Aboral is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 80 anagrams from letters in aboral (aablor).
First recorded in 1855-60; ab- + oral
These halves may be always easily distinguished, since the oral pole of each valve is constantly different from the aboral pole.
The pores are separated by high parallel crests and arranged in longitudinal rows, which converge towards the aboral hinge.
Note on the aboral surface of the disk a small striated calcareous plate, the madreporite or madreporic plate.
Ventral horn of the aboral hinge very large, pyramidal, one-third as long as the shell and three times as long as the dorsal.
The vertical main axis of the latter is also that of the nucleus, which usually lies somewhat nearer to the aboral pole.
The usual view that radiate forms have become bilateral by the elongation of the aboral dome into the trunk is probably erroneous.
Make a drawing of the aboral surface showing all these parts.
The pedal pores (on the base of the aboral feet) are usually larger than the dental pores (on the base of the circoral teeth).
The size of the meshes or alveoles is usually smallest on the aboral apex of the shell, and increases gradually towards the mouth.
Besides, a more solid junction is often effected on the posterior or aboral part of the margins, which we shall call the hinge.