What is "undersides"

Usage examples of "undersides".

If you shake it, these tiny, mothlike creatures fly up from the undersides of the leaves in great numbers.

Some feed on plant stems and the undersides of leaves with their piercing-sucking mouthparts, causing stippling or yellowing of the leaves, which then drop off.

And as he found his bearings, as he twisted and saw the mobile ships in Basilio docks and the sprinkled crumblike boats of Winterstraw Market, he looked up and saw in the cold lancing shadow of the boat above him one of the huge, vague shapes that dangled from the city’s undersides, that was obscured by charms and carefully guarded, that he was forbidden to see.

Above them, the sky was deepening, color impastoed onto the undersides of clouds as the sun swung lower in the sky.

Because at the edges of all that banal activity, framing the mass of keels and undersides like the points of a pentacle, the five great chains angled in a steep slope down and forward into the pitch, tethering the avanc miles below.

Green, grey, cold white, and amber globes of cray design, tracing the undersides of the city.

Cleaved parasitic to the undersides of our attackers and then fluttered free in the squalor of battle and you have plucked bodies from the dead and dying plenty.

They eat the soft tissue on the undersides of leaves, leaving a skeleton of veins over a rounded area.

On the other hand, the villainy going on on the undersides of my boxes needed more understanding before, or if ever, I told Sandy about it.

We would need, I said, another slider for inspecting the undersides of the boxes and Harve, nodding, suggested I ask Nigel to make one.

Hung by the ankles, the legs wide, the slim body swung slowly as the booted female used a braided flogger on the crotch and buttock crease, the pale undersides of the breasts awaiting their turn.

A gray-green color, somewhat like the undersides of the leaves, but darker, and often covered by yet another green, the yellow green of lichen, yellow green or battleship gray.

Nirgal just sat with him, looking at the undersides of the linden trees around the bench.

The dragon spiraled down, wings spread wide to show their golden undersides and head extended to peer at Sioned.

As the great wings unfurled threateningly, showing the velvety black undersides, badly healed tears were visible as well as crooked wingbones that had not remeshed properly after breaking.