pterocymba

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  1. A cymba, or cymbate flesh-spicule of a sponge, whose proræ are alate, or widened into proral and pleural pteres, whence a figure resembling an anchor results. W. J. Sollas, Encyc. Brit., XXII. 418.

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  1. New Latin, from Greek πτερόν, wing, + New Latin cymba, q. v.
 

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