 | William John Broderip - Animal behavior - 1847 - 434 pages
...longer be effective. In a tooth thus formed for cutting along its concave edge, each movement of the jaw combined the power of the knife and saw ; whilst the...two-edged point of a sabre. The backward curvature of the full-grown teeth, enabled them to retain, like barbs, the prey which they had penetrated. In these... | |
 | Richard Owen - Paleontology - 1853 - 452 pages
...longer be effective. In a tooth thus formed for cutting along its concave edge, each movement of the jaw combined the power of the knife and saw ; whilst the...two-edged point of a sabre. The backward curvature of the full-grown teeth enabled them to retain, like barbs, the prey which they had penetrated. In these adaptations... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1859 - 636 pages
...longer be effective. In a tooth thus formed for cutting along its concave edge, each movement of the jaw combined the power of the knife and saw ; whilst the...first incision, acted like the two-edged point of a saber. The backward curvature of the full-grown teeth enables them to retain, like barbs, the prey... | |
 | Richard Owen - Paleontology - 1861 - 490 pages
...longer be effective. In a tooth thus formed for cutting along its concave edge, each movement of the jaw combined the power of the knife and saw ; whilst the...two-edged point of a sabre. The backward curvature of the full-grown teeth enabled them to retain, like barbs, the prey which they had penetrated. In these adaptations... | |
 | Architecture - 1868 - 758 pages
...strength ; and the power of the tooth being further increased by the expansion of its sides. Thus .... each movement of the jaw with a tooth thus formed...two-edged point of a sabre. The backward curvature of the full-grown teeth enabled them to retain, like barbs, the prey whose quivering flesh they penetrated.... | |
 | Richard Owen - Anatomy, Comparative - 1866 - 704 pages
...of its side. ' In a tooth thus formed for cutting along its concave edge, each movement of the jaw combined the power of the knife and saw : whilst the...two-edged point of a sabre. The backward curvature of the full-grown teeth enabled them to retain, like barbs, the prey which they had penetrated. In these adaptations... | |
 | Richard Owen - 1866 - 700 pages
...of its side. ' In a tooth thus formed for cutting along its concave edge, each movement of the jaw combined the power of the knife and saw : whilst the...two-edged point of a sabre. The backward curvature of the full-grown teeth enabled them to retain, like barbs, the prey which they had penetrated. In these adaptations... | |
 | Richard Owen - Anatomy, Comparative - 1866 - 734 pages
...of it* side. ' In a tooth thus formed for cutting along its concave edge, each movement of the jaw combined the power of the knife and saw: whilst the...making the first incision, acted like the two-edged jx>int of a sabre. The backward curvature of the full-grown teeth enabled them to retain, like barbs,... | |
 | William Pengelly - 1868 - 396 pages
...strength ; and the power of the tooth being further increased by the expansion of its sides. Thus .... each movement of the jaw with a tooth thus formed...two-edged point of a sabre. The backward curvature of the full-grown teeth enabled them to retain, like barbs, the prey whose quivering flesh they penetrated.... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - Science - 1873 - 606 pages
...the base, the convex margin becoming thicker there, like the back of a knife, to give strength. Thus, each movement of the jaw, with a tooth thus formed,...two-edged point of a sabre. The backward curvature of the full-grown teeth enabled them to retain, like barbs, the prey whose quivering flesh they penetrated.... | |
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In a tooth thus formed for cutting along its concave edge, each movement of the jaw combined the power of the knife and saw ; whilst the apex, in making the first incision, acted like the two-edged point of a sabre. The backward curvature of the full-grown... 
