tubocanaliculate
Meanings
adj
- Having large-diameter pores with funnel-shaped openings on both inner and outer surfaces of the shell. These eggs would have a high gas exchange rate, and therefore were probably buried in humid mounds.
Word forms
Etymology
From tube + -o- + canaliculate.
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