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eulepidine

eulepidine adjective: having an embryonic apparatus in which the protoconch is completely enveloped by the deuteroconch, both chambers adhering only at one point of contact.

Adjective

eulepidine

  1. Having an embryonic apparatus in which the protoconch is completely enveloped by the deuteroconch, both chambers adhering only at one point of contact.
    • If it should appear, as Yabe believes (1929), that L. ephippioides is also of the eulepidine type, then there is no specific difference between the two last mentioned species […]1937, Joseph Augustine Cushman, Raymond Cecil Moore, John Bernard Reeside, Journal of Paleontology, volume 11, page 104
    • The embryonic chambers are eulepidine.1953, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, page 36

Origin of eulepidine

From eu- + lepidine.

Questions about eulepidine

What does eulepidine mean?
Eulepidine means having an embryonic apparatus in which the protoconch is completely enveloped by the deuteroconch, both chambers adhering only at one point of contact.
What part of speech is eulepidine?
Eulepidine is an adjective.

Words near eulepidine in the dictionary

  1. eulamellibranchiate
  2. eulamellibranchs
  3. eulaminate
  4. eularian
  5. EULAs
  6. eulepidine
  7. eulepidopteran
  8. eulepidopterans
  9. Euler
  10. Euler angle
  11. Euler angles

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