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canaliculate

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can·a·lic·u·late  (kn-lky-lt, -lt)
adj.
Having one or more longitudinal grooves or channels.
[Latin canlicultus, from canliculus, diminutive of canlis, channel; see canal.]
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Adj.1.canaliculate - having thin parallel channels; "canaliculate leafstalks of certain plants"
furrowed, rugged - having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface; "furrowed fields"; "his furrowed face lit by a warming smile"
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78) dextral, up to 30 mm, thick, elongate and acute-conical, 7-14 whorls, apical whorls bearing 1-3 carinae; body whorl shouldered at outer periphery, striate below; aperture angulate, lacrimate, canaliculate (Harmen & Berg 1971); growth lines inconspicuous; subfossils usually fragmented, lack periostracum.
An illustrated catalogue of macroscopic subfossils from ... by Swinehart, Anthony L. / Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science
 
 
 
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