obliquicanaliculate

English

Etymology

From oblique and canaliculate.

Adjective

obliquicanaliculate (not comparable)

1. (zoology, of an egg from pseudo-avian dinosaurs) Having pore canals cut diagonally through multiple eggshell units instead of going between them like in other pore systems. Obliquicanaliculate pores are only found in a single oogenus: Preprismatoolithus.

Coordinate terms

• multicanaliculate
• angusticanaliculate
• prolatocanaliculate
• rimocanaliculate
• tubocanaliculate