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bauplan
n. (context biology English) A plan of the essential elements of the body of a related group of organisms
Usage examples of "bauplan".
Maybe the very success of the arthropod Bauplan militates against them ever evolving into forms suitable of filling the ecological niche of large terrestrial life forms.
It's a marvel that a "molluscan" Bauplan could provide enough flexibility for these things to evolve into land animals.
All his professorial estimates of the limitations of the molluscan Bauplan seemed a mirage.
Not for the first time, Agayan concluded that the vertebrate structure which was by far the most common Bauplan of the galaxy's intelligent races was a curse on its possessors.