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AMBULACRUM (ambulacra)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ambulacrum mean?
• AMBULACRUM (noun)
The noun AMBULACRUM has 1 sense:
1. one of the five areas on the undersurface of an echinoderm on which the tube feet are located
Familiarity information: AMBULACRUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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