What is "forebody"

Usage examples of "forebody".

Two heavily muscled arms attached to the forebody at the same point as the neck.

Its forebody whipped back and forth, and all four of its arms windmilled in panic.

Then he dropped down out of the tree he was in and lowered his forebody with his hands supporting his weight.

Enormous arms lifted its forebody off the ground as it rose and surveyed the Cymrian assemblage, all but a handful of whom had fallen back in utter panic at the sight of it.

The snake curled its forebody to the ground, lifting its head slightly.

It pulled its rear up in a great arch, vised its prolegs into the hard earth, took the weight of its forebody, and with a flail lifted it, straightening the tube of bodiness, the humanish torso high at the end of outstretched grub physiognomy that batted uncertainly at the air, then onto the spongy caterpillar forelegs.

It arched again, gripped and opened itself out, put its forebody down closer.

She looked a trifle surprised when the weight of her forebody made the board rock and gently tilt her forward, but it did not frighten her.

The creature jerked back, lifting its forebody while Cashel still clung to the staff deep in its skull.

Gurronsevas felt the sudden, invisible tug of the tractor beam, but it was off-center so that it pulled only on his forebody and sharply increased his rate of spin.

The tremor in his head and forebody was a little worse than Unnerby remembered.

The worlag scuttled forward, its forebody raised up, its pincers reaching out.

But some had a faraway look about them and a sadness that made Corvax turn away and hide his expressive forebody from them, in case they saw his sudden answering pain.

A head, long-nosed and sharp, was tucked against its forebody, and on it Zephyr saw the surface of an eye blinklessly open, its clear shields reflecting the light of the high sun.

The narrow head twisted and turned above the slender forebody, the thick brown hair covering it in constant movement.