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hemipeneal

hemipeneal is the alternative form of hemipenial.

Meaning of hemipenial

Adjective

hemipenial (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to a hemipenis.
    • Clark was faced with the problem of determining which hemipenial type constituted the primitive condition.1985, Thomas Duncan, Cladistic theory and methodology, page 66

Origin of hemipeneal

From hemipen(is) + -eal. By surface analysis, hemi- + peneal.

Questions about hemipeneal

What is hemipeneal the alternative form of?
Hemipeneal is the alternative form of hemipenial.

Words near hemipeneal in the dictionary

  1. hemipelves
  2. hemipelvic
  3. hemipelvis
  4. hemipenal
  5. hemipene
  6. hemipeneal
  7. hemipenectomized
  8. hemipenectomy
  9. hemipenes
  10. hemipenial
  11. hemipenile

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hemipeneal (page history and authors); hemipenial (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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