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What does excurrent mean?

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Adjective
  1. (botany) Of a vein or costa, extending beyond the tip or the margin of a leaf.
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These skeletal features readily evident in outer part, but in inner part, where numerous excurrent canals occur, structure obscured by recrystallization.
The oxygen analyzer monitored and averaged the oxygen content of excurrent air every 60 s and downloaded the data to a computer.
Colonies with greater than 12 individuals across, may have fixed water excurrent chimneys reflected in the skeleton.
The basic body form of sponges consists of numerous small incurrent canals called ostia and one or more large excurrent opening called oscula.
The velocity of the excurrent stream through the osculum may be several hundred times that at the level of the choanocytes.
Very similar structures, observed on living sponges of the genus Astrosclera, represent excurrent canal systems.

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