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duplicatures

duplicatures is the plural of duplicature.

Meaning of duplicature

Noun

duplicature (plural duplicatures)

  1. (archaic) A doubling; a fold, especially of a membrane.
    • The genus Saipanetta has been suggested to be a surviving relict of the metacopidan superfamily Healdiacea because of its muscle scar pattern and narrow duplicature; nevertheless, it differs from the Metacopida in its more complex hingement, lack of a distinct contact groove, exaggerated domiciliar...1978, Philip D. Gingerich, New Condylarthra (Mammalia) from the Paleocene and Early Eocene of North America, page 289

Questions about duplicatures

What is duplicatures the plural of?
Duplicatures is the plural of duplicature.

Words near duplicatures in the dictionary

  1. duplicatively
  2. duplicato-
  3. duplicator
  4. duplicators
  5. duplicature
  6. duplicatures
  7. duplices
  8. duplicial
  9. duplicidentate
  10. duplicit
  11. duplicitas anterior

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