The Devonian fossil plant Runcaria resembles a seed but lacks a solid seed coat and means to guide pollen

Despite its location, both the core and the pollen record recovered from Lake Tulane completely lacks any indication of any abrupt, catastrophic environmental disruptions, which the mega-tsunamis proposed by the Tollmann bolide hypothesis would have caused.

For example, consider a man who possesses the virtues of justice, prudence, and fortitude, yet lacks temperance.

It is unprecedented for a Slayer to have a twin and, as an odd side-effect of this, Harth possesses the prophetic dreams and visions of past Slayers that Mel lacks.

She possesses a unique perspective on life, in that she lacks the normal human ability to ignore things which do not fit in with a logical world-view: in Soul Music, she is able to acknowledge the enormous size of the rooms in Death's Domain, whereas most humans can only deal with the incomprehensible vastness by pretending it is not there ; Hogfather reveals that she shares the ability of witches, wizards and young children to see things which are invisible to most people, such as the tooth fairy, monsters and bogeymen ; in Thief of Time, she is able to identify the historical anomalies created by the History Monks ' reconstruction of the shattered timeline.

The first segment is large and usually provided with a pair of legs, the last segment is slender, lacks legs, and possesses a pair of cerci.

In game theory, a kingmaker is a player who lacks sufficient resources or position to win at a given game, but possesses enough remaining resources to decide which of the remaining viable players will eventually win.

Barnacle Boy possesses powers similar to Mermaid Man, though he lacks the powers of the utility belt.

For example, a modern car is better suited for transporting human occupants than a Model T because the newer vehicle possesses numerous design improvements the older one lacks.

Jack, eternally imprisoned aboard the Black Pearl in Davy Jones ' Locker, lacks a successor and possesses one of the nine " pieces of eight " that each pirate lord carries and must bring to the meeting ; Jack must attend.

The reason is that the world lacks a nation which possesses true leadership.

The species lacks the large scales on the upper surface of its head, characteristic of other species of cyclura and possesses larger dorsal spines than other species of iguana.

The reason is that the world lacks a nation which possesses true leadership.

But for this, he needs Dinah's DNA – combining it with a lizard to create Eve, a human / lizard hybrid who possesses Dinah's intellect but lacks her emotions – and then put her into terrible danger, pitting her against Eve to test his theories.

P. l. lesueurii tends towards white, yellow and red on the throat and possesses a dark band behind its eye ; P. l. howitti lacks this and instead has dark bands on either side of its throat, which is blotched with yellow, orange, or blue.

Unlike mainstream medicine, CAM often lacks or has only limited experimental and clinical study ; however, scientific investigation of CAM is beginning to address this knowledge gap.

Satisfied with his plan, Pseudolus steals Hysterium's book of potions and has Hero read him the recipe for the sleeping potion ; the only ingredient he lacks is " mare's sweat ," and Pseudolus goes off in search of some.

The price conveys embedded information about the abundance of resources as well as their desirability which in turn allows, on the basis of individual consensual decisions, corrections that prevent shortages and surpluses ; Mises and Hayek argued that this is the only possible solution, and without the information provided by market prices socialism lacks a method to rationally allocate resources.

Most significantly, Honduras lacks abundant natural resources ; only land appears to be plentiful and readily exploitable.

He taught them that true Divine service consisted of not only religious scholarship, but also a sincere love of God combined with warm faith and belief in the efficacy of prayer ; that the ordinary person filled with a sincere belief in God, and whose prayers come from the heart, is more acceptable to God than someone versed in and fully observant of Jewish law who lacks inspiration in his divine service.

Such a grouping is not a true political party because it lacks the cement of a common philosophy of government, having only a narrow objective to hold it together until the objective is either attained or lost ".

It only lacks a good port and suitable landing places, without which the island is of no use, but with them it would be of the greatest importance for Great Britain.

For example, an engineer with great technical skill might get promoted to project manager, only to discover he lacks the interpersonal skills required to lead a team.

Not only can such an undertaking be an exercise in futility, but this approach lacks even a minimal amount of precision such that parties might be able to predict outcomes and results during litigation.

The Saturn version lacks multiplayer but has most of the maps from the original game, with only the secret levels ( Ziggurat Vertigo ( E1M8 ), The Underearth ( E2M7 ), The Haunted Halls ( E3M7 ) and The Nameless City ( E4M8 )) not making the cut.

