The style is persistent on the fruit with white feathery hairs, functioning as a wind-dispersal agent.

The achenes are beaked and some species have feathery hairs attached to them.

The achenes have no pappus ( feathery hairs ), but do have toothed scales on top.

As in other species of Cirsium ( but unlike species in the related genus Carduus ), the pappus hairs are feathery with fine side hairs.

The coat must be short and dense, not long or feathery, and of a pale fawn or tan color with varying amounts of sable guard hairs.

The antennae of the males are feathery, while the females ' are thinner and with fewer hairs.

In some species, such as Dandelion or Eupatorium, feathery bristles of the pappus function as a " parachute " which enables the seed to be carried by the wind.

They have three pairs of external red feathery gills, a blunt head with two rudimentary eyes, a lateral line system and a short tail with fins.

The newt tadpoles look initially like small fish fry, but later become more similar to miniature adults, but with " feathery " external gills emerging from behind the head on either side.

close up of flower head showing purple stamen ( 3 per floret ) and feathery stigma ( 2 per floret )

The feathery flower head plumes, when dried, are widely used in flower arrangements and other ornamental displays.

Even with modern classification, a mature cumulonimbus with its flat base, heaped midsection, and feathery top, along with accessory clouds that can appear in a variety of shapes and forms, has a composite structure that has led to a partial revival, initially by NASA, of the old nimbiform designation that uses the more restricted cumulonimbiform category name.

This produces a characteristic feathery, delicate border around the color area, which can be enhanced or partially shaped by tilting the paper surface before the water dries, shaping the diffusion with surface water flow.

alt = A cluster of modules and feathery solar arrays floats in the middle distance before an image of the Earth and the blackness of space above its horizon.

" The novel notes its " Veined-marble arches with flanking fire-fountains ... spewed feathery arcs of perfumed oils ; blue flames consumed much of the fuel before the droplets fell into the lozenge-shaped reflecting pools.

Another group of radiate fibrous growths resembling spherulites in many respects consists of minute feathery crystals spreading outwards through a fine grained or glassy rock.

Angel girl A shy girl who have two large, white, feathery wings sprouting out of her back.

Once a leak has formed due to corrosion of the outer steel shell, potassium hydroxide absorbs carbon dioxide from the air to form a feathery crystalline structure of potassium carbonate that grows and spreads out from the battery over time, following along metal electrodes to circuit boards where it commences oxidation of copper tracks and other components, leading to permanent circuitry damage.

The 37th moved out in a feathery snowfall at 0600 hours on 22 December 1944, attacking northward against German airborne troops.

** The longest drive ever recorded with a feathery ball, 361 yards, is achieved by Samuel Messieux at Elysian Fields.

More commonly used in the days of hand-made feathery balls when the cost of replacing a ball would be greater than the fore caddy's fee.

Unlike hoar frost, which has a feathery appearance, rime generally has an icy solid appearance.

There are six pairs of thoracic limbs, referred to as " cirri ", which are feathery and very long, being used to filter food from the water and move it towards the mouth.

In one large group of sea slugs, the gills are arranged as a rosette of feathery plumes on their backs, which gives rise to their other name, nudibranchs.

* The soft feathery material which protects the fruiting part of a thistle.

Hard rime formations are difficult to shake off ; they have a comb-like appearance, unlike soft rime, which looks feathery or spiky, or clear ice, which looks homogeneous and transparent.

It has feathery antennae, which are used to filter plankton and detritus from the swash.

It is a feathery light rock which is calcified from algae filtered by sand and pond scum.

However, the yarrow has feathery looking leaves which are pinnately separated into small narrow segments.

The common feature of this class is a pair of long, feathery, contractile tentacles, which can be retracted into specialised ciliated sheaths.

These coarsely spherulitic rocks pass over into the variolites by increasing coarseness in the fibers of their spherulites, which soon become recognizable as needles of feldspar or feathery growths of augite.

Most of the flowers in each inflorescence abort, elongating into yellowish-pink to pinkish-purple feathery plumes ( when viewed en masse these have a wispy ' smoke-like ' appearance, hence the common name ) which surround the small ( 2-3 mm ) drupaceous fruit that do develop.

It is not its fluorescent colors that make this Tetra so distinct, but rather its tail fin, which develops into a most beautiful grayish violet feathery appendage with white edges.

The seeds are 4 – 5 mm long, with a feathery pappus which assists in wind dispersal.

However the yarrow has feathery looking leaves which are pinnately separated into small narrow segments.

However the yarrow has feathery looking leaves which are pinnately separated into small narrow segments .< Ref > The cow parsnip ( heracleum lanatum, Heracleum maxinium Indian Celery or Pushki, and Heracleum sphondylium, hogweed ) is also confused in this group with similar flower groupings.

Many plants, mostly ferns and mosses but also some flowering plants, disperse on the wind, relying on tiny spores or feathery seeds that can remain airborne over long distances notably Metrosideros trees from New Zealand spread on the wind across Oceania.

The feathery achenes are dispersed by wind ( anemochory ).

Reaching for an old clay pot, relic of pioneer days, he tore the envelope in pieces, dropping them into it, touching the little pyre to flame, watching it curl, the red sealing wax melting and bubbling in the feathery ash.

At hatching, a typical salamander larva has eyes without lids, teeth in both upper and lower jaws, three pairs of feathery external gills and a long, somewhat laterally flattened body and tail with dorsal and ventral fins.

English folklore tradition holds that Jack Frost, an elfish creature, is responsible for feathery patterns of frost found on windows on cold mornings.

Image: Saskatoon-Frost. jpg |< center > Large feathery crystals

The small white, feathery flowers, with ten-cleft calyx and corolla, two stamens and bifid stigma, are borne generally on the previous year's wood, in racemes springing from the axils of the leaves.

Besides kaffir lime leaves, several other tree leaves are use in Thai cuisine such as cha-om, the young feathery leaves of the Acacia pennata tree, used cooked in omelettes, soups and curries and raw in salads of the Northern Thai cuisine.

Modern animals that possess feathery or furry coats, like Velociraptor did, tend to be warm-blooded, since these coverings function as insulation.

* Angel-A millionaire heir, capable of flight by means of two feathery wings extending from his back.

In Ottoman art the large and feathery leaves called saz became very popular, and were elaborated in drawings showing just one or more large leaves.

Instead of internal gills, they develop three feathery external gills that grow from the outer surface of the gill arches.

They may be simple and unbranched, or they may be feathery in pattern.

Other South African species are: T. arvense, hare's-foot trefoil ; found in fields and dry pastures, a soft hairy plant with minute white or pale pink flowers and feathery sepals ; T. fragiferum, orange clover, with hot-grounded, globose, rose-purple heads and swollen calyxes ; T. procumbens, hop trefoil, on dry pastures and roadsides, the heads of pale yellow flowers suggesting miniature hops ; and the somewhat similar T. minus, common in pastures and roadsides, with smaller heads and small yellow flowers turning dark brown.

Asparagus is a herbaceous, perennial plant growing to tall, with stout stems with much-branched feathery foliage.

The plant grows to between 20 – 50 cm ( 8 – 20 inches ) high and has small feathery leaves on either side of the stem.

The adult males of most species are strong fliers with well-developed wings and feathery antennae but survive only long enough to reproduce due to underdeveloped mouthparts that prevent them from feeding.

Moths, on the other hand, often have comb-like or feathery antennae, or filamentous and unclubbed.

The Nematocera are recognized by their elongated bodies and feathery antennae as represented by mosquitoes and crane flies.

The feathery aspect of this is still reflected in the presence of the bedding company named Fogarty, located nearby in Fishtoft.