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tarphyconic

tarphyconic adjective: tarphyceraconic (sometimes specifically if immature).

Adjective

tarphyconic

  1. Tarphyceraconic (sometimes specifically if immature).
    • […] tarphyconic, and finally nautiliconic. To differentiate between mature and immature orthoconic, cyrtoconic, gyroconic, and tarphyconic forms , an additional set of terms is needed for the mature forms; these are orthoceraconic[…]1933, Arthur K. Miller, The Nautiloid Cephalopods of the Pennsylvanian System in the Mid-continent Region
    • […] is a tarphyconic species, the whorls in contact but with no true impressed zone.1952, Hans Ernst Thalmann, Journal of Paleontology

Questions about tarphyconic

What does tarphyconic mean?
Tarphyconic means tarphyceraconic (sometimes specifically if immature).
What part of speech is tarphyconic?
Tarphyconic is an adjective.

Words near tarphyconic in the dictionary

  1. tarphycerid
  2. tarphycerids
  3. tarphyceroid
  4. tarphycone
  5. tarphycones
  6. tarphyconic
  7. tarping
  8. tarpit
  9. tarpits
  10. tarpitted
  11. tarpitting

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