It is roughly shaped like a large pear, and when properly ripened, its dark green skin covers a meaty, melon-like pulp that has about the consistency of a ripe Bartlett pear, but oily.

They usually have long hind limbs that fold underneath them, shorter forelimbs, webbed toes with no claws, no tails, large eyes and glandular moist skin.

A caecilian's skin has a large number of transverse folds and in some species contains tiny embedded dermal scales.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá was at this point noted for having black hair which flowed to his shoulders, large blue eyes, alabaster coloured skin and a slight Roman nose.

They showed that a powerful man was buried in a large barrow, c 575, on a bear skin with two dogs and rich grave offerings.

The skin underneath the dark areas may serve as windows for thermoregulation, being sites for complex blood vessel systems and large sweat glands.

Jordanes also recounted how Priscus had described Attila the Hun, the Emperor of the Huns from 434-453, as: " Short of stature, with a broad chest and a large head ; his eyes were small, his beard thin and sprinkled with grey ; and he had a flat nose and tanned skin, showing evidence of his origin.

A kora is a harp built from a large calabash cut in half and covered with cow skin to make a resonator with a long hardwood neck.

# Perch: coming from Nile, its skin is recognizable with its large, round and soft scales.

A large piece of skin was found by workmen on the elevator on 6 February 1987.

As such, nicotinamide has not been shown to produce the flushing, itching, and burning sensations of the skin as is commonly seen when large doses of nicotinic acid are administered orally.

* Manzanilla, a large, rounded-oval fruit, with purple-green skin, originated in Dos Hermanas, Seville, in southern Spain.

* Patch ( dermatology ), large discolored section of skin

* Dapple Dandy: large size with mottled pale green, red-spotted skin, red or pink juicy flesh, late season, firm fleshed and easily shipped

* King Kong: very large size with black skin, plum-like flavor with hints of almond

* Flavor Fall: large size, average flavor, red skin with yellow flesh, very late season

* Dapple Dandy: large size with mottled pale green to yellow, red-spotted skin, red or pink juicy flesh, firm flesh, moderately late ripening.

* Emerald Drop: medium to large size, green skin and yellow-orange flesh, moderately late ripening

* Flavor Fall: large size, average flavor, red skin with yellow flesh, late ripening

* Flavor Finale: medium to large size, purple-red skin with amber-red flesh, exceptional complex flavor, late ripening

* Flavor Supreme: medium or large, greenish purple skin, juicy red flesh

* Flavorich: large size, dark purple skin and firm, sweet, yellow-orange flesh, moderately late ripening

Because of the very large nature of such roofs, it is essential that the outer skin is of a highly impermeable material.

* Noah's Ark, according to Abrahamic religions, a large boat built by Noah to keep him safe, together with his family and a core breeding stock of the world ’ s animals

The Quinte area played a vital role in bootlegging during Prohibition in the United States, with large volumes of booze being produced in the area, and shipped via boat on the Bay to Lake Ontario finally arriving in New York State where it was distributed.

A large state marina and boat launch is located at the southern end of the lake in Ithaca ( Allan H. Treman State Marine Park, the largest inland marina in New York ).

An important development came in 1884 with, a large torpedo boat with six 47 mm quick-firing guns and three torpedo tubes.

The Royal Navy began experiments with the " torpedo boat catcher ", a class of 17 large torpedo boats.

The friction brake was adjusted according to a rower's weight to give an accurate appraisal of boat-moving ability ( drag on a boat is proportional to weight ). Inferior copies of Harrison's machine were produced in several countries utilising a smaller flywheel and leather straps-unfortunately the leather straps were sensitive to humidity, and the relatively large braking area made results far less accurate than Harrison's machine.

Due to many people missing, she collected a large sum of money in her boat.

The vessel's crew observed sonar readings of a large object keeping pace with the boat at a depth of.

In the powerboat part of the multihull spectrum we find a range of boats from small single pilot Formula 1 power boat series to the large multi-engined or even gas turbined power boats that are used in the off-shore powerboat racing series and that are piloted by 2 to 4 pilots.

The boat needed to be stable and fast with the large crew hence making it ideal for its modern racing usage.

This force can be considered as split into a small force acting in the direction of travel, as well as a large sideways force that heels ( tips ) the boat.

Sailing close-hauled under a large amount of sail, and heeling a great deal, can induce weather helm, or a tendency for the boat to turn into the wind.

The costs of participating in the high end large boat competitions make this type of sailing one of the most expensive sports in the world.

In one case in 1936, a large shark leapt completely into the South African fishing boat Lucky Jim, knocking a crewman into the sea.

Today Mazara is widely considered to be one of the most important fishing centres of Italy ; tussles about fishing rights, especially with the North-African countries, figure large in the town's recent history, boat sequestrations being a common event.

Trolling from a moving boat is a technique of big-game fishing and is used to catch large open-water species such as tuna and marlin.

Apart from tourism, which is a major employer locally, especially in the hotel, hospitality industry and catering sectors, other industries in the town are boat building and maintenance, bicycles, mechanical and electrical engineering, food manufacture, Information Technology, call centre and service sector activities, a large motor sales sector, industrial plant hire, building suppliers, market gardening, farming, storage and transport logistics, finance and insurance, and a large retail sector.

The resistance to motion along the smallest cross section is low while resistance to motion across the large cross section is high, so the boat moves forward rather than sideways.

Winston Churchill ordered any ship or boat available, large or small, to pick up the stranded soldiers, and 338, 226 men ( including 123, 000 French soldiers ) were evacuated – the miracle of Dunkirk, as Churchill called it.

The god Enki ( lord of the underworld sea of fresh water and Sumerian equivalent of Babylonian god Ea ) warns Ziusudra, the ruler of Shuruppak, to build a large boat ; the passage describing the directions for the boat is also lost.