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AMBULACRUM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: ambulacra   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the five areas on the undersurface of an echinoderm on which the tube feet are located

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("ambulacrum" is a kind of...):

body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)

Holonyms ("ambulacrum" is a part of...):

echinoderm (marine invertebrates with tube feet and five-part radially symmetrical bodies)

Derivation:

ambulacral (pertaining to the ambulacra of radial echinoderms)

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