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nucleoconchs

nucleoconchs 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 nucleoconchs

What is nucleoconchs the plural of?
Nucleoconchs is the plural of nucleoconch.

Words near nucleoconchs in the dictionary

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

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