Eulepidine
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Eulepidine is an adjective meaning (zoology) Having an embryonic apparatus in which the protoconch is completely enveloped by the deuteroconch, both chambers adhering only at one point of contact.
Meaning
(zoology) Having an embryonic apparatus in which the protoconch is completely enveloped by the deuteroconch, both chambers adhering only at one point of contact.
Example Sentences
The embryonic chambers are eulepidine.
The trybliolepidine type has developed independently from the eulepidine.
If it should appear, as Yabe believes (1929), that L. ephippioides is also of the eulepidine type, then there is no specific difference between the two last mentioned species […]
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