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pleurembolic

pleurembolic adjective: capable of being withdrawn by a backward movement of the parts from which it protrudes so that it becomes engulfed.

Adjective

pleurembolic (not comparable)

  1. Capable of being withdrawn by a backward movement of the parts from which it protrudes so that it becomes engulfed.
    • Some scattered melanophores in fundus of atrium, a few pigment cells along seminal groove. Male atrium (a) narrow in front, wide behind. Its fundus forms a deep fold which receives seminal groove and functions as pleurembolic penis (p).1970, Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and Other Caribbean Islands
    • The proboscis wall itself is highly muscular and has longitudinal, circular and diagonal muscle layers. It is of the pleurembolic type characteristic of the Buccinacea.2003, Harold Barnes, Oceanography and Marine Biology, →ISBN, page 373

Origin of pleurembolic

From Ancient Greek πλευρά (pleurá, “a rib, a side of something”) + Ancient Greek ἔμβολος (émbolos, “peg, stopper”).

Questions about pleurembolic

What does pleurembolic mean?
Pleurembolic means capable of being withdrawn by a backward movement of the parts from which it protrudes so that it becomes engulfed.
What part of speech is pleurembolic?
Pleurembolic is an adjective.

Words near pleurembolic in the dictionary

  1. pleuras
  2. pleuraspidotheriid
  3. pleuraspidotheriids
  4. pleurectomies
  5. pleurectomy
  6. pleurembolic
  7. pleurenchyma
  8. pleuretic
  9. pleuric
  10. pleuripotent
  11. pleurisie

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