intraskeletal
intraskeletal adjective: within the skeleton.
Adjective
intraskeletal (not comparable)
- Within the skeleton.
- To minimize the influence of intraskeletal cements on the observed signatures, the analysed specimens included unusual species either devoid of large intraskeletal open spaces ('button corals': Microcyclus, Palaeocyclus), or typified by particularly thick corallite walls (Calceola).2015 September 4, “Stable Isotope Signatures of Middle Palaeozoic Ahermatypic Rugose Corals – Deciphering Secondary Alteration, Vital Fractionation Effects, and Palaeoecological Implications”, in...
Origin of intraskeletal
From intra- + skeletal.
Questions about intraskeletal
- What does intraskeletal mean?
- Intraskeletal means within the skeleton.
- What part of speech is intraskeletal?
- Intraskeletal is an adjective.
Words near intraskeletal in the dictionary
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