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acentrous

acentrous adjective: lacking vertebral centra.

Adjective

acentrous (comparative more acentrous, superlative most acentrous)

  1. Lacking vertebral centra.
    • "Some bony fishes (Teleostei, Amia, Lepisosteus, and Brachiopterygii) have well-ossified centra and neural and hemal arches. Others (Dipnoi, Latimeria, and Chondrostei) lack centra (acentrous), and the notochord is unconstricted, and the bony neural and hemal arches simply rest on it."2001, "Axial Skeleton", David Cannatella, https://web.archive.org/web/20051222184337/http://www.lifesci.utexas.edu/courses/bio478L/LecturesPDF/bodyskeleton.pdf

Forms of acentrous

comparativemore acentrous
superlativemost acentrous

Origin of acentrous

From a- + centre + -ous.

Questions about acentrous

What does acentrous mean?
Acentrous means lacking vertebral centra.
What part of speech is acentrous?
Acentrous is an adjective.

Words near acentrous in the dictionary

  1. acentrics
  2. acentriolar
  3. acentromeric
  4. acentrosomal
  5. acentrosomally
  6. acentrous
  7. ACEO
  8. ACEP
  9. aceperone
  10. acephal
  11. acephalalgic

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