What is "prolongations"

Usage examples of "prolongations".

In Drosera the chief seat is in the lower part of the tentacles, which, homologically, may be considered as prolongations of the leaf.

We here clearly see that the valve and collar are infolded prolongations of the walls of the bladder.

In Dionaea the whole lobe, with the exception of the marginal prolongations or spikes, curves inwards, though the chief seat of movement is near the midrib.

Many botanists maintain that these tentacles consist of prolongations of the leaf, because they include vascular tissue, but this can no longer be considered as a trustworthy distinction.

The inner surface of the lamina supports two-celled, elongated papillae, resembling those in the upper part of the neck, but differing slightly from them, according to Warming, in their footstalks being formed by prolongations of large epidermic cells.

The headlands were prolongations of the island proper, and came so closely together that only one ship at a time might pass between them.