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umbo
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The umbo (plural umbones or umbos ) is the vaguely defined, often most prominent, highest part of each valve of the shell of a bivalve or univalve mollusk . It usually contains the valve's beak , the oldest point of the valve, and its degree of prominence ...
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n. 1 (context biology English) A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane; as, the umbo in the integument of the larvæ of echinoderms or in the tympanic membrane of the ear. 2 (context zoology English) One ...
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n. a slight rounded elevation where the malleus attaches to the eardrum [also: umbones (pl)]
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The edges were obtuse, the caps fleshy, then corky, smooth, the upper ends not regular, oblique in the form of an umbo or little knob, the pellicles or outside layers thin and easily separated.