Occasionally, when he had an unusual flower that he wanted more of he did ; ;

Some species, especially those with unusual bill shapes such as the Sword-billed Hummingbird and the sicklebills, are co-evolved with a small number of flower species.

The specific epithet octopetala derives from the Greek octo ( eight ) and petalon ( petal ), referring to the eight petals of the flower, an unusual number in the Rosaceae, where five is the normal number.

Both species are unusual in that they mainly grow only in spring, which means that the flower heads ( which blossom in late summer ) are outside the bulk of the foliage and very visible.

Along with Cypripedium, Mexipedium, Phragmipedium and Selenipedium, the genus is a member of the subfamily Cypripedioideae, commonly referred to as the " lady's-slippers " or " slipper orchids " due to the unusual shape of the pouch-like labellum of the flower.

It has been crossed with both cybister and single flower cultivars to produce hybrids with unusual striping.

The second form is Romanesco broccoli, which is characterised by the striking and unusual fractal patterns of its flower head.

It is not unusual for the other two petals of an orchid flower to look like the sepals, so that the labellum stands out as distinct.

She took on the unusual stage name of UA ( a Swahili word that means both " flower " and " kill ") and made her debut with the Fujiwara-produced " Horizon ".

Constance Spry ransacked attics for unusual objects to use as containers and drew inspiration from the Dutch 17th and 18th-century flower painters, while she popularized unusual plant materials to offset flowers, like pussy willow, weeds and grasses and ornamental kale.

Perhaps the only part of Rafflesia that is identifiable as distinctly plant-like are the flowers ; although, even these are unusual since they attain massive proportions, have a reddish-brown coloration and stink of rotting flesh, which is why it was nicknamed the " corpse flower ".

Several other fine snowdrops originated at her garden at South Hayes in Oxfordshire, including the unusual cultivar named G. ' South Hayes ' which has strong green markings on the outer " petals " ( actually tepals ) of the flower.

The unusual domed ceiling represents a passion flower surrounded by lotuses.

A common name is flying goldfish plants ( see also the related Nematanthus ) due to the unusual flower shape.

An advanced student has read a considerable number of descriptions of consonantal systems, including some of the more unusual types.

Manchester's unusual interest in telegraphy has often been attributed to the fact that the Rev. J. D. Wickham, headmaster of Burr and Burton Seminary, was a personal friend and correspondent of the inventor, Samuel F. B. Morse.

He has given only the one pass in his 27 innings, an unusual characteristic for a southpaw.

Neither Mantle nor Maris need fear being classified an intellectual, but lately Mantle has shown unusual devotion to an intellectual opus, Henry Miller's `` Tropic of Cancer ''.

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 ).

The first player's bowl has come to rest just in front of the jack ; the second has delivered his bowl and is following after it with one of those eccentric contortions still not unusual on modern greens, the first player meanwhile making a repressive gesture with his hand, as if to urge the bowl to stop short of his own ; the third player is depicted as in the act of delivering his bowl.

It has also been observed that another peculiarity of the book is that it substitutes more modern and more common expressions for those that had then become unusual or obsolete.

Occasionally, a film can become the object of a cult following within a particular region or culture if it has some unusual significance to that region or culture.

The United Kingdom also operates a formal coalition cabinet between the Conservative and the Liberal Democrat parties, but this is unusual because the UK normally has a majority government.

Crete has an unusual variety of insects.

Its reproductive success is partly because of opportunistic feeding: it has a diet, unusual among anurans, of both dead and living matter.

Also, if a caller has an unusual name, they will inquire about the spelling, pronunciation, and / or origin of their name.

Oral transmission is an unusual route of infection, but has been described.

Caste system in Islam has several unusual features.

Scholarly debate over the interpretation of these passages has focused on placing them in proper historical context, for instance pointing out that Sodom's sins are historically interpreted as being other than homosexuality, and on the translation of rare or unusual words in the passages in question.

Stephen Baxter has imagined perhaps some of the most unusual exotic life-forms in his Xeelee series of novels and stories, including supersymmetric photino-based life that congregate in the gravity wells of stars, entities composed of quantum wave functions, and the Qax, who thrive in any form of convection cells, from swamp gas to the atmospheres of gas giants.

Boron carbide, B < sub > 4 </ sub > C, on the other hand, has an unusual structure which includes icosahedral boron units linked by carbon atoms.

* Ectopic testis, a testis that has moved to an unusual location

Each character also has Powers representing unusual abilities.

It has been used in many Russian movies-like Solaris-to produce unusual, " cosmic " sounds.

According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, " the Federal Reserve has the authority and financial resources to act as ' lender of last resort ' by extending credit to depository institutions or to other entities in unusual circumstances involving a national or regional emergency, where failure to obtain credit would have a severe adverse impact on the economy.

