rursiradiate

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English

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin rūrsus + radiate.

Adjective

rursiradiate (not comparable)

  1. (malacology, of the ribs of a cephalopod shell) Inclined backward.
    • 2016 January 14, “Paleobiology of the Latest Tithonian (Late Jurassic) Ammonite Salinites grossicostatum Inferred from Internal and External Shell Parameters”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
      They are rursiradiate on the middle of the flank and become prorsiradiate towards the venter.

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