Definition of Cestidae

1. Noun. Coextensive with the order Cestida; ctenophores having a greatly flattened and elongated body.

Exact synonyms: Family Cestidae
Generic synonyms: Ctenophore Family
Group relationships: Cestida, Order Cestida
Member holonyms: Cestum, Genus Cestum

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cestidae

Cervus elaphus
Cervus nipon
Cervus sika
Cervus unicolor
Ceryle
Ceryle alcyon
Cerys
Cesar Chavez
Cesar Estrada Chavez
Cesar Franck
Cesar Ritz
Cesare Borgia
Cesarian
Cestan-Chenais syndrome
Cestida
Cestidae
Cestodaria
Cestoidea
Cestrian
Cestrians
Cestrum
Cestrum diurnum
Cestrum nocturnum
Cestum
Cestum veneris
Cet mac Mágach
Ceterach
Ceterach officinarum
Cethern mac Fintain
Cethleen

Literary usage of Cestidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"The Ctenophora are transparent, pelagic, and are widely distributed. The cestidae, however, do not occur in the northern and temperate seas. ..."

2. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1900)
"Only in the much modified family of the cestidae is the ciliary action supplemented by sinuous movements of the elongated, band-like body. ..."

3. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1906)
"cestidae.—This is the only family of the order. Cestus veneris, the Venus's girdle of the Mediterranean Sea, is also found in the Atlantic Ocean, ..."

4. Evolution by Atrophy in Biology and Sociology by Jean Demoor, Jean Massart, Emile Vandervelde (1899)
"By referring to the cestidae, which are ribbon-like in shape, it will be seen that by means of compression the body sj . C, short rows of swimming ..."

5. Ocean World ...: A Description of the Sea & Its Living Inhabitants by Louis Figuier (1869)
"... form a aert of connecting link between the Seroes and the cestidae. Their bodies are smooth and regular, vertically- elongated, compressed on one side ..."

6. A Manual of Zoology by Henri Milne-Edwards (1856)
"... which resemble small balloons; the cestidae, which have the form of a long gelatinous ribbon; ..."

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