Multicanaliculate
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Multicanaliculate is an adjective meaning (zoology, of an egg from pseudo-avian dinosaurs) Having numerous, large, branching, and closely spaced pore canals. They have a high gas exchange rate, so like tubocanaliculate eggs they were probably also buried humid mounds.
Meaning
(zoology, of an egg from pseudo-avian dinosaurs) Having numerous, large, branching, and closely spaced pore canals. They have a high gas exchange rate, so like tubocanaliculate eggs they were probably also buried humid mounds.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include obliquicanaliculate, canaliculated, subcanaliculate, canaled, bicanalicular, monocanalicular.
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