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polygyrate

polygyrate adjective: multiply gyrate, like the protoconches of various Gemmula ammonites. ?

Adjective

polygyrate

  1. Multiply gyrate, like the protoconches of various Gemmula ammonites. ?
    • [...] polygyrate diagonally cancellated protoconch, but in that genus the adult whorls are pagodiform, strongly keeled[…] polygyrate to paucispiral and almost smooth, and the reversed L-sinus is sometimes rendered U-shaped to subtubular, when restricted above by a parietal tubercle. The Daphnellids...1953, Auckland Institute and Museum, Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum
    • [...] gyrate furcation, and often a tendency to become fasciculate or virgatotome; secondary ribs obsolescent in some [...] polygyrate ribs and intercalatory secondaries. Microconchs 100-112 mm. in diameter with following rib densities[…]1967, J. C. W. Cope, The Palaeontology and Stratigraphy of the Lower Part of the Upper Kimmeridge Clay of Dorset

Questions about polygyrate

What does polygyrate mean?
Polygyrate means multiply gyrate, like the protoconches of various Gemmula ammonites. ?
What part of speech is polygyrate?
Polygyrate is an adjective.

Words near polygyrate in the dictionary

  1. polygynoecial
  2. polygynous
  3. polygynously
  4. polygyns
  5. polygyny
  6. polygyrate
  7. polygyria
  8. polygyrid
  9. polygyrids
  10. polygyrous
  11. polyhaemia

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