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Webster 1913 Edition
Ambulacrum
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Amˊbu-la′crum
,Noun.
pl.
Ambulacra
. [L., an alley or covered way.]
(Zool.)
(a)
One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays.
(b)
One of the suckers on the feet of mites.
Definition 2024
ambulacrum
ambulacrum
English
Noun
ambulacrum (plural ambulacrums or ambulacra)
- (of an echinoderm) A row of pores for the protrusion of appendages such as tube feet.
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Translations
row of pores for the protrusion of tube feet in echinoderms
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Latin
Etymology
From ambulō (“walk; travel”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /am.buˈlaː.krum/
Noun
ambulācrum n (genitive ambulācrī); second declension
Inflection
Second declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | ambulācrum | ambulācra |
genitive | ambulācrī | ambulācrōrum |
dative | ambulācrō | ambulācrīs |
accusative | ambulācrum | ambulācra |
ablative | ambulācrō | ambulācrīs |
vocative | ambulācrum | ambulācra |
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- English: ambulacrum
References
- ambulacrum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “ambulacrum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.