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Word Meanings - AMBULACRAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms.

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  • PERTAIN
    stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
  • SPINESCENCE
    The state or quality of being spinescent or spiny; also, a spiny growth or covering, as of certain animals.
  • AMBULACRAL
    Of or pertaining to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms.
  • SPINESCENT
    Becoming hard and thorny; tapering gradually to a rigid, leafless point; armed with spines. Gray.
  • INTERAMBULACRAL
    Of or pertaining to the interambulacra.
  • ANTAMBULACRAL
    Away from the ambulacral region.
  • ADAMBULACRAL
    Next to the ambulacra; as, the adambulacral ossicles of the starfish.
  • APPERTAIN
    To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach

 

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