NOUN
- one of the five areas on the undersurface of an echinoderm on which the tube feet are located
How To Use ambulacrum In A Sentence
- It is contained by four rows of plates with the plates smaller along the dorsal side, probably indicating an ambulacrum.
- The major orifice opposite the aulacophore is the anus, with the mouth somewhere near the ambulacrum.
- The interambulacrum of Meekechinus contains only three columns of plates, which is more similar than the aboral side of Pronechinus to the interpretation of the interambulacrum of the Brownwood echinocystitid.
- After dinner there is an hour and a half of solitary recreation, which may be spent in garden, ambulacrum, or cell at will, and is followed by None; spiritual reading, study, and manual labour till half-past two, when Vespers de The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
- a single large ambulacrum or "cryptoporticus in gamma", that is turned at right angles with its own staircase. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
- At the side of each cell door is the guichet or hatch, through which the monk's food is introduced by a lay brother; within, a covered ambulacrum, with a small garden beside it, leads to the house. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
- Giuseppe Raffaelli depicted her with precisely these attributes in his statue for the ambulacrum of Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
