blowhole betydelse and definition

Exempel på blowhole

• But tell me, isn't that the noise cetaceans make when they spurt water from their blowholes? 

• While I was observing this phenomenal creature, two jets of steam and water sprang from its blowholes and rose to an altitude of forty meters, which settled for me its mode of breathing. 

• 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.