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Definition of Ambulacra
1. ambulacrum [n] - See also: ambulacrum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ambulacra
Literary usage of Ambulacra
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1885)
"... spines for co-ordinated action is highly remarkable and interesting. Thus,
for instance, if an urchin be taken FIGS. 11 AND 12.—SIGHTING AND Ambulacra! ..."
2. The microscope and its revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter (1856)
"... or rosette which is contained in the tip of every one of the tubular suckers
put forth '>y the living Echinus from the ambulacra! pores of its shell. ..."
3. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1871)
"In Metalia the ambulacra! petals are more sunken than in Pl<ii//n,t- otus, and
this is notably the case in M. nobilis. ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The five оси- Far plates are situated radially, crowning the apical ends of the
ambulacra ; on the surface of each is a depression, having a pore for an ..."
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