tubocanaliculate
English
Adjective
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.
Coordinate terms
- multicanaliculate
- obliquicanaliculate
- prolatocanaliculate
- rimocanaliculate
- angusticanaliculate