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Results for “strip”

Ichthyological terms, not general ones.

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  • strip

    To artificially remove gametes from for captive breeding; to forcefully remove eggs or fry from the buccal cavity of a mouthbrooding fish in order to hatch/raise them elsewhere.

    Used in 140 profiles

  • striped

    Possessing one or more stripes.

    Used in 80 profiles

  • stripe

    Narrow band of colour or tissue distinguished from the surrounding surface by colour or texture. Often arranged in a parallel series.

    Used in 437 profiles

  • isthmus

    Narrow strip of land connecting two larger areas, or a narrow strip of tissue connecting two larger body parts. In ichthyology often used in reference to the fleshy throat region of a fish which externally separates the two gill chambers.

    Used in 26 profiles

  • anastomosis

    The connection of separate parts of a branching system to form a network. Sometimes used to describe the process by which a relatively regular, e.g. striped, patterning in juveniles of certain fishes breaks up as they mature.

    Used in 6 profiles

  • chevron

    A v-shaped line or stripe.

    Used in 4 profiles

  • midlateral

    Orientated laterally along the middle of something, e.g., a midlateral stripe.

    Used in 111 profiles

  • ridge

    In morphology, an elongate, raised strip, margin or border on a bone, tooth, tissue membrane, etc.

    Used in 60 profiles