Meanings
adjectiverursiradiate (not comparable)
- not comparablebiologyInclined backward.
They are rursiradiate on the middle of the flank and become prorsiradiate towards the venter.
2016 January 14, “Paleobiology of the Latest Tithonian (Late Jurassic) Ammonite Salinites grossicostatum Inferred from Internal and External Shell Parameters”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
Origin
- Latinrūrsus
- Englishrursiradiate
Ultimately from Latin rūrsus + radiate.
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