Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word SUBANGULATE
SUBANGULATE
Definitions of SUBANGULATE
- Almost angulate; having a suggestion of corners or angles.
Number of letters
11
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using SUBANGULATE in a Sentence
- larval shell decollated in holotype but persisting whorls 81/^, turreted, strongly convex, sloping above to a high, subangulate shoulder; a flattened fold-like ridge strongly appressed against the suture is subtended by a shallow spiral furrow in the rather wide anal fasciole, the latter sculptured otherwise mainly by the very strong and coarse incremental striae and a few weak traces of low spirals; body of whorl marked by from 7 to 8 massive axial ribs (there are 7 on the last whorl) which are slightly knobbed on the shoulder, and 4 low but strong spiral ridges which over-ride both the axial ribs and their interspaces, the two central ridges being a trifle more widely separated than either is from its outer neighbor; base with about 13 or 14 gradually weakening spirals; the axial ribs pass onto the base but become obsolescent in the region of the canal.
- The spire-whorls are subconvex, subangulate just below the middle, and have the upper fourth somewhat adpressed just below the simple impressed suture.
- The protoconch is composed of two smooth whorls, the anterior being subangulate and vertically striated It terminates abruptly against the shell of the brephic stage, which is longitudinally, obliquely costated and marginate.
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