tubocanaliculate

English

Etymology

tube +‎ -o- +‎ canaliculate

Adjective

tubocanaliculate (not comparable)

1. (zoology, of an egg from pseudo-avian dinosaurs) Having large-diameter pores with funnel-shaped openings on both inner and outer surfaces of the shell. These eggs would have a high gas exchange rate, and therefore were probably buried in humid mounds.

Coordinate terms

• angusticanaliculate
• multicanaliculate
• obliquicanaliculate
• prolatocanaliculate
• rimocanaliculate