Definition of Ctenophoran

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ctenophoran

csardas
csardases
cswk
ctene
ctenes
ctenidia
ctenidium
cteniform
ctenocyst
ctenocysts
ctenoid
ctenoidean
ctenoideans
ctenophile
ctenophiles
ctenophoran (current term)
ctenophorans
ctenophore
ctenophore family
ctenophore genus
ctenophores
cthonic
ctor
ctr.
cu ft
cu in
cuadrilla
cuadrillas
cualstibite
cuatro

Literary usage of Ctenophoran

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

1. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1900)
"Thus the general surface of the ctenophoran body has been ... with the radial canals ; the ctenophoran tentacles with the marginal tentacles of the Medusa. ..."

2. A Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals by Thomas Henry Huxley (1888)
"Nevertheless, close observation shows that, as is also the case in the Actinia or ctenophoran, this radial symmetry is never perfect, and that the body is ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1891)
"... and of all higher forms, л jelly-fish or ctenophoran, which in place of swimming freely has taken to crawling on the sea bottom. ..."

4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.) (1908)
"The marginal bands at first call to mind those of a ctenophoran, and the main central and aboral canals in like manner suggest the ..."

5. Text-book of Comparative Anatomy by Arnold Lang, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1891)
"... or a- young ctenophoran larva. The mesoderm cells extend more and more between the endoderm and the ectoderm ; the sensory organs first appear in the ..."

6. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"Stress has been laid on the absence of tentacles as showing an un- likeness to other Coelenterates: but tentacles are absent in the ctenophoran ..."

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