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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy, a promontory.
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Evolutionary origins of the mammalian promontorium and cochlea.
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Furthermore, while the cochleal canal is shorter, and the promontorium is smaller, in basal mammaliaforms than is the case in mammals (Luo et al. 1995), Morganucodon in more mammal-like in these features than are more basal mammaliaforms (like Sinoconodon).
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Mammals have an elongated cochleal canal and a promontorium on the petrosal, features involved in improving both high-frequency hearing and the acoustic isolation of the inner ear.
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Latitudo inter Nili fontes et promontorium Bonæ Spei mill.
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At in Atlantico Oceano contra Hesperium promontorium, quod nunc est Cabo Verde, Hesperides sunt insulae duae; ultraque
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Longitudo summa computatur ab Herculis freto ad promontorium Bonæ Spei mill.
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Nec promontorium est: sed mons ferè mediterraneus.
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Item Aristoteles: circa Iapygiam promontorium, esse fontem, qui sanguinem fundat, addens, eam maris partem suo foetore nauigantes procul arcere.
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Quod si ver� cum illius gratia vlterior illac nauigatio detur, suaderem profecto non prim鵰 Tabin promontorium qu鎟ere, atque explorare, sed Sinum hunc atque flumina, in ijsque portum aliquem commodissimum, station閙que Anglicis Mercatoribus deligere, ex quo deinceps maiore opportunitate, minorib鷖que periculis Tabin promontorium, et totius Cathai circumnauigatio indagari posset.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Rupes siue promontorium Hecla æstuans perpetuis ignibus.
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