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- noun Plural form of
phyllopod .
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Examples
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They feed on detritus or on plankton by drawing water into the carapace and removing the food particles with their phyllopods.
Crustacea 2008
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Allusion is here made to certain small Crustacea -- certain phyllopods and ostracods -- which have the hard outer coat of their thorax so modified as to look wonderfully like a bivalve shell, although its {80} nature and composition are quite different.
On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart
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They feed on detritus or on plankton by drawing water into the carapace and removing the food particles with their phyllopods.
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