What is "underbody"

Usage examples of "underbody".

No one has ever seen a trilobite, since they exist only in the fossil record, but the sections of its bony thorax recorded in stone were so perfectly made that, when threatened, these creatures were able to curl up, each segment nesting into the next and protecting the soft animal underbodies.

Nearer the tug advanced, so near that the tugmen could see the streaks through the red underbody.

Then I pulled out the head and continued on by means of the frog kick and underbody sculling with my right hand.

Dressing as swiftly as she could and grabbing her jewels and what money she had, she went through the connecting door in the garage and hid in the sump pit which Mr Simplon, who liked tinkering with the underbodies of cars as well as Mrs Grabble's, had thoughtfully constructed.

The quogs on deck gathered to help him, bracing their leathery underbodies against the pole.

They also had magnets both in the tires and on their underbodies, and these did the trick.

Dressing as swiftly as she could and grabbing her jewels and what money she had, she went through the con­necting door in the garage and hid in the sump pit which Mr Simplon, who liked tinkering with the underbodies of cars as well as Mrs Grabble's, had thoughtfully constructed.

But as the cloud car dove underneath the outer edge of velsers, Jacen saw that their underbodies consisted of rows and rows of jagged mouths, lampreylike teeth with suckers to anchor themselves, and grinding jaws that could rip any prey to shreds.