Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bearing cameras, as the shells of the Cephalopoda, Foraminifera, etc.
- In architecture, arched; vaulted: as, a camerated roof.
- In zoology, divided by partitions into a series of chambers; chambered; hollowed out; fornicated; vaulted.
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Examples
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The camerated roof of the back part of the chancel was formerly covered with paintings executed in 1686 representing Dooms-day.
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Another characteristic of attached pelecypods is camerated structure, which is most frequent and extensive in the thick attached valve.
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