hairscale

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English

hairscale patterns

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Noun

hairscale (plural hairscales)

  1. A scale that is long and thin, resembling a hair.
    • 1974, Ø Moestrup, HA Thomsen, “An ultrastructural study of the flagellate Pyramimonas orientalis with particular emphasis on Golgi apparatus activity and the flagellar apparatus”, in Protoplasma:
      The hairscales are homologous with the other scales and this is our reason for suggesting the term hairscale. We strongly disagree with using only one term such as mastigonemes for all hair shaped appendages, since this implies a homology which is obviously not correct

References

  • hairscale”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.