单词 | excalation |
释义 | > as lemmasexcaˈlation excaˈlation n. the omission, absence, or elimination of a part from the middle of a series; spec., in a race of organisms, the absence of any part, such as one of the middle digits or one of the vertebræ. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > [noun] > of a part from a series excalation1898 1898 Nature 22 Dec. 171/2 Kükenthal's discovery of excalation of fingers in the Cetacea. 1900 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 193 343 Hence the supposition of excalation of vertebræ in front of the girdle [of Mustelus vulgaris] leads also to the necessary corollary that a vast amount of both inter- and excalation must go on at another spot. < as lemmas |
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