- the "Avosetta of the Italians".
Avocets have long legs and long, thin,
upcurved bills which they
sweep from side to side when
feeding in the
brackish or...
- Monodontidae. The
narwhal has a
robust body with a short,
blunt snout,
small upcurved flippers, and
convex to
concave tail flukes.
Adults measure 3.0 to 5.5 m...
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diameter up to 1 m (3 ft). The
trunk is
vertical and
branches horizontal to
upcurved. The bark is dark gray-brown to near black,
deeply furrowed, with long...
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Compsocryptus by its "moderately short,
straight ovipositor rather than a
longer upcurved one,
axillus vein
closer to anal
margin of hind wing,
front size of areolet...
- 25–35 m (80–115 ft) tall,
rarely 45 m (150 ft).
Foliage blue-green,
strongly upcurved to
erect on all
except weak,
shaded shoots in the
lower crown;
leaves mostly...
- It is
distinguished from
Hypnale nepa by
variably colored body and less
upcurved snout. No
subspecies are
currently recognized.
Hypnale zara has 10–19 minute...
- are
arranged spirally on the shoot, but
twisted slightly S-shaped to be
upcurved above the shoot. The
cones are erect, 9–21 cm (3+1⁄2–8+1⁄4 in) long, yellow-green...
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arranged on the stem,
widely lance-shaped to oval and pointed, flat but
upcurved toward the tip,
reaching 2.5
centimeters long. They are
green when new...
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relative of Acastoides. The most con****uous
feature is the very long
upcurved frontal medial spine, a bit like an
avocet bill. It is the only
known species...
- and
females are
mainly rufous. The stubby,
hefty bill has a
distinctly upcurved lower mandible and a
straight culmen (a
large version of the
bills of the...
