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pallial

pallial adjective: of, pertaining to, or produced by a mantle, especially the mantle of mollusks.

Adjective

pallial (not comparable)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or produced by a mantle, especially the mantle of mollusks.
    • the pallial line, or impression, which marks the attachment of the mantle on the inner surface of a bivalve shell
    • The oldest points are close to the outcrop of the pallial myostracum (9 ).1998 May 8, Stanley R. Hart, Jerzy Blusztajn, “Clams As Recorders of Ocean Ridge Volcanism and Hydrothermal Vent Field Activity”, in Science, volume 280, number 5365, →DOI, pages 883–886
  2. Of or relating to the pallium.

Origin of pallial

Latin pallium (“a mantle”).

Words formed from pallial

Questions about pallial

What does pallial mean?
Pallial means of, pertaining to, or produced by a mantle, especially the mantle of mollusks.
What part of speech is pallial?
Pallial is an adjective.

Words near pallial in the dictionary

  1. pallette
  2. pallettes
  3. pallholder
  4. pallholders
  5. pallia
  6. pallial
  7. palliament
  8. palliaments
  9. palliard
  10. palliardise
  11. palliardize

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