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pleurembolic

adjective

  1. Capable of being withdrawn by a backward movement of the parts from which it protrudes so that it becomes engulfed.

    Some scattered melanophores in fundus of atrium, a few pigment cells along seminal groove. Male atrium (a) narrow in front, wide behind. Its fundus forms a deep fold which receives seminal groove and functions as pleurembolic penis (p).

Where it comes from

From Ancient Greek πλευρά (pleurá, “a rib, a side of something”) + Ancient Greek ἔμβολος (émbolos, “peg, stopper”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry pleurembolic (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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