ribbonlike


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Adj. 1. ribbonlike - long and thin; resembling a ribbon; "ribbonlike noodles"
thin - of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section; "thin wire"; "a thin chiffon blouse"; "a thin book"; "a thin layer of paint"
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At the Horse prospects area orebodies are found to be relatively narrow ribbonlike structures with high-grade shoot development.
(9) Notably, FLCs can show variable patterns of fibrosis, including (1) ribbonlike, which separates tumor cells into trabeculae (most commonly observed); (2) haphazard collagen deposition; and (3) tumors showing areas with little or no intratumoral fibrosis (least commonly observed).
Kaufman praised the way Fischer used her "ribbonlike form to suggest fragility and purity."
Covering 100 nautical miles per day, it creates vivid ribbonlike photomosaics showing where, what, and how much life lies on the seafloor.
Rotate stand toward you while lifting spatula up to rim, creating a ribbonlike effect.
On many skulls the decoration on the skullcap is framed by a ribbonlike and often jagged motif, which is provisionally defined as "jagged boundary strip" It usually starts near the outer edges of the "eyebrows" and runs from here along the temple region to the occiput (Fig.
For Melissa's Holiday 2014 collection, TaiwaneseCanadian couturier Jason Wu, designer for US First Lady Michelle Obama, introduces classic handcrafted shoes with goddesslike straps, golden weaves and sleek ribbonlike textures.
Awh and Vogel, who've both been in the UO psychology department roughly a decade and a half, figured out how to use EEGs to map the rhythmic firing of neurons in the brain - which led to the Journal of Neuroscience featuring their brightly colored, ribbonlike representations of human brain activity over time.
The meteoroid bits that crumble off a comet's nucleus spread along the orbit ahead of and behind the comet, and in time they widen into a thin, ribbonlike sheet mostly confined to the comet's orbital plane.
The term "ribbonlike sensilla" in this paper has been adopted from that used by Brozek [24].