Crossword-Solution: BASALLY 7 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Its epithelium is of the simple columnar type, the cells being long, with generally basally located nuclei.

Tibia -ae: the shank: that part of the leg articulated to the femur basally and which bears the tarsus at the distal end.

Above dark brown, with an olivaceous wash, the fur being uniform dark brown to the base tipped with a slight tinge of olivaceous, the extreme tip slightly grayish in certain lights; below much lighter, the fur being dark brown basally and broadly tipped with pale buffy gray; ears and membranes black, naked, and with no trace of a whitish border.

All the cover hairs are gray basally; some have a buffy band terminally and others have a buffy subterminal band with a terminal black tip.

Externally _goldmani_ resembles _Neotoma lepida_ (examples from California, Utah, and Colorado) in having long, silky pelage; ochraceous buffy coloring, especially along sides; and underparts basally plumbeous except for a small throat patch where the hairs are entirely white in some individuals.