interspace

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But the Porpoise has those premaxillary bones not so much in advance of the bones which carry teeth named maxillary, as placed in the interspace between them.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Seeley, H. G.

In Loops, the interspace is filled with a system of ridges that bends back upon itself, and in which no one ridge turns through a complete circle.

From Finger Prints by Galton, Francis, Sir

In such a Dinosaur as the American carnivorous Ceratosaurus the two bars of the pubis and ischium remain separate and diverging, and there is no film of bone extending over the interspace between them.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Seeley, H. G.

For indeed that short interspace of time shines out in my remembrance like a thick thread of gold in a woof of homespun.

From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

These scales are generally small, and placed symmetrically in close whorls, in an imbricated order, with each scale corresponding to the interspace between two scales in the whorls above and below.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles