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ascrotal

ascrotal adjective: existing without a scrotum.

Adjective

ascrotal (not comparable)

  1. Existing without a scrotum.
    • The primary locomotory muscles of terrestrial mammals are appendicular, so much of the locomotory heat energy of the muscle is transferred to the environment rather than directed into the body cavities; this is not the case for ascrotal marine mammals, whose primary locomotory muscles surround the...2001, Frances M. D. Gulland, CRC Handbook of Marine Mammal Medicine

Origin of ascrotal

From a- + scrotal.

Questions about ascrotal

What does ascrotal mean?
Ascrotal means existing without a scrotum.
What part of speech is ascrotal?
Ascrotal is an adjective.

Words near ascrotal in the dictionary

  1. ascriptions
  2. ascriptitious
  3. ascriptive
  4. ascriptively
  5. ascriptives
  6. ascrotal
  7. ASCs
  8. Ascupart
  9. ascurry
  10. ascus
  11. Ascutney

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