Definition of Autotomous

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Autotomous

autotetraploid
autotetraploids
autotetraploidy
autotheism
autotheistic
autotherapies
autotherapy
autothermic
autotomic
autotomies
autotomise
autotomize
autotomized
autotomizes
autotomizing
autotomous
autotomy
autotonsorialist
autotopagnosia
autotoxaemia
autotoxic
autotoxicities
autotoxicity
autotoxicosis
autotoxin
autotoxins
autotransformation
autotransformer
autotransformers
autotransfusion

Literary usage of Autotomous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... autotomous; arms t in size; aquiferous pores on head and funnel. ... not autotomous- No cephalic aquiferous [ Octopus, two rows of suckers on each arm, ..."

2. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1906)
"... is autotomous. The arms are unequal in size but similar in the two sexes ... arm autotomous. The extremities of the dorsal arms are enlarged in the ..."

3. A Student's Text-book of Zoology by Adam Sedgwick, Joseph Jackson Lister, Arthur Everett Shipley (1898)
"... arm autotomous (Fig. 365). Argonauta L., the paper-nautilus. Fam. 5. ... arm autotomous ; other anus all alike in the two sexes; large aquiferous pores ..."

4. Contributions from the Bermuda Biological Station for Research by Bermuda Biological Station for Research (1916)
"The relative abundance of cases in which there are evident two groups of rays of different length indicates that, as in Linckia (Clark, 1913), autotomous ..."

5. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1906)
"... thus, species with more than 10 filimi not to normal growth, but to amputation, presumably autotomous, and disprove this ingenious theory by cultivating ..."

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