canals
canals is the plural of canal.
canals is the third-person singular simple present indicative of canal.
Meaning of canal
Noun
canal (plural canals)
- An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
- A tubular channel within the body or within a plant.
- The fossilised jaw of T. trusleri has a huge canal running through it and that’s believed to have carried all the nerve and related tissue needed for the sense of electroception.2022 March 29, Karen McGee, “Stunning breakthrough: the platypus and echidnas came from the South Pole”, in Australian Geographic
- One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars; see Martian canals
Proper noun capitalized: Canals
Canals
- plural of Canal
Phrases with canals
- ear canals
- alar canals
- food canals
- love canals
- root canals
- sand canals
- ship canals
- birth canals
- cloud canals
- stone canals
- carpal canals
- neural canals
26 more phrasesFewer phrases
- radial canals
- spinal canals
- canals of Nuck
- central canals
- femoral canals
- hyaloid canals
- auditory canals
- cervical canals
- incisive canals
- inguinal canals
- lacrimal canals
- canals of Hering
- Gartner's canals
- Haversian canals
- pterygoid canals
- Schlemm's canals
- triosseal canals
- vertebral canals
- alimentary canals
- canals of Schlemm
- mandibular canals
- hypoglossal canals
- neurenteric canals
- semicircular canals
- external auditory canals
- internal auditory canals
Questions about canals
- What is canals the plural of?
- Canals is the plural of canal.
- What part of speech is canals?
- Canals is a proper noun.
Words near canals in the dictionary
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