scrobitulation

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noun

The condition or quality of being scrobiculate.

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Meanings

nounscrobitulation (countable and uncountable, plural scrobitulations)

plural scrobitulations

  1. countableuncountablebiologyThe condition or quality of being scrobiculate.

    ...laterally compressed cephalon, mostly effaced, showing weak scrobiculation; same locality...

    1995, John H Shergold, Osvaldo Bordonaro, Eladio Liñán, “Late Cambrian Agnostoid Trilobites from Argentina”, in Palaeontology, volume 38, page 244
  2. countableuncountableA pattern or arrangement of small shallow depressions on a surface.

    The remarkable keel-like liration within the outer wall of the body-whorl, indicated exteriorly by a scrobiculation running parallel with the suture, distinguishes this species from its allies.

    1903, Edgar A. Smith, “Descriptions of New Species of Land Shells from Central Africa”, in Journal of Conchology, volume 10, page 315
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