Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of the five radial areas on the undersurface of the starfish and similar echinoderms, from which the tube feet are protruded and withdrawn.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In zoology, a row, series, or other set of perforations in the shell of an echinoderm, as a sea-urchin or starfish, through which are protruded and withdrawn the tube-feet or pedicels.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays.
- noun One of the suckers on the feet of mites.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A row of
pores for the protrusion ofappendages such astube feet.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one of the five areas on the undersurface of an echinoderm on which the tube feet are located
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Giuseppe Raffaelli depicted her with precisely these attributes in his statue for the ambulacrum of Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas HELEN F. NORTH 1968
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At the side of each cell door is the guichet or hatch, through which the monk's food is introduced by a lay brother; within, a covered ambulacrum, with a small garden beside it, leads to the house.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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After dinner there is an hour and a half of solitary recreation, which may be spent in garden, ambulacrum, or cell at will, and is followed by None; spiritual reading, study, and manual labour till half-past two, when Vespers de
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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a single large ambulacrum or "cryptoporticus in gamma", that is turned at right angles with its own staircase.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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