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tubocanaliculate

tubocanaliculate adjective: having large-diameter pores with funnel-shaped openings on both inner and outer surfaces of the shell. These eggs would have a high gas exchange rate, and therefore were probably buried in humid mounds.

Adjective

tubocanaliculate (not comparable)

  1. Having large-diameter pores with funnel-shaped openings on both inner and outer surfaces of the shell. These eggs would have a high gas exchange rate, and therefore were probably buried in humid mounds.

Origin of tubocanaliculate

From tube + -o- + canaliculate.

Questions about tubocanaliculate

What does tubocanaliculate mean?
Tubocanaliculate means having large-diameter pores with funnel-shaped openings on both inner and outer surfaces of the shell. These eggs would have a high gas exchange rate, and therefore were probably buried in humid mounds.
What part of speech is tubocanaliculate?
Tubocanaliculate is an adjective.

Words near tubocanaliculate in the dictionary

  1. Tubney
  2. Tubo
  3. tubo-
  4. tubo-ovarian
  5. Tubo-tubo
  6. tubocanaliculate
  7. tubocapsanolide
  8. tubocapsanolides
  9. tubocapsenolide
  10. tubocapside
  11. tubocurare

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