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Pterobranchia
Rhabdopleura was at first regarded as an aberrant polyzoon, but when the Challenger report on Cephalodiscus was published in 1887, it became clear that
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polyzoonite
polyzoonite Zool. rare. (pɒlɪˈzəʊənaɪt) [irreg. f. polyzoon + -ite1: cf. polypite.] An individual zooid of a polyzoon.1871 T. R. Jones Anim. Kingd. (ed. 4) 504 When the Polyzoonite retires into its abode, the setæ and soft termination of the cell are gradually folded inwards, in the manner exhibited...
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Polyzoa
‖ Polyzoa, n. pl. Zool. (pɒlɪˈzəʊə) Sing. polyzoon (-ˈzəʊɒn). [mod.L., f. Gr. πολυ-, poly- + ζῷον an animal.] A class of compound or ‘colonial’ aquatic (chiefly marine) invertebrate animals (sometimes reckoned as a group of Mollusca), of small size and various forms, often plant-like; popularly call...
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Victorella pavida
Kent Memoirs: On a New Polyzoon, "Victorella Pavida," from the Victoria Docks, Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, s2-10: 34-39.
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polyzoan
polyzoan, a. and n. Zool. (pɒlɪˈzəʊən) [f. Polyzoa + -an.] a. adj. Belonging to or having the character of the Polyzoa; = bryozoan a. and n. b. n. A polyzoan animal, a polyzoon; an individual polyp or zooid of a polyzoan colony.1856 P. H. Gosse Man. Marine Zool. Brit. Isles II. 5 A tiny Annelid or o...
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John Edmund Sharrock Moore
Exhibition of a specimen and microscopic preparation of a new polyzoon encrusting the shell of Paramelania.. Proc. Linn. Soc.
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rhabdopleura
rhabdopleura Zool. (ræbdəʊˈplʊərə) [mod.L., f. rhabdo- + Gr. πλευρά rib, side.] A member of the genus of protochordates so called, belonging to the class Pterobranchia and having two tentacle-bearing arms.[1869 G. J. Allman in Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. IX. 58 The remarkable polyzoon for which the genus...
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fenestella
fenestella (fɛnɪˈstɛlə) [a. L. fenestella, dim. of fenestra window.] 1. Arch. a. A small window-like niche in the wall on the south side of the altar, containing the piscina and often the credence.1797 Gentl. Mag. LXVII. ii. 649 A fenestella in the South wall of the chancel. 1839 Stonehouse Axholme ...
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cormus
‖ cormus [mod.L.: see corm.] 1. = corm, q.v. 2. Haeckel's name for the common stock of a plant or ‘colonial’ animal, bearing a number of individuals which originate by gemmation or budding; as applied to animals it is equivalent to polypidom.1878 Bell Gegenbauer's Comp. Anat. 93 Colonies (cormi) are...
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ento-
ento-, prefix (ˈɛntəʊ) (before a vowel commonly reduced to ent-), repr. Gr. ἐντός within, inside, in many compounds of mod. formation relating to anatomy and biology, as ˈentoblast [Gr. βλαστός sprout], (a) the nucleolus of a cell; (b) an inner germ-layer of an embryo; = endoblast, hypoblast 2; ˌent...
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hornwrack
hornwrack (ˈhɔːnræk) [f. horn n. + wrack, seaweed cast ashore.] A polyzoon of the genus Flustra, resembling a seaweed in appearance, and of somewhat horny consistency.1819 Pantologia, Flustra, horn-wrack. 1888 Rolleston & Jackson Anim. Life 234 Broad-leafed Hornwrack (Flustra foliacea).
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patch test
ˈpatch test Med. [f. patch n.1 + test n.1] A test for determining a patient's sensitivity to a substance, by applying to his skin a patch made of or containing it, and noting whether erythema is produced. Hence (with hyphen) as v. trans., to subject to such a test; also ˈpatch-testing vbl. n.1933 R....
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moss
▪ I. moss, n.1 (mɒs) Forms: 1, 3, 6 mos, 2, 6 mose, 4–6 mosse, 5 moos, mosh, 4– moss. [OE. mos neut., bog (also 12th c. mose moss), corresponding to MDu., MLG. mos bog, also moss, lichen, mildew (Du. mos moss), OHG., MHG. mos (mod.G. moos) bog, moss, MSw., Da. mos:—OTeut. *muso{supm}; declensional v...
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