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Definition of Ambulacral
1. Adjective. Pertaining to the ambulacra of radial echinoderms.
Partainyms: Ambulacrum
Derivative terms: Ambulacrum
Definition of Ambulacral
1. a. Of or pertaining to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms.
Definition of Ambulacral
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to an ambulacrum ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ambulacral
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Ambulacral
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ambulacral
Literary usage of Ambulacral
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, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Transverse muscular fibres unite the lateral halves of the arm-segments; similar
fibres supply the floor of the ambulacral groove ; besides these there are ..."
2. A Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals by Thomas Henry Huxley (1888)
"142, A) each ambulacral plate is thus divided into three pore-plates, traversed
altogether by six pores, or short canals. The outer openings of these canals ..."
3. Monograph on the British Fossil Echinodermata from the Cretaceous Formations by Walter Percy Sladen, William Kingdon Spencer, Thomas Wright (1880)
"The auricular processes are, indeed, in most sea-urchins, processes of the
ambulacral plates, and the ambulacral organs pass between them; but in Cidaris ..."
4. Handbook of Invertebrate Zoology: For Laboratories and Seaside Work by William Keith Brooks (1882)
"Each inter-ambulacral plate is nearly rectangular, the sides being longer ...
It articulates by its sides with the adjacent inter-ambulacral plates of the ..."
5. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1872)
"Radiating from the mouth are a series of furrows, varying in number with the
arms, and termed the " ambulacral grooves." Each ambulacral groove is continued ..."
6. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"The ring canal (4) and the radial canals of the ambulacral system are extra-skeletal
in position, the former lying at the margin of the peristome and the ..."
7. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1900)
"have no ambulacral groove. The arms are generally sharply marked off from the disc,
... Ophiuroidea in which the ambulacral ossicles are alternate, ..."
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