bite off's Usage Examples:

fin-eaters attack other fish, even ones that are much larger, where they bite off pierces of fins with their sharp teeth.

Cockatoos bite off branchlets with clusters of seed capsules, then hold them with their feet while chewing and harvesting seeds before littering the ground with debris.

parrot fishes which bite off pieces of coral, digest the living tissue, and excrete the inorganic component as silt and sand.

storm ‘in imitation of the beaver that in its desire to escape death, will bite off its testicles and render itself a eunuch’.

tendency to swell in the stomach; that is much less of a problem in dogs that bite off smaller pieces and do not try to swallow the rawhide whole.

Your Own Sled (Russian: Не в свои сани не садись, an idiom meaning "Don"t bite off more than you can chew,") is a play by Alexander Ostrovsky, written in.

"Giant Skillywiggler", with "teeth like screwdrivers" with which it would bite off her toes.

Its head had a short drooping snout with a horny beak to bite off plants that were digested in the large gut.

It would have used its sharp ceratopsian beak to bite off the leaves or needles.

One example of this process is that of parrot fishes which bite off pieces of coral, digest the living tissue, and excrete the inorganic component.

Later in 1970, Anderson was to bite off more than he could chew when he decided to fight a young prospect at the Cleveland Arena in Cleveland, Ohio named Ted Gullick, after providing Gullick with a boxing lesson in rounds 1 through 4, toward the end of the fourth Gullick scored a knockdown with a sharp left hook.

To keep from losing any water from its victims, it will bite off the legs and then crush the prey"s head so as not to kill it but to keep.

became longer and their small heads became narrow, able to selectively bite off the best parts of cycads with their beaks.

Synonyms:

seize with teeth, snap at, bite,

Antonyms:

addition, failure,