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- proper noun A taxonomic
phylum within thesuperphylum Protostomia — the wheel wearers.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun tiny marine organisms each the size of a period found in great numbers on lobsters' lips; identified tentatively in 1995 as a new phylum or as possible link between Entoprocta and Ectoprocta
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Cycliophora, a single species discovered in 1994 that lives on the bristles surrounding the mouth of the Norway lobster
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