suborthochoanitic

adjective

(of nautiloids) Slightly recurved short septal necks, between orthochoanitic and cyrtochoanitic.

Scrabble 29

Meanings

adjectivesuborthochoanitic (not comparable)
  1. not comparablebiology(of nautiloids) Slightly recurved short septal necks, between orthochoanitic and cyrtochoanitic.

Origin

From sub- + orthochoanitic. Invented by R. H. Flower in 1946. "Ordovician cephalopods of the Cincinnati region". Bull. Amer. Paleontology, vol. 29, no. 116

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