blowhole Význam & definice

Příklady blowhole

• Basilosaurids possessed teeth and a skull remarkably similar in function and structure, both have nostrils (blowholes) located halfway back on the snout, just in front of the eyes.

• All the structures used untrussed cast iron girders, and generally failed from blowholes or other casting defects within the bulk material, and so completely hidden from external view.

• There are also stacks, arches and blowholes.

• Pygmy blue whales also tend to be darker than the other subspecies of blue whales, and the shape of their blowhole is different.

• At certain times of the year and in bad weather the caverns become filled with water and the entrance acts like a giant blowhole.

• There are coral steps which lead down through an opening in the roof (former blowhole) into the cave, these steps were built in 1912.

• The mouthline of this species is straight, and the melon forms a small bulge with a crescent-shaped blowhole with forward-pointing tips.

• A subtly shaded, crescent-shaped black band crosses the head just behind the blowhole.