punctate
1. Applied to any structure that is marked by pores or by very small, pointlike depressions.

2.. Applied to a type of brachiopod (Brachiopoda) shell structure in which fine pores (punctae) extend from the inner to the outer surface. Three main shell types are recognized: impunctate, where the shell consists of an outer, lamellar layer of shell and an inner, fibrous layer; punctate (or endopunctate), in which the punctae extend through the shell and end beneath the organic periostracum; and pseudopunctate, in which solid rods of calcite (taleolae) are contained in the fibrous layer.

punctate
1. Applied to any structure that is marked by pores or by very small, point-like depressions.

2. Applied to a type of brachiopod shell structure in which fine tubes or pores extend from the inner to almost the outer surface.

punctate Applied to any structure that is marked by pores or by very small, point-like depressions.

punctate Applied to any structure that is marked by pores or by very small, point-like depressions.

punctate (punk-tayt) adj. spotted or dotted.