rimocanaliculate

English

Adjective

rimocanaliculate (not comparable)

1. (zoology, of an egg from pseudo-avian dinosaurs) Having very narrow, slit-like pore canals. This pore system is seen in modern ostriches, so these eggs were laid in open nests, similar to how ostriches do today.

Coordinate terms

• multicanaliculate
• obliquicanaliculate
• prolatocanaliculate
• angusticanaliculate
• tubocanaliculate