Word.ws English Dictionary

abporal

abporal adjective: located to the side of an ectoaperture such as a pore. Typically used in reference to an abporal lacuna or hemisphere.

Adjective

abporal (comparative more abporal, superlative most abporal)

  1. Located to the side of an ectoaperture such as a pore. Typically used in reference to an abporal lacuna or hemisphere.

Forms of abporal

comparativemore abporal
superlativemost abporal

Origin of abporal

From ab- + poral. Coined by Canadian botanist Roger Philip Wodehouse in 1928.

Questions about abporal

What does abporal mean?
Abporal means located to the side of an ectoaperture such as a pore. Typically used in reference to an abporal lacuna or hemisphere.
What part of speech is abporal?
Abporal is an adjective.

Words near abporal in the dictionary

  1. ABPI
  2. Abplanalp
  3. Abplanalps
  4. ABPM
  5. ABPN
  6. abporal
  7. abps.
  8. ABQ
  9. Abq.
  10. Abqaiq
  11. ABQB

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: abporal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “abporal.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/abporal. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.