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obliquicanaliculate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
obliquicanalic-u-late
IPA
34
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having pore canals cut diagonally through multiple eggshell units instead of going between them like in other pore systems. Obliquicanaliculate pores are only found in a single oogenus: Preprismatoolithus.

Etymology

From oblique and canaliculate.

Frequently Paired Words

multicanaliculate angusticanaliculate prolatocanaliculate rimocanaliculate tubocanaliculate

Questions

What does obliquicanaliculate mean?
Having pore canals cut diagonally through multiple eggshell units instead of going between them like in other pore systems. Obliquicanaliculate pores are only found in a single oogenus: Preprismatoolithus.
Where does obliquicanaliculate come from?
From oblique and canaliculate.

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