interspace

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Ah! the flowers cleave apart And their sweet fills the tender interspace; Ah! the leaves grown thereof were things to kiss Ere their fine gold was tarnished at the heart.

From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

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

His spirit of research once more encouraged, he moved towards it, and drawing it very gently, admitted his eye in the interspace.

From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

The width of the interspace between the foramina is one-half the width of the vertebræ, though this character varies with different genera and species.

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

In all of these characters the southern sample shows trends towards the southern subspecies, deppei, which has fewer ventrals, fewer scales in the first interspace, and more dorsal body-blotches.

From A Taxonomic Study of the Middle American Snake, Pituophis deppei by Duellman, William E.