multicanaliculate

English

Etymology

From multi- +‎ canaliculate.

Adjective

multicanaliculate (not comparable)

1. (zoology, of an egg from pseudo-avian dinosaurs) Having numerous, large, branching, and closely spaced pore canals. They have a high gas exchange rate, so like tubocanaliculate eggs they were probably also buried humid mounds.

Coordinate terms

• angusticanaliculate
• tubocanaliculate
• obliquicanaliculate
• rimocanaliculate
• prolatocanaliculate