Word Meanings - AMBULACRAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms.

PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
SPINESCENCE
The state or quality of being spinescent or spiny; also, a spiny growth or covering, as of certain animals.
AMBULACRAL
Of or pertaining to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms.
SPINESCENT
Becoming hard and thorny; tapering gradually to a rigid, leafless point; armed with spines. Gray.
INTERAMBULACRAL
Of or pertaining to the interambulacra.
ANTAMBULACRAL
Away from the ambulacral region.
ADAMBULACRAL
Next to the ambulacra; as, the adambulacral ossicles of the starfish.
APPERTAIN
To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach