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monocrurate

monocrurate adjective: having a single crus (leglike shank).

Adjective

monocrurate (not comparable)

  1. Having a single crus (leglike shank)
    • Additionally, these authors suggested that monocrurate stapes are thought to be of positive fitness for aquatic mammals whereas bicrurate stapes provide enhanced hearing abilities for terrestrial forms; however, it is important to note that the functional significance of these conditions has not...2015 July 16, “The Stapes of Gomphodont Cynodonts: Insights into the Middle Ear Structure of Non-Mammaliaform Cynodonts”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of monocrurate

From mono- + Latin crur- + -ate.

Questions about monocrurate

What does monocrurate mean?
Monocrurate means having a single crus (leglike shank).
What part of speech is monocrurate?
Monocrurate is an adjective.

Words near monocrurate in the dictionary

  1. monocrops
  2. monocrotaline
  3. monocrotic
  4. monocrotism
  5. monocrotophos
  6. monocrurate
  7. monocryptal
  8. monocrystal
  9. monocrystalline
  10. monocrystals
  11. monoctanoin

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