corbula

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Pl. corbulæ (-lē). In Hydrosoa, as in the genus Aglaophenia of the family Plumulariidæ, a common receptacle in which groups of gonangia are inclosed. It is formed by the union of lateral processes from that region of the hydrosoma which bears the gonophores, these processes being in some respects comparable to the hydrophyllia of the Calycophoridæ. Huxley.
2. n. [capitalized] A genus of siphonate bivalve mollusks, of the family Myidæ, or type of family Corbulidæ, related to the common cob or clam.