incudate

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English

Adjective

incudate (not comparable)

  1. (zoology, anatomy) Of, pertaining to or having an incus (bone of the middle ear).
  2. (zoology, of mastaxes or trophi of rotifers) That functions by prehension; used as a classification.
    incudate trophi
    • 1889, Charles Thomas Hudson, Philip Henry Gosse, The Rotifera: Or, Wheel-animalcules, Volume 1, page 120:
      The incudate trophi of Asplanchna are massive forceps quite free from an inclosing mastax, and capable in consequence of even plunging down into the oesophagus; but the forcipate trophi of Sacculus are feeble hooks and blades, inclosed in a grape-shaped mastax, and admitting of only a slight protrusion from the mouth.
    • 1967, G. Evelyn Hutchinson, A Treatise on Limnology, Volume II: Introduction to Lake Biology and the Limnoplankton, page 531:
      FIGURE 140. […] A-E with a malleate mastax in the Brachionidae and a malleo-ramate in the Flosculariaceae, mainly feed by sedimenting; F and G with virgate or incudate mastax, respectively, are more selective and raptorial.
    • 1979, Richard S. Stemberger, A Guide to Rotifers of the Laurentian Great Lakes, Volume 1, US Environmental Protection Agency, page 10:
      Forcipate and incudate trophi function in grasping.
    • 2005, Diego Fontaneto, Giulio Melone, “Do rotifer jaws grow after hatching?”, in Alois Herzig, Ramesh D. Gulati, Christian D. Jersabek, Linda May, editors, Rotifera X: Rotifer Research: Trends, New Tools and Recent Advances, Springer, page 215:
      Asplanchna priodonta (Asplanchnidae) is a planktonic predator with incudate trophi, showing a wide trophic spectrum, feeding on rotifers, protists, and various unicellular algae (Jose de Paggi, 2002).
    • 2018, Fstik Baran Mandal, Biology of Non-Chordates, 2nd edition, PHI Learning, page 198:
      In Asplanchnidae, rami are large and hooked and constitute incudate mastax, but reduced rami may be present.

Synonyms

  • (of or pertaining to an incus): incudal

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