Tabularium
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Tabularium is a noun meaning (zoology) A central calicle of a coral or hydroid.
Meaning
(zoology) A central calicle of a coral or hydroid.
Example Sentences
The unusually long minor septa and the restricted tabularia are features that I have not seen in any other species of Prismatophyllum.
If further investigation shows that clinotabulae are absent from the Geyerophyllidae and biform tabularia are developed, then the Geyerophyllidae should be placed in synonymy with the Petalaxidae.
Tabulae are transverse plates which may be flat, convex or concave. They usually occupy a central space or tabularium, and if there is an axial complex they join with it. […] Dissepiments, the small plates usually found towards the edge of the corallum, lie peripheral to the tabularium and like the tabulae are constructed of fibro-normal tissue.
Word Forms
- tabularia
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include schizocoral, tubularian, calymenid, tubicole, tetracoral, tabulate.
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