conˈcamerated, ppl. a.
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
† 1. gen. Vaulted, arched. Obs.
| 1666 J. Smith Old Age (1676) 139 Of the same concamerated form. 1681 Grew Museum (J.), Of the upper beak, an inch and a half consisteth of one concamerated bone. 1755 Hodgson in Phil. Trans. 359 A concamerated room. |
2. Zool. Divided into chambers, as a chambered shell.
| 1746 Da Costa in Phil. Trans. XLIV. 398 A Shell..related to the Nautilus kind: It is concamerated. 1754 ibid. XLVIII. 803 The nautilus..is a concamerated shell. 1854 Woodward Mollusca ii. 176 Pomatias..shell slender..operculum cartilaginous, concamerated within. |