obliquicanaliculate

/AH0 B L IH1 K W AH0 K AH0 N AE1 L AH0 K Y AH0 L EY1 T/
adjective
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    (zoology, of an egg from pseudo-avian dinosaurs) Having pore canals cut diagonally through multiple eggshell units instead of going between them like in other pore systems. Obliquicanaliculate pores are only found in a single oogenus: Preprismatoolithus.

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