eulepidine

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adjective

Having an embryonic apparatus in which the protoconch is completely enveloped by the deuteroconch, both chambers adhering only at one point of contact.

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Meanings

adjective
  1. biologyHaving an embryonic apparatus in which the protoconch is completely enveloped by the deuteroconch, both chambers adhering only at one point of contact.

    The embryonic chambers are eulepidine.

    1953, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, page 36
    2 more examples

    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 […]

    1937, Joseph Augustine Cushman, Raymond Cecil Moore, John Bernard Reeside, Journal of Paleontology, volume 11, page 104

    The trybliolepidine type has developed independently from the eulepidine.

    2015, Vladimir Pokorný, John W. Neale, Principles of Zoological Micropalaeontology, page 438

Origin

From eu- + lepidine.

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