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camellate

camellate adjective: having many small internal spaces, rather than fewer larger ones.

Adjective

camellate (not comparable)

  1. Having many small internal spaces, rather than fewer larger ones.
    • For example, the long bones of birds and mammals are usually tubular at midshaft, but the epiphyses mostly consist of marrow-filled trabecular bone or pneumatic camellate bone.2005, Kristina Curry Rogers, The Sauropods: Evolution and Paleobiology, page 212

Words formed from camellate

  • camellation
  • procamellate

Questions about camellate

What does camellate mean?
Camellate means having many small internal spaces, rather than fewer larger ones.
What part of speech is camellate?
Camellate is an adjective.

Words near camellate in the dictionary

  1. camelish
  2. camelize
  3. camelized
  4. camelizes
  5. camelizing
  6. camellate
  7. camellated
  8. camellia
  9. Camellia City
  10. camelliaceous
  11. camellias

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