tecnomorph

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noun

The carapace of a larval ostracod.

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Meanings

nountecnomorph (plural tecnomorphs)

plural tecnomorphs

  1. biologyThe carapace of a larval ostracod.

    In stratigraphically later genera with histial dimorphism frequently no histial structure and also no velar structure at all is present in the tecnomorphs.

    1957, Bulletin of the Geological Institution of the University of Upsala, Volume 37, page 203

Origin

From tecno- + -morph.

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