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retrochoanitic

retrochoanitic adjective: that points backward.

Adjective

retrochoanitic (not comparable)

  1. That points backward.
    • The latter is retrochoanitic during the earliest ontogenetic stages (Fig 4A 2 ) and becomes prochoanitic (Fig 6B ) at D≈1.8 mm, after approximately 18 septa and in the first half of the second whorl (in CPC-1214).2016 January 14, “Paleobiology of the Latest Tithonian (Late Jurassic) Ammonite Salinites grossicostatum Inferred from Internal and External Shell Parameters”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Questions about retrochoanitic

What does retrochoanitic mean?
Retrochoanitic means that points backward.
What part of speech is retrochoanitic?
Retrochoanitic is an adjective.

Words near retrochoanitic in the dictionary

  1. retrochalcone
  2. retrochalcones
  3. retrochiasmal
  4. retrochiasmatic
  5. retrochoanal
  6. retrochoanitic
  7. retrochoir
  8. retrochoirs
  9. retrochorionic
  10. retrochronal
  11. retroclination

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