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English
Etymology
From hypotheca + -al.
Adjective
hypothecal (not comparable)
- (microbiology, planktology) Of or pertaining to the hypotheca, the lower half of the shell of certain types of plankton
1978, Harold Charles Bold, Michael James Wynne, Introduction to the Algae: Structure and Reproduction, →ISBN, page 441:Two of the four hypothecal plates are very much enlarged.
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