multicanaliculate
English
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Adjective
multicanaliculate (not comparable)
- (zoology, of an egg from pseudo-avian dinosaurs) Having numerous, large, branching, and closely spaced pore canals. They have a high gas exchange rate, so like tubocanaliculate eggs they were probably also buried humid mounds.
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