Certain Emydes…tend to the Sea-tortoises or Turtles…and yet exhibit characters peculiar to themselves.

The hyaloid system and its associated vascular tunicas are responsible for providing vascular and metabolic support to the lens during embryological development.

One could also speak of a northering of imagination, an attenuation, chilling, emptying out. But that sense of diminishment in going north may be mistaken, ...

The inside walls are sheathed in an amber-colored veneer about the thickness of two sheets of paper, cut from a single log of an African moabi tree.