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Biconcave

adjective
1.
Concave on both sides.  Synonym: concavo-concave.






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"Biconcave" Quotes from Famous Books



... differentiated, condition than that of the younger genera. Thus the Devonian Ganoids, though almost all members of the same sub-order as 'Polypterus', and presenting numerous important resemblances to the existing genus, which possesses biconcave vertebrae, are, for the most part, wholly devoid of ossified vertebral centra. The Mesozoic Lepidosteidae, again, have, at most, biconcave vertebrae, while the existing 'Lepidosteus' has Salamandroid, opisthocoelous, vertebrae. ...
— Geological Contemporaneity and Persistent Types of Life • Thomas H. Huxley



Words linked to "Biconcave" :   concave



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