lophophore
(ˈləʊfəfɔə(r))
[f. Gr. λόϕο-ς crest + -ϕόρ-ος bearing. (In sense 2, ad. mod.L. Lophophorus.)]
1. Zool. In Polyzoa, the oral disc at the free end of the polypide, bearing the tentacles.
| 1850 Allman in Brit. Assoc. Rept. (1851) 307 The sort of disc or stage which surrounds the mouth and bears the tentacula, I have called Lophophore. 1855 Eng. Cycl., Nat. Hist. III. 861/1. 1885 A. S. Pennington Brit. Zoophytes 19. |
2. A bird with crested crown and brilliant plumage, belonging to the genus Lophophorus of the family Phasianidæ. [Cf. F. lophophore.]
| 1883 Fortn. Rev. 1 Sept. 348 One of her dresses..made up principally of the feathers of the bright-plumaged lophophore. 1884 Western Daily Press 29 May 3/7 A butterfly, made of the feathers of the lophophore. |
Hence loˈphophoral a., of or pertaining to a lophophore (sense 1).
| 1890 in Century Dict.; and in other recent Dicts. |