Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The small, free-swimming, ciliated aquatic larva of various invertebrates, including certain mollusks and annelids.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A larval type found in many invertebrates and exhibiting many points of resemblance to an adult trochelminth or rotifer. Also termed trochosphere.
Wiktionary
- n. biology The free-swimming larva of some invertebrates that have a circlet of cilia
Etymologies
- Greek trokhos, wheel (from trekhein, to run) + -phore. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Once a free swimming sperm fertilizes the cells within the egg divide until they form a free swimming, larval called a trochophore (Porch, p469).”
“Once a free larva called a trochophore (Porch, p469).”
“Once a free-swimming sperm fertilizes an egg, the cells within the egg begin to divide until they form a free-swimming larva called a trochophore (Porch, p469).”
“Once a free swimming sperm fertilizes the egg the cells within the egg divide until they form a free swimming larval called a trochophore (Porch, p469).”
“Solenogastres develop via a trochophore-like lecitotrophic larva with a preoral apical cap that at least partly represents an enlarged prototrochal area.”
“Damen P (1997) Cell-lineage and clonal-contribution map of the trochophore larva of”
“The trochophore matures into a veliger, which is the second stage of its development.”
“The trochophore shows no resemblance to its parents for they lack a shell and are more round than flat.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘trochophore’.
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slimy creepy crawly
little maggots, insectoids
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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Are we there yet?
These have some growing up to do.
colt, foal, kitten, cub, pup, heifer, larva, imago, veliger, trochophore, grub, maggot and 178 more...
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Mollusks
"Snaily, clammy, squidy" has evolved into a vehicle for linking to mollusk quotations, so I've started this list for vernacular names of mollusks.
clam, snail, slug, squid, octopus, nautilus, conch, chank, whelk, mussel, oyster, scallop and 221 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...
Tweets
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mollusque If you get around to making a -ger list to complement your bear, -fer and -phore lists, don't forget veliger (another kind of molluscan larva). Feb 9, 2008
reesetee The small, free-swimming, ciliated aquatic larva of various invertebrates, including certain mollusks and annelids. Feb 8, 2008