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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The typical genus of Rhabdopleuridæ, having the tentacles confined to a pair of outgrowths of the lophophore containing each a cartilaginoid skeleton.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A genus of marine Bryozoa in which the tubular cells have a centralchitinous axis and the tentacles are borne on a bilobed lophophore. It is the type of the order Pterobranchia, or Podostomata.

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