camellate

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adjective

Having many small internal spaces, rather than fewer larger ones.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

adjectivecamellate (not comparable)
  1. not comparableHaving many small internal spaces, rather than fewer larger ones.

    For example, the long bones of birds and mammals are usually tubular at midshaft, but the epiphyses mostly consist of marrow-filled trabecular bone or pneumatic camellate bone.

    2005, Kristina Curry Rogers, The Sauropods: Evolution and Paleobiology, page 212
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