Pallial

[pæliәl]

Definition

(a.) Of or pretaining to a mantle, especially to the mantle of mollusks; produced by the mantle; as, the pallial line, or impression, which marks the attachment of the mantle on the inner surface of a bivalve shell. See Illust. of Bivalve.

Typist: Maxine

Definition

adj. pertaining to a pallium.—n. Pall′iament (Shak.) a robe.

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