The transportation system in Greenland is very unusual in that Greenland has no railways, no inland waterways, and virtually no roads between towns.

Nevertheless, Wells has this very same Time Traveller speak in terms unusual for socialist thought, referring as " perfect " and with no social problem unsolved, to an imagined world of stark class division between the rich assured of their wealth and comfort, and the rest of humanity assigned to lifelong toil: Once, life and property must have reached almost absolute safety.

The only thing unusual about the Old Man had long since happened.

As long as her development within her shell lived up to expectations, and there were no side-effects from the pituitary tinkering, Helva would live a rewarding, rich and unusual life, a far cry from what she would have faced as an ordinary, `` normal '' being.

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 >

The discovery image gave the first hint that comet Shoemaker – Levy 9 was an unusual comet, as it appeared to show multiple nuclei in an elongated region about 50 arcseconds long and 10 arcseconds wide.

Between 1892 and 1914 destroyers became markedly larger: initially 420 tons with a length of for the US Navy's first Bainbridge class of torpedo boat destroyers, up to the First World War with long destroyers displacing 1000 tons was not unusual.

Not long after that, in 1883, Georg Cantor, who attended lectures by Weierstrass, published examples of subsets of the real line known as Cantor sets, which had unusual properties and are now recognized as fractals.

The Gloranthan world is characterised by its complex use of mythology, heavily influenced by the universalist approaches of Joseph Campbell and Mircea Eliade, its Howardian ethos, its long and distinctive history as a setting for role-playing games, its community development and expansion, and ( unusual among early American fantasy role-playing games ) its relative lack of Tolkienesque influence.

Loch Ness, because of its long, straight shape, is subject to some unusual ripples affecting its surface.

BO Microscopii is a rapidly rotating star, and PSR J2144-3933 is an unusual pulsar with an unusually long rotation period.

This was unusual ; it was customary for men of the Early Middle Ages to wear their hair at or near the shoulders, which made Childeric's hair exceptionally long even by Merovingian standards.

Thus, it is unusual nowadays for the identification of a chemical as a neurotransmitter to remain controversial for very long periods of time.

Knowledge of the North American Medieval Warm Period has been useful in dating occupancy periods of certain Native American habitation sites, especially in arid parts of the western U. S. Review of more recent archaeological research shows that as the search for signs of unusual cultural changes during the MWP has broadened, some of these early patterns ( for example, violence and health problems ) have been found to be more complicated and regionally varied than previously thought while others ( for example, settlement disruption, deterioration of long distance trade, and population movements ) have been further corroborated.

Yet the Poem contains many delicate touches of passion, and indeed the passion is every where true to nature, a great number of the stanzas present beautiful images, and are expressed with unusual felicity of language ; and the versification, though the metre is itself unfit for long poems, is harmonious and artfully varied, exhibiting the utmost powers of that metre, and every variety of which it is capable.

The largest of them is 70 m long by 25 m broad, and has 6 columns in front and 18 in length, a very unusual proportion.

The main street is long for a town of its size and is unusual because all of the shops were built in the 1950s.

Hippies often chose brightly-colored clothing and wore unusual styles, such as bell-bottom pants, vests, tie-dyed garments, dashikis, peasant blouses, and long, full skirts ; non-Western inspired clothing with Native American, Asian, Indian, African and Latin American motifs were also popular.

Penelope is recognizable in Greek and Roman works, from Attic vase-paintings — the Penelope Painter is recognized by his representations of her — to Roman sculpture copying or improvising upon classical Greek models, by her seated pose, by her reflective gesture of leaning her cheek on her hand, and by her protectively crossed knees, reflecting her long chastity in Odysseus ' absence, an unusual pose in any other figure.

Pigments from unusual sources such as botanical materials, animal waste, insects, and mollusks were harvested and traded over long distances.

This high level of endemism can be attributed to the continent's long geographic isolation, tectonic stability, and the effects of an unusual pattern of climate change on the soil and flora over geological time.

The granite islands are the world ’ s oldest ocean islands, while the outer islands are mainly very young, though the Aldabra group and St Pierre ( Farquhar Group ) are unusual, raised coral islands that have emerged and submerged several times during their long history, the most recent submergence dating from about 125, 000 years ago.

The lithographs are long, narrow verticals, and while they feature Miró's familiar shapes, there's an unusual emphasis on texture.

Although severe weather is unusual and generally forecast, it has claimed several lives over the years, including a party of five soldiers and one naval rating, caught in a week long storm while undergoing winter survival training in 1990.

The probes were optimized for surface operations with an unusual looking design that included a spherical compartment to protect the electronics from atmospheric pressure and heat for as long as possible.

Hagfish are long and vermiform, and can exude copious quantities of a slime or mucus ( from which the typical species Myxine glutinosa was named ) of unusual composition.