What does carcinisation mean?
Carcinisation means Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of carcinization.
Carcinisation
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Carcinisation is a noun meaning Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of carcinization.
Meaning
Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of carcinization.
Example Sentences
It seems certain that carcinisation, return to a crab-like habitus, has evolved several times in the Anomura.
Porcelain crabs (Galatheoidea: Porcellanidae) and the hairy stone crab (Lomisoidea: Lomisidae) are also highly carcinised. They represent two additional independent instances of carcinisation within the Anomura, although their derivation has received much less attention than that of the king crabs.
Porcellanids are, after brachyuran crabs, the most successful decapod group to achieve a crab-like body form through carcinisation. Unlike brachyurans, porcellanids retained the ability to swim by flapping their abdomen, armed with a well developed tail fan. Here, we present an exceptional case of carcinisation, with the South-American porcellanid, Allopetrolisthes spinifrons, an obligatory commensal of the sea-anemone species Phymactis papillosa and Phymanthea pluvia.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include gallicisation, computerisation, morphologisation, fascistisation, canceration, francisation.
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It seems certain that carcinisation, return to a crab-like habitus, has evolved several times in the Anomura.
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