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frontosquamosal

frontosquamosal adjective: at the front of the squamosal.

Adjective

frontosquamosal (not comparable)

  1. At the front of the squamosal
    • In that specimen, however, “there is no trace of frontosquamosal arches although the specimen is well-preserved in dorsal view” ([4 ]: 69) and although the shapes of the skull and the ribs clearly indicate a morphologically adult, even peramorphic individual ([21 ]: plate VIII fig 2; reproduced in...2015 October 1, “An Extremely Peramorphic Newt (Urodela: Salamandridae: Pleurodelini) from the Latest Oligocene of Germany, and a New Phylogenetic Analysis of Extant and Extinct Salamandrids”, in...

Origin of frontosquamosal

From fronto- + squamosal.

Questions about frontosquamosal

What does frontosquamosal mean?
Frontosquamosal means at the front of the squamosal.
What part of speech is frontosquamosal?
Frontosquamosal is an adjective.

Words near frontosquamosal in the dictionary

  1. frontopontocerebellar
  2. frontoposterior
  3. frontopostorbital
  4. frontosagittal
  5. frontosphenoid
  6. frontosquamosal
  7. frontostriatal
  8. frontosubcortical
  9. frontotemporal
  10. frontotemporally
  11. frontotemporoorbitozygomatic

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