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obliquicanaliculate

obliquicanaliculate adjective: having pore canals cut diagonally through multiple eggshell units instead of going between them like in other pore systems. Obliquicanaliculate pores are only found in a single oogenus: Preprismatoolithus.

Adjective

obliquicanaliculate (not comparable)

  1. Having pore canals cut diagonally through multiple eggshell units instead of going between them like in other pore systems. Obliquicanaliculate pores are only found in a single oogenus: Preprismatoolithus.

Origin of obliquicanaliculate

From oblique and canaliculate.

Questions about obliquicanaliculate

What does obliquicanaliculate mean?
Obliquicanaliculate means having pore canals cut diagonally through multiple eggshell units instead of going between them like in other pore systems. Obliquicanaliculate pores are only found in a single oogenus: Preprismatoolithus.
What part of speech is obliquicanaliculate?
Obliquicanaliculate is an adjective.

Words near obliquicanaliculate in the dictionary

  1. obliquenesses
  2. obliquer
  3. obliques
  4. obliquest
  5. obliqui
  6. obliquicanaliculate
  7. obliquid
  8. obliquing
  9. obliquities
  10. obliquitous
  11. obliquity

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