Hellbenders is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Hellbenders meaning
plural of hellbender
Using Hellbenders
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of hellbender
- In the example corpus, hellbenders often appears in combinations such as: hellbenders are.
Context around Hellbenders
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 3 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hellbenders
- In this selection, "hellbenders" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, hellbender, love, metamorphosis, must, reach and breeding stand out and add context to how "hellbenders" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include could love hellbenders are often and from other hellbenders both in. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hellbenders" sits close to words such as aami, aat and abada, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hellbenders
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Those cold streams the hellbenders like could get too warm. (10 words)
Hellbenders are preyed upon by diverse predators, including various fish and reptiles (including both snakes and turtles). (17 words)
Hellbenders reach sexual maturity at about five years of age, and may live 30 years in captivity. (17 words)
Life history and behavior Behavior Once a hellbender finds a favorable location, it generally does not stray too far from it—except occasionally for breeding and hunting—and will protect it from other hellbenders both in and out of the breeding season. (42 words)
As a result of this specialization, hellbenders are generally found in areas with large, irregularly shaped, and intermittent rocks and swiftly moving water, while they tend to avoid wider, slow-moving waters with muddy banks and/or slab rock bottoms. (40 words)
The same collector noted, he "never found two specimens under the same rock", corroborating the account given by other researchers that hellbenders are generally solitary; they are thought to gather only during the mating season. (35 words)
Example sentences (12)
It’s home to our hellbender; hellbenders are the biggest salamander species on the continent, and children love to look under the tank to see it.
Because of their size – averaging 16 to 17 inches in length – and appearance that only a mother could love, hellbenders are often mistaken as harmful, poisonous, venomous or toxic.
Representative Garth Everett, R-Lycoming, who helped shepherd the bill through the House, said hellbenders had been on decline.
Those cold streams the hellbenders like could get too warm.
After this metamorphosis, hellbenders must be able to absorb oxygen through the folds in their skin, which is largely behind the need for fast-moving, oxygenated water.
As a result of this specialization, hellbenders are generally found in areas with large, irregularly shaped, and intermittent rocks and swiftly moving water, while they tend to avoid wider, slow-moving waters with muddy banks and/or slab rock bottoms.
Hatchling hellbenders are 25–33 mm long, have a yolk sac as a source of energy for the first few months of life, and lack functional limbs.
Hellbenders are preyed upon by diverse predators, including various fish and reptiles (including both snakes and turtles).
Hellbenders reach sexual maturity at about five years of age, and may live 30 years in captivity.
Life history and behavior Behavior Once a hellbender finds a favorable location, it generally does not stray too far from it—except occasionally for breeding and hunting—and will protect it from other hellbenders both in and out of the breeding season.
Reproduction The hellbenders' breeding season begins in late August or early- to mid-September and can continue as late as the end of November, depending on region.
The same collector noted, he "never found two specimens under the same rock", corroborating the account given by other researchers that hellbenders are generally solitary; they are thought to gather only during the mating season.
Common combinations with hellbenders
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: