Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In entomology, at or near the base; proximally.
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- adverb In a
basal manner
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Examples
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Its epithelium is of the simple columnar type, the cells being long, with generally basally located nuclei.
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator C. M. [Illustrator] Reese
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The tribal Indians encountered by the 19th century U.S. Cavalry, on the other hand, were like every single primitive culture ever discovered in the wildernesses of earth: their lives, however natural and estimable, are intensely and basally physical -- incredibly hard, short, laden with toil and disease, and in any terms that we celebrants of their
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The above results show that when large phylogenies are used containing polytomous nodes basally in the tree the researcher may expect to have substantially reduced statistical power to detect non-random phylogenetic community structure.
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Cnidarian sequences related to bilaterian "posterior" Hox (HOX9-14) branch basally to the latter in paraphyly.
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In some cases, gene relationships among cnidarian groups are congruent with the species phylogeny: hydrozoan sequences are sister-group to scyphozoan sequences, with anthozoan sequences branching basally to this ensemble.
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The lack of resolution in more terminal internal nodes is common in studies using phylogenetic supertrees, but these studies also tend to have polytomous nodes basally as well
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The earliest steps in animal evolution remain obscure, but can be illuminated by comparative studies between the most basally branching animal groups, notably sponges, cnidarians and ctenophores.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Pascal Lapébie et al. 2009
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I have many payroll sheets, tax forms, etcetera .. basally calculators / spredsheets I set up in excel so I can do things quickly over the years.
PCLinuxOS-Forums 2008
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I have many payroll sheets, tax forms, etcetera .. basally calculators / spredsheets I set up in excel so I can do things quickly over the years.
PCLinuxOS-Forums 2008
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I have many payroll sheets, tax forms, etcetera .. basally calculators / spredsheets I set up in excel so I can do things quickly over the years.
PCLinuxOS-Forums 2008
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