concameration

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English

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Etymology

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Latin concameratio.

Noun

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concameration (plural concamerations)

  1. An arch or vault, especially a system of interconnecting vaults
  2. (zoology) A chamber of a multilocular shell.
    • 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; [], London: [] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden [], →OCLC:
      impossible concamerations