Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To build in the form of an arch or vault.
  • Same as camerated.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To build in the form of a vault; to arch over.
  • intransitive verb To divide into chambers.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To build in the form of a vault; to arch over.
  • verb To divide into chambers.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Latin cameratus, past participle of camerare.

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Examples

  • The internal pneumatic structures of the sacral vertebrae are not as complex as those of the dorsal vertebrae, being more camerate than camellate [16: 346].

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Scott A. Hocknull et al. 2009

  • This contact preserves the distinctive somphospondylus internal bone texture found in the sacral vertebrae, dominated by large camerate vacuities.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Scott A. Hocknull et al. 2009

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