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ectocochlear

ectocochlear adjective: having the shell external to the body.

Adjective

ectocochlear (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Having the shell external to the body.
    • These may be very elongate (longicone) or short and rather swollen (brevicone). It has been generally assumed that all fossil cephalopods with straight or curved shells were ectocochlear, i.e. that the shell was wholly external to the body.2013 July 23, E. N. K. Clarkson, Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN
    • Such markings would be apparent only if they were external; this is regarded as good evidence that in such taxa the conch was ectocochlear. Additional evidence is given by cells encrusted with oriented patterns of epizoans that attached[…]2019 June 4, Ronald Singer, Encyclopedia of Paleontology, Routledge, →ISBN

Questions about ectocochlear

What does ectocochlear mean?
Ectocochlear means having the shell external to the body.
What part of speech is ectocochlear?
Ectocochlear is an adjective.

Words near ectocochlear in the dictionary

  1. ectocervixes
  2. ectochoroidea
  3. ectocingulid
  4. ectocingulids
  5. ectocingulum
  6. ectocochlear
  7. ectocochleate
  8. ectocochliate
  9. ectocolpi
  10. ectocolpus
  11. ectocommensal

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