The new polyurethane elastic bumpers were integrated into the nose and tail and covered in body-coloured plastic ; an unusual feature for the time that aided the car visually and reduced its drag.

The Allied Pilots Association, in its submission to the NTSB, argued that the unusual sensitivity of the rudder mechanism amounted to a design flaw which Airbus should have communicated to the airline, and pointed to ten previous incidents in which A300 tail fins had been stressed beyond their design limitation.

This breed is unusual in that it has no tail.

Although dissimilar, Egyptian and Bearded Vultures both have a lozenge-shaped tail that is unusual among birds of prey.

A large, heavily built, herbivorous quadruped, Stegosaurus had a distinctive and unusual posture, with a heavily rounded back, short forelimbs, head held low to the ground and a stiffened tail held high in the air.

Terns in the genus Sterna have deeply forked tails, those in Chlidonias and Larosterna shallowly forked tails, while the noddies ( genera Anous, Procelsterna, Gygis ) have unusual ' notched wedge ' shaped tails, the longest tail feathers being the middle-outer, not the central nor the outermost.

They have a number of distinctive features, including an unusual structure to the jaw, and the presence of an additional bone in the tail.

Since the Snark lacked a horizontal tail surface, it used elevons as its primary flight control surfaces, and it flew with an unusual nose-high angle during level flight.

Signs of a sick bird can be ( but not limited to ) runny eyes, sluggish behavior, unusually colored droppings ( esp indicating blood in the digestive tract ), sleeping more than normal, droopy wings, tail bobbing when sleeping ( indicating difficulty in breathing ), sleeping on the bottom of the cage ( birds naturally want to be high on a perch ), unusual behavior, feather plucking, biting themselves, and a drop in appetite are a few symptoms of illness.

The uakaris are unusual among New World monkeys in that the tail length ( 15-18 cm ) is substantially less than their head and body length ( 40-45 cm ).

Apart from its unusual plumage pattern and habitat, the Forest Wagtail differs from its Motacilla relatives in its strange habit of swaying its tail from side to side, not wagging it up and down like other wagtails.

These 40-cm long fishes have an unusual appearance ; they have wing-like pectoral fins, a pointed dorsal fin and a long whip-like tail.

Goku has a similar backstory, only his unusual feature is his monkey tail.

The tail was also long, and had an unusual structure within its interlocking prezygapophysis of its vertebrae, which formed a semi-rigid lattice, apparently to stop the tail from moving up and down.

The neural spine of the eleventh vertebra was fractured and healed while the neural spine of its third tail vertebra had an unusual hook-like structure.

The classic golden shade akin to that of a newly minted gold coin is common, but there are other variations: the darkest shades are called sooty palominos, unusual but most often seen in Morgans, can include a mane and tail with darker hairs and heavy dappling in the coat.

It was also unusual in that the spectrum of its tail showed a strong predominance of the ion CO +, a result previously seen unambiguously only in Comet Morehouse ( C / 1908 R1 ).

This breed is unusual in that it has no tail.

The dried lumber is a rich chocolate-brown to black, with cream to tan sapwood, and may feature unusual figures, such as " curly ", " bee's wing ", " bird's eye ", and " rat tail ", among others.

The specimen displayed an unusual " black material " around the base of the tail, containing several calcium carbonate spherules, suggesting a quite noticeable amount of muscle behind the animal's hips.

The very high residual stress within the drop gives rise to unusual qualities, such as the ability to withstand a blow from a hammer on the bulbous end without breaking, while the drop will disintegrate explosively if the tail end is even slightly damaged.

The describers argue that Jeholopterus had a short tail, a feature seen in other anurognathids but unusual for " rhamphorhynchoid " ( i. e. basal ) pterosaurs that typically have a long tail.

I want the room in the attic prepared for him He is a most unusual lad, quite precocious in many ways.

Since the hazards of poor communication are so great, p can be justified as a habitable site only on the basis of unusual productivity such as is made available by a waterfall for milling purposes, a mine, or a sugar maple camp.

The most unusual of them is the Ithaca 49 ( about $20, $5 for a saddle scabbard ) -- a lever-action single-shot patterned after the famous Winchester lever-action and featuring the Western look.

the former figure is based on a somewhat unusual birth of four by a Central American female ( see chapter on Laying, Brooding, Hatching, and Birth ), the latter on a `` normal '' newly born individual.

The most unusual feature of Boris, however, is the use of the greatest character of all, the chorus.

After a while there come initials and names, and he is interested to hear some rather unusual family nicknames.

On December 9, 1862, Sergeant Edwin H. Fay, an unusual Louisianan who held A.B. and M.A. degrees from Harvard University and who before the war was headmaster of a private school for boys in Louisiana, wrote his wife: `` I saw Pemberton and he is the most insignificant puke I ever saw.

There is clear evidence that Lucy from childhood had an unusual mind.

One is not sure who emerges as the main personality of this book -- Mijbil, with his rollicking ways, or Maxwell himself, poet, portrait painter, writer, journalist, traveller and zoologist, sensitive but never sentimental recorder of an unusual way of life, in a language at once lyrical and forceful, vivid and unabashed.

Doc Doolittle's scheduled appearance at captain's mast was a very unusual thing, because the discipline dispensed there is ordinarily for the young and immature, and a chief is naturally expected to stay off the report.

An adventure is defined as an exciting or unusual experience ; it may also be a bold, usually risky undertaking, with an uncertain outcome.

In American jurisprudence, under the rules for hearsay, admission of an unsupported affidavit as evidence is unusual ( especially if the affiant is not available for cross-examination ) with regard to material facts which may be dispositive of the matter at bar.

The game is unusual in that no dice are used in resolving conflicts or player actions ; instead a simple diceless system of comparative ability, and narrative description of the action by the players and gamemaster, is used to determine how situations are resolved.

Cysteine is unusual since it has a sulfur atom at the second position in its side-chain, which has a larger atomic mass than the groups attached to the first carbon, which is attached to the α-carbon in the other standard amino acids, thus the ( R ) instead of ( S ).

It is somewhat unusual for directors to be credited co-editors, although the Coen Brothers and Robert Rodriguez have both directed and edited nearly all of their films.

However, there is also evidence that silent reading did occur in antiquity and that it was not generally regarded as unusual.

Perhaps the most unusual thing about the privately operated buses is the fact that they are all highly decorated and personalized, with decaling and home made interior designs that range from comic book scenes, to erotic themes, and even to " Hello Kitty " themes.

The river, named Hamza after the discoverer, an Indian-born scientist Valiya Mannathal Hamza who is working with the National Observatory at Rio, makes it the first and geologically unusual instance of a twin-river system flowing at different levels of the earth's crust in Brazil.

Due to a name which is unusual in Denmark, it is speculated that he was christened on the Danish " Absalon " name day, October 30.

There exist pairs of long and short vowels with overlapping vowel quality giving Australian English phonemic length distinction, which is unusual amongst the various dialects of English, though not unknown elsewhere, such as in regional south-eastern dialects of the UK and eastern seaboard dialects in the US .< ref >