obliquicanaliculate

adjective

Having pore canals cut diagonally through multiple eggshell units instead of going between them like in other pore systems. Obliquicanaliculate pores are only found in a single oogenus: Preprismatoolithus.

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Meanings

adjectiveobliquicanaliculate (not comparable)
  1. not comparablebiologyHaving pore canals cut diagonally through multiple eggshell units instead of going between them like in other pore systems. Obliquicanaliculate pores are only found in a single oogenus: Preprismatoolithus.

Origin

From oblique and canaliculate.

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