Crossword clues for ambulacrum
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ambulacrum \Am`bu*la"crum\, n.; pl. Ambulacra. [L., an alley or covered way.] (Zo["o]l.)
One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays.
One of the suckers on the feet of mites.
Wiktionary
n. (context of an echinoderm English) A row of pores for the protrusion of appendages such as tube feet.
WordNet
n. one of the five areas on the undersurface of an echinoderm on which the tube feet are located
[also: ambulacra (pl)]
Wikipedia
An ambulacrum is an architectural term for the atrium, courtyard, or parvise in front of a basilica that is surrounded by arcades or colonnades, often containing a fountain, and is surrounded by trees.
It can also refer to any walking path specifically created with trees.
In zoology, an ambulacrum is an elongated area of the shell of an echinoderm in which a row of tube feet are arranged. It is pluralized as ambulacra. The area on the shell between ambulacra is known as an interambulacrum.
Usage examples of "ambulacrum".
Finally, the corridor they had taken ended in the ambulacrum behind the columns that encircled the crypt where, the last time, they had seen Zosimos.