holdfast

How To Use holdfast In A Sentence

• The rostellum ends in a holdfast by which the cell is fixed to the gut wall of its host.
• Yuan et al. restricted Baculiphyca to those clavate forms with rhizoidal holdfasts and thus differentiated it from Diaoyapolites, which has a globose holdfast according to Chen and Xiao.
• Crowns commonly have some length of column still attached, and holdfasts, less commonly recognized than crowns, also have some length of column attached.
• Although it does not exist in mussels, dopamine contains two key chemical groups that are present in the crustacean’s holdfast — the part that helps it cling to surfaces. Super Sticky Coating has ‘Mussel’ | Impact Lab
• Baculiphyca taeniata was considered to differ from D. longiconoidalis on the basis of its rhizoidal rather than globose holdfast; however, the difference in holdfasts is probably preservational.
• Lattice panels, wires, or rough surfaces give tendrils and holdfasts a place to latch onto.
• Below them goatfish, wrasses and scorpionfish frolicked amongst the kelp holdfasts.
• Now wrestlers in the Olympian games were naked, and anointed with oil to make them sleek and glibbery, so to afford no holdfast to such as strove with them. Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers.
• The algae were decapitated, clamped with vice grips at their holdfasts, and secured to the bottom of a unidirectional current tank with an ordinary house brick.
• On an ancient stone stump, about three feet thick and three feet high, used for securing ships by ropes to the shore, and called a bollard or holdfast, an elderly gentleman sits facing the land with his head bowed and his face in his hands, sobbing. Back to Methuselah