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Definition of Phoronid
1. Noun. Hermaphrodite wormlike animal living in mud of the sea bottom.
Definition of Phoronid
1. Noun. (biology) Any hermaphroditic wormlike marine animals of the phylum ''Phoronida''; the horseshoe worms ¹
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Definition of Phoronid
1. a wormlike marine animal [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phoronid
Literary usage of Phoronid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin of Tyranny by Percy Neville Ure (1922)
"... is described by him as "im Inneren liegend," Atb. Mitt. xvn. PP. 333-4. 4 Schol.
Ap. Rhod. Argon. 1. 1129, quoting the phoronid, ..."
2. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"We must here bear in mind that in the phoronid larva also it is chiefly the organs
of the cephalic region that are thrown off and regenerated during ..."