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metachronal

metachronal adjective: describing the wavelike beating of a group of cilia.

Adjective

metachronal (not comparable)

  1. Describing the wavelike beating of a group of cilia.

Origin of metachronal

From meta- + chronal.

Questions about metachronal

What does metachronal mean?
Metachronal means describing the wavelike beating of a group of cilia.
What part of speech is metachronal?
Metachronal is an adjective.

Words near metachronal in the dictionary

  1. metachromatically
  2. metachromatism
  3. metachrome
  4. metachromic
  5. metachromism
  6. metachronal
  7. metachronally
  8. metachronic
  9. metachronism
  10. metachronisms
  11. metachronistic

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