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Definition of Ctenophore
1. Noun. Biradially symmetrical hermaphroditic solitary marine animals resembling jellyfishes having for locomotion eight rows of cilia arranged like teeth in a comb.
Generic synonyms: Invertebrate
Group relationships: Ctenophora, Phylum Ctenophora
Terms within: Comb-plate, Ctene, Comb
Specialized synonyms: Beroe, Platyctenean, Sea Gooseberry, Cestum Veneris, Venus's Girdle
Definition of Ctenophore
1. n. One of the Ctenophora.
Definition of Ctenophore
1. Noun. Any of various marine animals of the phylum Ctenophora, having lucent, mucilaginous bodies bearing eight rows of comblike cilia used for swimming. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ctenophore
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ctenophore
Literary usage of Ctenophore
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin and Development of the Nervous System: From a Physiological Viewpoint by Charles Manning Child (1921)
"... organs behave in many respects much like the ctenophore plate row and probably
further physiological analysis will show similar conditions in many other ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"egg and elsewhere; the divergent results in this case, he thinks, may be explained
by the fixity of the protoplasmic forms in the ctenophore egg, ..."
3. Ctenophores of the Atlantic Coast of North America by Alfred Goldsborough Mayer (1912)
"This is the most rigid ctenophore known. The animal may be removed from the water by
... I first found this ctenophore in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, ..."
4. The Dynamics of Living Matter by Jacques Loeb (1906)
"Fischel found that if the egg of a ctenophore is cut into several pieces, ...
The body of a ctenophore consists mainly of a jelly, or gel, and, ..."
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