Pallial
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Pallial is an adjective meaning Of, pertaining to, or produced by a mantle, especially the mantle of mollusks.
Meaning
Of, pertaining to, or produced by a mantle, especially the mantle of mollusks.
More Meanings
- Of or relating to the pallium.
Example Sentences
The oldest points are close to the outcrop of the pallial myostracum (9 ).
the pallial line, or impression, which marks the attachment of the mantle on the inner surface of a bivalve shell
Along a line nearly corresponding with the horny band which proceeds from the insertions of the shell-muscles and encircles the mantle below, the pallial wall is produced inwards and forwards into a membranous fold or ligament, which I will call the pallio-visceral ligament; and this pallio-visceral ligament becoming attached to various viscera, divides the great fifth chamber into an anterior inferior, and a posterior superior portion, which communicate freely with one another.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include gonoduct, palleal, molluscan, mantellic, mesopallial, palladic.
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