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Definition of Genus pleurobrachia

1. Noun. Sea gooseberries.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Pleurobrachia

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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