the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Of or pertaining to ambulacra; avenuelike.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Of or pertaining to an ambulacrum, or to the ambulacra, of an echinoderm.
Situated on the side which bears the ambulacra; hence, in Stelleroidea and Crinoidea, oral.
n. Same as ambulacral ossicle or plate.
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adj. pertaining to the ambulacra of radial echinoderms
Word Usage
"Echinoderms the interambulacral plates are absent; there are no rows of plates of a different kind alternating with the ambulacral ones, as in the Sea-Urchins and the Star-Fishes, but the ab-oral region closes immediately upon the ambulacra."