tubocanaliculate

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Definitions
  • (zoology) 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.

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Affix from English tube + English canaliculate.

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English

canaliculate

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