imperforate

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The abnormal varieties in this series are of course the imperforate ones, and of these we present cuts of a full set in blocks of four, numbered 100 to 105 on Plate IX.

From Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery by Howes, Clifton Armstrong

The acetabulum for the head of the femur is imperforate, being a simple oval basin, as in Chelonian reptiles and the higher Mammals.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Seeley, H. G.

The stamp is nearly square, and the specimens possessed by our correspondent are imperforate.

From Gambia by Melville, Frederick John

It is a fact that he is "collected" like postage-stamps, though no published work of his has attained the price per copy of the imperforate twopenny Mauritius of 1847.

From George Cruikshank by Chesson, W. H.

One female trapped on February 19, 1950, weighed only 140 grams and was still imperforate.

From Ecological Observations on the Woodrat, Neotoma floridana by Fitch, Henry S.