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basioccipital

basioccipital adjective: relating to the basiocciput.

Adjective

basioccipital (not comparable)

  1. Relating to the basiocciput

Noun

basioccipital (plural basioccipitals)

  1. Synonym of basiocciput.
    • Primitively the exoccipitals took but little part in the formation of the occipital condyle, but in many later reptiles they form a large part, as in the Chelonia (Fig. 31 b), or even the whole, as in the Amphisbaenia (Fig. 56 b); or, by the recession of the basioccipital, the double condyles of...1925, Samuel Wendell Williston, “Chapter 1”, in The Osteology of the Reptiles
    Synonyms:
    basiocciput

Synonyms of basioccipital

Forms of basioccipital

pluralbasioccipitals

Origin of basioccipital

From basi- + occipital.

Words formed from basioccipital

Questions about basioccipital

What does basioccipital mean?
Basioccipital means relating to the basiocciput.
What part of speech is basioccipital?
Basioccipital can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near basioccipital in the dictionary

  1. basinsful
  2. basinward
  3. basinwards
  4. basinwide
  5. basioapical
  6. basioccipital
  7. basioccipitals
  8. basiocciput
  9. basiocciputs
  10. basioglossal
  11. basiolabial

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