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Evolution of the cleidoic egg among reptilian ancestors of birds.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Evolution of the cleidoic egg among reptilian ancestors of birds.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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there is no going back when the cleidoic stare fixes you in place, spears your eyes with its steely tips, sires an obdurate embrace.
Archive 2007-06-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2007
bestiary commented on the word cleidoic
adj: (embryology) isolated from the environment, as certain eggs enclosed within a shell or membrane.
(origin: 1930–35; < greek kleido(ûn) to lock up (v. deriv. of kleís (gen. kleidós) bolt, key) + -ic)
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July 23, 2008
biocon commented on the word cleidoic
cleidoic = closed, isolated from the ambient, as vertebrate eggs that are invested by a shell or membrane
May 9, 2017