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antambulacral, a. Zool.|ˌæntæmbjuːˈleɪkrəl, -ˈækrəl| Also anti-amb-. [f. ant- + ambulacral.] Opposite to what is ambulacral. (In Echinoderms it sometimes happens that the ambulacral zones do not extend from one pole of the body to the other. Where the ambulacral zone ends, the antambulacral begins, as in the apex of a sea-urchin, or the upper side of a star-fish.)
1870Rolleston Anim. Life 142 The antiambulacral surface. 1877Huxley Anat. Inv. An. 553 [In a Starfish] the ambulacral, and the opposite, or antambulacral faces are of equal extent. |