Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated between the radii or rays: as, the interradial petals in an echinoderm. Compare
adradial . - noun A ray situated between rays, as in some crinoids; an interradiale.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Between the radii, or rays; -- in zoölogy, said of certain parts of radiate animals.
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- adjective Between the
radii , orrays .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The inhalent pores are very minute, and open into small subdermal cavities which communicate by means of interradial tubes with the ciliated chambers, the latter being very small ramifications of the interradial channels, and in them the movement causing the current of water is maintained.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 Various
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This process of absorption is probably accomplished in the interradial or ciliated chambers, more probably in the former, as the latter are generally considered excretory in function.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 Various
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Their apical sisters occupy interradial positions (1cd Confocal images (A) are shown in a z-projection (B) and an interpretive tracing (C).
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