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macrobasic

macrobasic adjective: having a shaft over four times as long as the capsule in relation to nematocysts.

Adjective

macrobasic (not comparable)

  1. Having a shaft over four times as long as the capsule in relation to nematocysts.

Origin of macrobasic

From macro- + basic.

Questions about macrobasic

What does macrobasic mean?
Macrobasic means having a shaft over four times as long as the capsule in relation to nematocysts.
What part of speech is macrobasic?
Macrobasic is an adjective.

Words near macrobasic in the dictionary

  1. macrobacterium
  2. macrobaenid
  3. macrobaenids
  4. macroband
  5. macrobands
  6. macrobasic
  7. macrobasin
  8. macrobasins
  9. macrobead
  10. macrobeads
  11. macrobehavior

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