platycoelian

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English

Etymology

From platy- + Ancient Greek κοῖλος (koîlos, “hollow”) + -ian.

Adjective

platycoelian (comparative more platycoelian, superlative most platycoelian)

  1. (anatomy) Flat at the anterior and concave at the posterior end; said of the centra of the vertebrae of some dinosaurs.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “platycoelian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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