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Their laterally compressed bodies and rough, sandpapery skin inspired the filefish's common name ; it is said that dried filefish skin was once used to finish wooden boats.
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Their and laterally
Their scales are generally pink in color with whitish underbelly and blue-green stripes running laterally along their sides.
Their bodies are laterally compressed, permitting easy movement through the hairs or feathers on the host's body ( or in the case of humans, under clothing ).
Their ears are small with dorsal borders folded laterally.
Their deep, laterally narrow bodies are easily noticed through the profusion of reef life.
Their heads were long and lean, and their eyes opened laterally.
Their orbits face laterally, and the nasal opening had moved even higher up the snout, closer to the position of blowhole in modern cetaceans.
Their skeletons changed so that their limbs were more flexible ( they became less laterally splayed, allowing for faster forward motion ) and they developed a shorter ribcage and larger lungs to allow for faster respiration.
Their body is elongated, deep, and laterally compressed.
Their and compressed
Their bodies are compressed and silvery, and they tend to be small, growing to 50 cm at most.
Their bodies are compressed, elongate and scaleless ; the small, slender pelvic fins ( which are absent in only two species ) are situated before the enlarged pectoral fins, and the tail fin is rounded.
Their flagship product is the Snugpak Softie 3 Merlin, their lightest bag, with a trail weight of 900 grams ( 1 lb 10 oz ), compressed size of 16x16 centimeters ( 6x6 inches ), and minimum comfort rating of 5C ( 41F ).
Their and bodies
Their bodies writhe and they raise and lash their tails which makes it difficult for the predator to avoid contact with their poison-producing granular glands.
As Eversley put it: " Their minds were defeated before their bodies.
Their bodies consist of mesoglea, a non-living jelly-like substance, sandwiched between two layers of epithelium that are mostly one cell thick.
Their bodies are covered by coarse black hair, except for the face, fingers, toes, palms of the hands and soles of the feet.
Their bodies are about long, and their tails are about long.
Their mutilated bodies are dragged through the streets of Rome before being thrown into the Tiber.
Their bodies are soft and unsegmented.
Their bodies were dressed in paper and a digging stick for planting put in their hands.
Their badly decomposed bodies are found by chance 2 months later in July, during the search for 3 civil rights workers – Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner.
Their bodies are then hung by their heels in the public square of Milan.
Their bodies were never recovered.
Their bodies comprise two parts ; their front is voluminous and is tipped with a large " mouth " and a row of five round to oval-shaped features on each side which have been interpreted as gills-or at least openings in the vicinity of the pharynx.
Their paper indicated a high voltage discharge device had been constructed that emitted a horizontal, collimated beam, with sharp borders, of short impulses of a repulsive force field that could penetrate different bodies without any noticeable loss of energy.
Their bodies are large, sturdy, and muscular and are described as having a " cobby " build.
Their bodies lack pigment and are translucent.
Their models suggested that, at the end of the planet formation period, several satellite-sized bodies had formed that could collide with the planets or be captured.
" Their bodies are fantastically painted with charcoal dust, red clay, and chalk.
Their bodies are well adapted to the aquatic habitat where they spend most of their lives.
Their bodies are slender and mid-way between the Oriental and foreign types, with long necks.
In Acts 7: 16, it is said that " Their ( Jacob and his family ) bodies were brought back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a certain sum of money.
Their bodies had been crushed beyond recognition but he completed the gruesome task by correlating their identities to their positions ( loci in Latin ) at the table before his departure.
Their bodies are brought on stage, and the chorus mourns them.
Their bodies would be left dangling until they had been submerged three times by the tide.
Their bodies have segmented sections which makes them move in a wave-like form.
Their and rough
Their long legs and bone structure suggest an animal that was adapted to running at high speeds over rough terrain.
Their vision was to build cars that could withstand the rigors of Sweden's rough roads and cold temperatures.
Their rough endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus were still not well developed, indicating that despite the change in shape, the fibroblasts still remained mostly in a resting phase.
Their rough faces often make excellent surfaces for grinding plant seeds.
Their surface is generally smooth, sometimes rough, mammilated ( knobby ) or otherwise irregular.
Their toe rows of small, elongated horn tacks provide a snowshoe effect that led to the German family name " Rauhfußhühner ", literally translated as " rough feet chickens ".
Their first release was a contribution to the sampler 20 schäumende Stimmungshits ( rough translation: " 20 foamy party hits "), featuring a strong alcohol theme ( for example, the chorus of " Vollmilch " translates as " you drink whiskey, he drinks beer, I drink milk ").
Their frames are often made of steel as it is stronger, more flexible-therefore more comfortable over rough surfaces-and any breakages can technically be repaired virtually anywhere in the world.
Their theory qualitatively predicted the general pattern of coupling constant running, with plausible assumptions, it gave rough mass ratio values between third generation leptons and quarks, and it was the first indication that the law of Baryon number is inexact, that the proton is unstable.
Their appearance also varies: while some patches are rough and spongy, others are flat.
Their heads are rough and may be armed with spines.
Their mimics are widespread and develop a kind of rough and ready jack-of-all-trades mimicry.
Their dorsal side is covered with small bumps, which gives a rough texture and appearance while their ventral side is thin, transparent, and smooth.
Their coats, rough and coarse, change colour with the season ; in summer the colour is reddish-brown, while in winter, it turns dark brown, with males tending to be darker than the females.
Their coins, however, suggest a lack of artistic sophistication: the representations of their kings, such as Kanishka, tend to be crude ( lack of proportion, rough drawing ), and the image of the Buddha is an assemblage of a Hellenistic Buddha statue with feet grossly represented and spread apart in the same fashion as the Kushan king.
Their voices become rough and hoarse, they cough loudly, and the sound is as if air were driven through a wooden tube ".
On November 25, 2008, the band has released an unmastered rough mix of the song " The Dawn Became Their Pride " from the upcoming album.
Their furry, rough skin is black, grey or reddish-brown in color depending upon the species.
Their dwellings were rough shelters of leaf and bast, seldom high.
Their family life is shown to be rough.
Their upper surface is rough and the underside is the same colour as the body.
Their rough skin is white with bluish undertones and is spotted with short tufts of coarse hair, which is well tended and trimmed in highly ritualistic tribal patterns.
Their skin is rough and yellow ( occasionally shading to brown or green ) and their hair is russet, although males commonly shave their heads or retain only a single braid in back, with carefully controlled facial hair.
Their break-up, though somewhat rough, ultimately resolves amicably.
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