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epispire

epispire noun: a spiral ridge on the surface of the shell of some fossilized gastropods.

Noun

epispire (plural epispires)

  1. A spiral ridge on the surface of the shell of some fossilized gastropods.
    • Epispires, cothumopores, and lamellipores in cornutes are respiratory structures not atypical of early echinoderms and are only superficially similar to chordate gill slits.1997 October, R[onald] L. Parsley, “The echinoderm classes Stylophora and Homoiostelea: non Calcichordata”, in The Paleontological Society Papers, volume 3, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge...

Forms of epispire

pluralepispires

Questions about epispire

What does epispire mean?
Epispire means a spiral ridge on the surface of the shell of some fossilized gastropods.
What part of speech is epispire?
Epispire is a noun.
What is the plural of epispire?
The plural of epispire is epispires.

Words near epispire in the dictionary

  1. epispermic
  2. episperms
  3. episphere
  4. epispheres
  5. epispinal
  6. epispire
  7. epispires
  8. episporangia
  9. episporangium
  10. epispore
  11. epispores

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