umbones
- plural of umbo.
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Valves 2 to 5, minute, remote from each other: scuta with two or three lobes, with their umbones in the middle of the occludent margin: carina arched, upper and lower ends nearly alike.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
On most of the valves there are furrows and ridges diverging from the umbones, and the lines of growth are plainly marked: in the valves of the lower whorl, the umbones are slightly protuberant.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
Valves rather thick, opaque, either pale or dark flesh-red, smooth, yet rather plainly striated from the umbones.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
Scuta nearly oval, with their umbones at the rostral angle.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles
Shell oval, broad, thick; hinge margin subarcuated, the extremities winged and angulated; umbones prominent, the tips retuse.
From Zoological Illustrations, Volume III or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by Swainson, William
