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“Evolution of the cleidoic egg among reptilian ancestors of birds.”
Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
“there is no going back when the cleidoic stare fixes you in place, spears your eyes with its steely tips, sires an obdurate embrace.”
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bestiary adj: (embryology) isolated from the environment, as certain eggs enclosed within a shell or membrane.
(origin: 1930–35; < greek kleido(ûn) to lock up (v. deriv. of kleís (gen. kleidós) bolt, key) + -ic)
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