These muscles consist of ribbon-shaped bands which surround hollow fleshy tubes or cavities. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
The resulting ribbon-shaped fiber bundles are still relatively coarse and thick, which is fine for some uses. From Wordnik.com. [Just the flax, ma'am] Reference
The filament soon broadens into a ribbon-shaped thallus, several cells thick, which is closely applied to the rock. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
Tapeworms are formed by a chain of segments, joined together at their ends, and are flat or ribbon-shaped (Fig. 71). From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
As the blog post makes clear, making them by hand takes a fair amount of skill and practice compared to, say, Italian ribbon-shaped pastas, which are much more amenable to beginner cooks. From Wordnik.com. [Touched By Their Noodly Deliciousness] Reference
He saw an endless plain where things half trees and half animals-except that they were neither, in any Terrestrial sense'lashed snaky fronds after ribbon-shaped flyers a hundred meters in length. From Wordnik.com. [Agent Of The Terran Empire]
Sometimes the lobstermen would capture a monkfish, whose undiscriminating appetite had led him to try to swallow a glass float; or a trap would come to the surface freighted with huge five-fingers or containing a short, ribbon-shaped eel, blood-red from nose to tail-tip. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
The rare, ribbon-shaped sea creature was far from home when it washed ashore in Malibu this week. From Wordnik.com. [latimes.com - News] Reference
LOS ANGELES | The rare, ribbon-shaped sea creature was far from home when it washed ashore in Malibu this week. From Wordnik.com. [Kansas City Star: Front Page] Reference
The street and the adjacent blocks are a ribbon-shaped wasteland of scattered debris, shattered facades and bloodstains. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Aponeuroses are flattened or ribbon-shaped tendons, of a pearly white color, iridescent, glistening, and similar in structure to the tendons. From Wordnik.com. [IV. Myology. 3. Tendons, Aponeuroses, and Fasciæ] Reference
Well, during the month of October, forget about all the calories and go and grab one of 7 Eleven's pink ribbon-shaped donuts in support of Breast Cancer Awareness. From Wordnik.com. [phillyBurbs.com] Reference
"Coiled round the upper part of the arch, with its head resting directly upon that of the figure of which you speak, was a monstrous, ribbon-shaped creature, whose flat, reddish body, at least a meter in width and apparently thirty meters long, and bordered with a sort of floating frill of a pinkish color, undulated with a motion that turned us sick at heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Deluge] Reference
7-Eleven Inc. is baking fresh ribbon-shaped donuts every day this October to benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Ark News] Reference
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