centra

[ sen-truh ]

noun

1. a plural of centrum.

centra

/ ˈsɛntrə /

noun

1. a plural of centrum

Example Sentences

Yellen, speaking a week after the Fed delayed a long-anticipated rate hike, said she and other Fed policymakers do not expect recent global economic and financial market developments to significantly affect the centra bank's policy.

From Reuters

The centra of the cervical and dorsal vertebrae have peculiar, S-shaped articular surfaces, and they interlock tightly.

From Scientific American

When the vertebrae are free their centra articulate with each other by complicated joints, exhibiting four types.

From Project Gutenberg

All are of the coelacanth type, having Y-shaped neural and haemal arches, without centra.

From Project Gutenberg

The cartilage is hard and semi-transparent, the notochord jelly-like, least at the centres of the centra, and at a maximum intervertebrally.-

From Project Gutenberg