Definition of Genus Pleurobrachia

1. Noun. Sea gooseberries.

Exact synonyms: Pleurobrachia
Generic synonyms: Ctenophore Genus
Group relationships: Ctenophora, Phylum Ctenophora
Member holonyms: Sea Gooseberry

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Pleurobrachia

genus Platylobium
genus Platymiscium
genus Platypoecilus
genus Platystemon
genus Plautus
genus Plecotus
genus Plectania
genus Plectorrhiza
genus Plectranthus
genus Plectrophenax
genus Pleione
genus Pleiospilos
genus Plesianthropus
genus Plesiosaurus
genus Plethodon
genus Pleurobrachia (current term)
genus Pleuronectes
genus Pleurosorus
genus Pleurothallis
genus Pleurotus
genus Plicatoperipatus
genus Ploceus
genus Plumbago
genus Plumeria
genus Pluteus
genus Pluvialis
genus Pluvianus
genus Poa
genus Podalyria
genus Podargus

Literary usage of Genus Pleurobrachia

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

1. Memoirs by American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Southern California Academy of Sciences, New York Academy of Sciences (1849)
"... we find a very close resemblance in their arrangement to what has already been noticed in the genus Pleurobrachia ; the chief difference between the two ..."

2. Ctenophores of the Atlantic Coast of North America by Alfred Goldsborough Mayer (1912)
"528), from Behring Sea. Bigelow finds that Mertensia ovum from the coast of Labrador feeds upon the sculpin. Genus PLEUROBRACHIA Fleming, 1822. ..."

3. Natural History: A Manual of Zoology for Schools, Colleges, and the General by Sanborn Tenney (1872)
"The genus Pleurobrachia has the body nearly spherical or slightly elongated and compressed, the locomotive appendages extending from near the margin of the ..."

4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1836)
"The Beroe has been examined by Mr. R. Patterson of Belfast, who finds it to be a new species of the genus Pleurobrachia of Fleming. ..."

5. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1833)
"It constitutes the genus Pleurobrachia of Dr. Fle- 1. On the M'horr antelope; by ET Bennett, Esq. FLS Sec. ZS The external characters of the animal are ..."

6. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1836)
"The Beroe has been examined by Mr. R. Patterson of Belfast, who finds it to be a new species of the genus Pleurobrachia of Fleming. ..."

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