Lexicographical Neighbors of Flammules
Literary usage of Flammules
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reprint of the Original Descriptions of the Genus Achatinella by E. W. Thwing (1907)
"Color light brownish-red, darker on the spire, interspersed with irregular, zigzag
yellowish white flammules forming spots on the periphery, and absent on ..."
2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1918)
"Marked with flammules or longitudinal stripes (or uniform white?); varix behind
lip well developed A. subangulata Pse. o1. Whorls not ridged or striate, ..."
3. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia by Royal Society of South Australia (1905)
"... and articulated deep pink just above and below the suture, and green and red
tints instead of light ashen-grey with darker buff flammules. ..."
4. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1864)
"... the shape is ventricose, the surface reticulated, and the color dusky smoky,
with numerous delicate chestnut flammules (5 to the inch). In the tf. ..."
5. A History of British Mollusca and Their Shells by Edward Forbes, Sylvanus Charles Thorp Hanley (1853)
"The colouring consists of linear zigzag markings, flammules, or angular spots of
white, greenish, or flesh-colour, upon a ground of rufous or Turkey red, ..."
6. American Journal of Conchology by George Washington Tryon, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Conchological Section (1867)
"... undulating, reddish flammules or lines ; whorls 4, slightly convex, the last
rib carinate at its periphery, base convex; columella short, vertical, ..."
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