tubocanaliculate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
tube + -o- + canaliculate
Adjective[edit]
tubocanaliculate (not comparable)
- (zoology, of an egg from pseudo-avian dinosaurs) 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.