EYE STALK collocation | meaning and examples of use (original) (raw)
collocation in English
meanings of eye and stalk
eye
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one of the two organs in your face that are used ...
stalk
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/stɔːk/us
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the main stem of a plant, or the narrow stem that joins leaves, flowers, or fruit to the main stem of ...
Examples of eye stalk
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A white line or spot is also visible on the eye stalk.
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Its eye stalk has been replaced with a conventional torch, which flashes when it speaks.
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This behavior is not communicative so much as the dog exhibiting a fixed-action pattern called the eye stalk.
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The bird rips off the eye stalk and eats it and later on the parasite's egg is dropped with the bird's feces.
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The snail regenerates a replacement eye stalk, which also becomes infected by the parasite.
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The shell margin has an indentation near the anterior end which accommodates one of the eye stalks.
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This notch is where one of the two eye stalks protrudes from the shell.
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Examples of such tentacles are the eye stalks of various kinds of snails.
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They see from a trio of short eye stalks that also protrude from their body.
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A sporocyst-sac pulsates in the snail's eye stalks, coming to resemble an irresistible meal for a songbird.
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All beholder ships allow a circuit of beholders to focus their eye stalks into a 400 yard beam of magical energy.
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It features a split-screen view of a crab's view of the underwater world in which his independently moving eyes (on eye stalks) see the world completely differently from each other.
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The creature's mouth and tongue, tentacles, and eye stalks are all pseudopods, covered by retractable bony plates that can be made to resemble doors and shutters.
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