Meanings
- not comparableHaving a single crus (leglike shank)
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Additionally, these authors suggested that monocrurate stapes are thought to be of positive fitness for aquatic mammals whereas bicrurate stapes provide enhanced hearing abilities for terrestrial forms; however, it is important to note that the functional significance of these conditions has not been explored in detail comparing animals of similar habitats.
2015 July 16, “The Stapes of Gomphodont Cynodonts: Insights into the Middle Ear Structure of Non-Mammaliaform Cynodonts”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
Origin
From mono- + Latin crur- + -ate.
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