.28, 0.95, 0.60, 0.35.
Il grande pregio di questo testo, infatti, risiede esattamente nella brillante e schietta maestria di Carrino di affrontare certe realta spinose che rischiano di smuovere le acque in maniera improvvisa e definitiva negli animi dei lettori.
Hind leg with trochantellus, in dorsal view, 0.7 x as long as the trochanter; hind tibia and tarsus densely spinose; hind tarsal claw with long stout pectinae to the end.
7b), that are similar to the 'spinose elements' of the Mahto assemblage (see Butterfietd 2008, fig.
13 x 9.7 cm, densely brown lepidote on both sides, dark castaneous toward the base, coarsely spinose at the apex; blades sublinear, slightly narrowed toward the base, suberect-arcuate, 22-30 x 4.7-5 cm, inconspicuously and sparsely white-lepidote near the apex to glabrescent, green, lustrous mainly abaxially, apex acuminate and apiculate, margins densely and coarsely spinose at the base with spines 2-5 x 1.5-2 mm, narrowly triangular, dark castaneous, straight to retrorse-uncinate, 4-8 mm apart, margins toward the apex laxly spinose, spines triangular, prevailing retrorse-uncinate, 1-2 x 1 mm, 7-15 mm apart.
It also controls Gulf Coast ticks and spinose ear ticks and is effective against American dog ticks, cattle fever ticks, lone star ticks, and face flies.
Fruit gibbous, 1719 mm x 12mm, acute or obtuse on both ends, smooth or scarcely spinose, dehiscence explosive; peduncle 32-43 mm long.
Sm.), and those with strongly armed, spinose, thickly-fleshy leaves.