occlude
verb (used with object)
to close, shut, or stop up (a passage, opening, etc.).
occludent
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a word derived from
occlude.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Stutchbury's collection, there was a specimen, with the scuta, broad, smooth, thin, and fragile, without any ridge running from the umbo to the apex, and with the occludent margin reflexed.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
Terga, flat, oblong, nearly rectangular; occludent margin straight; basal angle, truncated, almost parallel to the occludent margin; in width, three or four times as wide as the carina.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
The basal margin of the lateral segment is narrow, inflected, and blends with the carino-tergal margin; it has an internal, prominent, basal rim, and towards the occludent margin a large, prominent, internal tooth.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
The occludent segments of the scuta, and nearly the whole of the terga, and the whole of the carina, enveloped in lemon-yellow membrane, tinged with orange, but the specimen had long been kept dry.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
The primordial valve is situated at this point, but chiefly on the occludent segment.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
