pseudo-umbilical
English
Adjective
pseudo-umbilical (not comparable)
- Alternative form of pseudoumbilical
- 1993, Leighton R. Taylor, Sharks of Hawaii: Their Biology and Cultural Significance, →ISBN, page 15:
- This near-term gray reef pup bears a pseudo-umbilical cord that connects the young shark to maternal tissue.
- 2011, P. Stewart, Sex and Aesthetics in Samuel Beckett's Work, →ISBN:
- Between these two options, lies a third: a pseudo-umbilical linkage: “I toyed briefly with the idea of attaching him to me by means of a long rope, its two ends tied about our waists.
- 2012, Vladimir Rovenski, Foliations on Riemannian Manifolds and Submanifolds, →ISBN, page 130:
- If there exists a function X on the submanifold M such that (h(x, y), H) = X(x, y) for any vector fields x and y on M, then M is called a pseudo-umbilical submanifold.
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