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Definitions

Adjective

1. 1
   Located to the side of an ectoaperture such as a pore. Typically used in reference to an abporal lacuna or hemisphere.

Etymology

From ab- + poral. First defined by the palynologist Roger Philip Wodehouse in 1928.

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