Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
sulcate .
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- adjective
sulcate
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Examples
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The horns of the male are sub-triangular, much compressed laterally and posteriorly; in fact one may say concave at the sides, that is, from the base of the horn to about one half; transversely sulcated; curving outwards, and returning inward towards the face; points convergent.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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-- General colour brownish-grey, beneath paler; belly white; a short beard of stiffish brown hair; the horns of the male are sub-triangular, rather compressed laterally and rounded posteriorly, deeply sulcated, curving outward and backward from the skull; points divergent.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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Hodgsonii_, but it differs in its much smaller size, in its deeply sulcated horns, the angles of which are very much rounded, and the terminal curve but slightly developed.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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A deep sulcated cavity is formed by the thick and thin involuted parts of the bone.
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They are flat on one side; the enamel extends to the root on both sides; it is more regularly sulcated upon the convex than upon the other side; fig. 55 young of the sulcidens.
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They are, however, more deeply sulcated in concentric lines, drawn, as if by a pair of compasses, from the umbone, and somewhat resembling those of the genus
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We, besides, found in them at least two species of Pecten, with two species of Terebratula, -- the one smooth, the other sulcated; a bivalve resembling a Donax; another bivalve, evidently a Gervillia, though apparently of a species not yet described; and the ill-preserved rings of large Ammonites, from ten inches to a foot in diameter.
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There occurs in great numbers a species of small Pecten, -- some of the specimens scarce larger than a herring scale; a minute Ostrea, a sulcated Terebratula, an Isocardia, a Pullastra, and groups of broken serpulæ in vast abundance.
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Both species bear the longitudinal groove in the centre, and when broken across, are found to contain numerous smaller shells, -- Terebratulæ of both the smooth and sulcated kinds, and a species of minute smooth Pecten resembling the _Pecten demissus_, but smaller.
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I found detached on the shore, immediately below this bed, a piece of calcareous fissile sandstone, abounding in small sulcated
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