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Definition of Subumbrella
1. n. The integument of the under surface of the bell, or disk-shaped body, of a jellyfish.
Definition of Subumbrella
1. Noun. (zoology) The integument of the undersurface of the bell, or disk-shaped body, of a jellyfish. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Subumbrella
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subumbrella
Literary usage of Subumbrella
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medusae of the World by Alfred Goldsborough Mayer (1910)
"Saccules may, however, arise from the subumbrella floor of the stomach. Soi. ...
Without subumbrella saccules. Gonad is a simple annulus in ectoderm of ..."
2. Structure and polarity of the electric motor nerve-cell in torpedoes by Ulric Dahlgren (1915)
"It has 48 wart-like protuberances upon the subumbrella arranged in 2 rows ...
8 of the subumbrella sacs in the variety aquila alternate with the gonads and ..."
3. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"216, S) and probably respiratory in function, are present in the subumbrella
directly beneath the four gonads. Beside each gonad are usually a number of ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"A medusa has a layer of muscles, more or less strongly developed, running in a
circular direction on the surface of the subumbrella, the contractions of ..."
5. Report on the Medusae Collected by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer by Jesse Walter Fewkes (1886)
"The subumbrella is more complicated in its structure than the ... belong to the
appendages of the subumbrella and their homologues, the sense-clubs, ..."
6. Text-book of Comparative Anatomy by Arnold Lang, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1891)
"... muscle fibres is developed in the subumbrella and in the velum. ... or that
portion of the subumbrella which borders on the oral peduncle, ..."
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