: Only when each people, left to itself, develops and forms itself in accordance with its own peculiar quality, and only when in every people each individual develops himself in accordance with that common quality, as well as in accordance with his own peculiar quality-then, and then only, does the manifestation of divinity appear in its true mirror as it ought to be ; and only a man who either entirely lacks the notion of the rule of law and divine order, or else is an obdurate enemy thereto, could take upon himself to want to interfere with that law, which is the highest law in the spiritual world!

The Athlon 64 does not support HyperThreading and lacks those SSE3 instructions used only for HyperThreading.

Aside from its only single, the album also included the song " The March of the Black Queen ", a six-minute epic which lacks a chorus or song structure, bearing similarity to Queen's later work, " Bohemian Rhapsody ".

The dugong lacks nails on its flippers, which are only 15 % of a dugong's body length.

Physically, the fennec lacks the musk glands of other fox species, and has only 32 chromosome pairs, while other fox species have between 35 and 39.

Compared to QuickBASIC, QBasic is limited to an interpreter only, lacks a few functions, can only handle programs of a limited size, and lacks support for separate program modules.

The modern Nautilus lacks any calcitic plate for closing its shell, and only one extinct nautiloid genus is known to have borne anything similar.

It is the only part of the series designed almost exclusively for multiplayer and / or personal practice only ; it lacks a storyline and numerous cutscenes.

new telephone exchanges provide a large capacity for new subscribers ; trunk traffic is carried by microwave radio relay, coaxial cable, open wire and fiber-optic cable ; a cellular telephone system operates throughout Kuwait, and the country lacks pay telephones.

The Niger River is unsuitable for river transport of any large scale, as it lacks depth for most of the year, and is broken by rapids at many spots.

* A large and highly efficient Mongol army, dispatched under Subutai by Genghis Khan to Georgia, defeats two Georgian armies around Tbilisi, but lacks the will or equipment to besiege the city.

Cyrano Fernández ( 2007 ) is a retelling from Venezuela, set in contemporary times, in which Cyrano is disfigured but lacks the large nose.

Black Sea water has become cleaner after 1989 due to decreased chemical fertilizer in farming ; it has low salinity, lacks large predators or poisonous species, and the tidal range is virtually imperceptible.

The lower half of the gill cover lacks scales and they have large sensory pores on their head and on the underside of the lower jaw which are part of the lateral line system.

It is based around a large planned community named Hunter's Creek, though the CDP name given by the United States Census Bureau lacks the apostrophe.

Many programmers today might refer to C as low-level, as it lacks a large runtime-system ( no garbage collection, etc.

However, many programmers today might refer to C as low-level, as it lacks a large runtime-system ( no garbage collection etc.

The race L. s. badius of the western Mediterranean lacks the large white wing patches.

This large orchid lacks pseudobulbs.

This may explain why the genome lacks the large stretches of non-coding DNA characteristic of other parasites.

Many believe this is a major difference between the orchestra — which usually lacks a large battery of percussion — and the concert band.

This large bulky bunting is 16 – 19 cm long, has male and female plumages similar, and lacks the showy male colours, especially on the head, common in the genus Emberiza.

He lacks use of three fingers of left hand, walks with his legs rather wide apart, speaks somewhat peculiarly as though his tongue were too large for his mouth, and is a great boaster.

This caprimulguid has a large, flattened head with large eyes ; facially it lacks rictal bristles.

While this system lacks the versatility of other miniatures games, mainly because players cannot customize their figures, it makes up for this by facilitating rapid gameplay and by having a large number of distinctive figures.

Although Alberta lacks a preponderance of notable large art galleries, many small galleries which focus on local artists and artisans exist in the major centres.

In addition, the Richat structure lacks the annular depression that characterizes large extraterrestrial impact structures of this size.

Rutilius may lack the genius of Claudian, but also lacks his overloaded gaudiness and his large exaggeration ; and the directness of Rutilius shines in comparison with the labored complexity of Ausonius.

Because of the relatively small 1. 37 " ( 36 mm for shells threaded to the Italian standard ) diameter shell, designs that place the bearings inside the shell can either have large bearings and a thinner spindle, which lacks stiffness, or smaller bearings and a thicker spindle ( such as the original Shimano Octalink ), which is stiff but less durable.

Though relatively large, it lacks both a cafe and a petrol station.