Meaning of pleurembolic | Babel Free

Definitions

Capable of being withdrawn by a backward movement of the parts from which it protrudes so that it becomes engulfed.

not-comparable

Examples

“Some scattered melanophores in fundus of atrium, a few pigment cells along seminal groove. Male atrium (a) narrow in front, wide behind. Its fundus forms a deep fold which receives seminal groove and functions as pleurembolic penis (p).”

“The proboscis wall itself is highly muscular and has longitudinal, circular and diagonal muscle layers. It is of the pleurembolic type characteristic of the Buccinacea.”

“The acrembolic type has appeared independently several times in gastropods, including some heterobranchs, while the pleurembolic proboscis may have appeared only once.”

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