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Definition of Planulae
1. planula [n] - See also: planula
Lexicographical Neighbors of Planulae
Literary usage of Planulae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Aquarian Naturalist: A Manual for the Sea-side by Thomas Rymer Jones (1858)
"The progeny of the Medusae while yet planulae should be transferred to a flat
vessel some inches in diameter, filled to any height with water. ..."
2. The coral Siderastrea radians and its postlarval development by J[ames] E[dwin] Duerden (1904)
"One, two, or three planulae were plainly visible through the nearly transparent
tissues ... At times the planulae would glide into the lower regions of the ..."
3. Circulars by Johns Hopkins University, Stanford University (1900)
"The young are set free from the parent as ciliated planulae, ... The planulae
swim about actively on the surface for a day or two, their motion being both ..."
4. Syracuse University Publications: Contributions from the Zoological Laboratory (1905)
"Sections of such planulae show that the bifurcation involves both ectoderm and
ento- derm and gastric cavity as well. The fixation of the planula and ..."
5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1900)
"... as McCrady had suggested ('57), the ova might have developed within the bell
of the medusa; and emerged as planulae, for, in more than one collection ..."
6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1853)
"... Polypes are in their young state either "planulae" or solitary naked polypoid
larvae ... That both " planulae " and ..."
7. The Aquarian Naturalist: A Manual for the Sea-side by Thomas Rymer Jones (1858)
"The progeny of the Medusae while yet planulae should be transferred to a flat
vessel some inches in diameter, filled to any height with water. ..."
8. The coral Siderastrea radians and its postlarval development by J[ames] E[dwin] Duerden (1904)
"One, two, or three planulae were plainly visible through the nearly transparent
tissues ... At times the planulae would glide into the lower regions of the ..."
9. Circulars by Johns Hopkins University, Stanford University (1900)
"The young are set free from the parent as ciliated planulae, ... The planulae
swim about actively on the surface for a day or two, their motion being both ..."
10. Syracuse University Publications: Contributions from the Zoological Laboratory (1905)
"Sections of such planulae show that the bifurcation involves both ectoderm and
ento- derm and gastric cavity as well. The fixation of the planula and ..."
11. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1900)
"... as McCrady had suggested ('57), the ova might have developed within the bell
of the medusa; and emerged as planulae, for, in more than one collection ..."
12. Report of the Annual Meeting (1853)
"... Polypes are in their young state either "planulae" or solitary naked polypoid
larvae ... That both " planulae " and ..."
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