Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the numerous cross-bars which connect the septa of certain actinozoan corals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of numerous calcareous processes which extend between, and unite, the adjacent septa of certain corals, especially of the fungian corals.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology One of numerous
calcareous processes which extend between, andunite , theadjacent septa of certaincorals .
Etymologies
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Diminutive from Ancient Greek fastened together.
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The chief resemblances between _Balanoglossus_ and _Amphioxus_ in respect of the gill-slits may be stated briefly as follows: -- ([alpha]) the presence of two kinds of branchial bars in all species and also of small crossbars (synapticula) in many species; ([beta]) numerous gill-slits, from forty to more than a hundred pairs; ([gamma]) the addition of new gill-slits by fresh perforation at the posterior end of the pharynx throughout life.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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