duplicature

Compare French duplicature.

duplicature (plural duplicatures) (archaic)

1. A doubling; a fold, especially of a membrane.
   • 1978, Philip D. Gingerich, New Condylarthra (Mammalia) from the Paleocene and Early Eocene of North America, page 289:

     The genus Saipanetta has been suggested to be a surviving relict of the metacopidan superfamily Healdiacea because of its muscle scar pattern and narrow duplicature; nevertheless, it differs from the Metacopida in its more complex hingement, lack of a distinct contact groove, exaggerated domiciliar asymmetry, and lack of posterior ridges or angulations.

• “duplicature”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

duplicature f (plural duplicatures)

1. duplicature

duplicātūre

1. vocative masculine singular of duplicātūrus