15 adjectives to describe prolongations

The spores falling on some part of the same potato plant, or carried by the wind to another, may at once germinate, throwing out tubular prolongations which become hyphoe, and burrow into the substance of the plant attacked.

An anxiety to preserve life, however, induced the suggestion, on their parts, of a plan for the temporary prolongation of it, at least.

Any unexpected prolongation of a cruise threatened a reduction to short commons.

No doubt we must all die some time, and the day is yet far remote when the only causes of death will be old age and injury; but a decided prolongation of the average lifetime, such as the life-insurance companies recognize, is an unquestionable gain to the human race.

These cells sometimes have on the free surface delicate prolongations called cilia.

Perhaps if some fundamental truths were brought home to the people, or, to be more exact, to the peoples now at loggerheads with each other, a notion of the peril equally impending upon all concerned and the conviction that an indefinite prolongation of the present state of things is impossible, would prove decisive factors in restoring a spirit of peace and in reviving that spirit of solidarity which now appears spent or slumbering.

Asplenium pinnatífídum Fronds four to six inches long, lanceolate, pinnátifid or pinnate near the base, tapering above into a slender prolongation.

He missed entirely the deep indentation of Baumann Gulf and the southwestern prolongation of the lake, surveyed by Father Schynse, in 1891.

But this steady increase of intelligence, as our forefathers began to become human, carried with it a steady prolongation of infancy.

It was fine; the lines straight and parallel; the letters completely formed, though without fulness of curve; no flourishes, and no unnecessary prolongations of stroke, above or below the general run of the line.

The hoarseness of the cry, its unrelenting prolongation, it being caught up at different points and sent to the lowest depths of the ship, produced a most dismal effect upon every heart not calloused by long familiarity with it.

The timber has been removed along this line to a width necessary for its accurate prolongation and for the requisite astronomical observations at various points upon it, and a correct profile, or vertical section, has also been obtained by means of the spirit level the whole of the distance above mentioned.

At this point each terminates in several large villous prolongations, which extend into the horny tubes at the circumference of the sole.

It presents, therefore, at its centre a single conical prolongation, the Pyramidal Body, which is continued behind, as is the horny frog, in the shape of two lateral ridges divided by a median cleft.

In view of the possible departure of the Ninth, and the consequent prolongation of the European war, gold rose several degrees above freezing point.

15 adjectives to describe  prolongations