Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various marine animals of the phylum Ctenophora, having transparent, gelatinous bodies bearing eight rows of comblike cilia used for swimming. Also called comb jelly.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of the eight fringed or ciliated comb-bearing locomotive organs peculiar to the Ctenophora.
- n. A member of the class Ctenophora; a ctenophoran.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of various marine animals of the phylum Ctenophora, having lucent, mucilaginous bodies bearing eight rows of comblike cilia used for swimming.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) One of the Ctenophora.
WordNet 3.0
- n. biradially symmetrical hermaphroditic solitary marine animals resembling jellyfishes having for locomotion eight rows of cilia arranged like teeth in a comb
Etymologies
- From New Latin Ctenophora, phylum name : Greek kteis, kten-, comb + New Latin -phora, from neuter pl. of Greek -phoros, -phore. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This ctenophore seems to be exhibiting bioluminescence, but what the “lights” actually represent is reflection or refraction of the photoflood lights from rhythmically beating cilia.”
“Given the likelihood that the ctenophore lineage is the deepest branch among metazoans, let's have a closer look at the toolkit contained by these creatures to determine if the basic theme of front-loading evolution continues to hold up.”
“A first striking finding was the high number of SOX gene sequences recovered from both the cnidarian and the ctenophore representatives (10 and 13 from C. hemisphaerica and P. pileus, respectively).”
“A strange ctenophore, related to comb jellies (aka "sea gooseberries").”
“The Atlantic ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi is considered one of most harmful aquatic invasive species in Europe.”
“An example of instability caused by a change in biodiversity is that of the introduction of the invasive, carnivorous ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi (a jellyfish-like animal) in the Black Sea, which caused the rapid loss of 26 major fisheries species and has been implicated (along with other factors) in the continued growth of the oxygen-deprived “dead” zone.”
Ecosystems and Human Well-being~ Biodiversity Synthesis~ Summary for Decision-makers
“Clearly more than a colony, a ctenophore might best be described as a society of highly organized and interdependent cells.”
“Invoking a magical dude in the sky - whether that magic dude is Zeus, Odin, YHWH, FSM, the invisible pink unicorn, or even a hyperintelligent giant ctenophore may it bless us with its divine cilia that disappears whenever it is looked at - is certainly a paradigm shift.”
“Primary responsibilities are the expansion, organization, and maintenance of cloning libraries derived from cnidarian, ctenophore, crustacean, fish and avian model organisms.”
“Martindale MQ (2008) Developmental expression of homeobox genes in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ctenophore’.
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• De rerum natura
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Interesting words in nature and natural science (in any language!).
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Mirrored Vowels
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• The word must have an even number of vowels.
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250 Further Spelling Words
Another compilation of spelling words suitable for intermediate to advanced spellers.
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Things that might glow in the dark
glowworm, lightning bug, firefly, Vibrio fischeri, radium dial, Hawaiian bobtail ..., railroad worm, foxfire, distant cities, Cherenkov radiation, Wint-O-Green Life..., glow sticks and 50 more...
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Alaric's Words
chelation, bradykinetic, twelfth, dank, kulak, oneiric, cathexis, yonder, quern, lissome, naiad, krakatoan and 124 more...
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Critters
cockle, cicada, appaloosa, brachiopod, bivalve, aye-aye, cygnet, alewife, chamois, ermine, drake, dugong and 381 more...
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Carry Me Home Again
Another kind of bear list, in conjunction with Carry Me Home: words deriving from the Greek pherein, ("to carry") or phoros, ("a carrying").
metaphor, euphoria, diaphoresis, anaphora, amphora, periphery, pheromone, telpher, tocopherol, chromatophore, gonophore, phoresy and 45 more...
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Prolagus Kteis + pherein = comb carriers. Yes, nice name. Thanks John! Mar 11, 2008