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nucleoconches

nucleoconches is the plural of nucleoconch.

Meaning of nucleoconch

Noun

nucleoconch (plural nucleoconchs or nucleoconches)

  1. The embryonic shell of a foraminifera, especially the protoconch and deuteroconch of a megalospheric form.
    • This nucleoconch is less than half the size of that seen in the sections of D. crassa.1945, John West Wells, American Old and Middle Tertiary Larger Foraminifera and Corals, page 77

Questions about nucleoconches

What is nucleoconches the plural of?
Nucleoconches is the plural of nucleoconch.

Words near nucleoconches in the dictionary

  1. nucleocentrosomal
  2. nucleocide
  3. nucleocomplex
  4. nucleocomplexes
  5. nucleoconch
  6. nucleoconches
  7. nucleoconchs
  8. nucleocortical
  9. nucleocosmochronological
  10. nucleocosmochronology
  11. nucleocounter

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