Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The small, free-swimming, ciliated aquatic larva of various invertebrates, including certain mollusks and annelids.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A larval type found in many invertebrates and exhibiting many points of resemblance to an adult trochelminth or rotifer. Also termed trochosphere.
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- noun biology The free-swimming
larva of someinvertebrates that have acirclet ofcilia
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Once a free larva called a trochophore (Porch, p469).
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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).
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Once a free swimming sperm fertilizes the cells within the egg divide until they form a free swimming, larval called a trochophore (Porch, p469).
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Once a free swimming sperm fertilizes the cells within the egg divide until they form a free swimming, larval called a trochophore (Porch, p469).
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Once a free swimming sperm fertilizes the cells within the egg divide until they form a free swimming, larval called a trochophore (Porch, p469).
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Once a free swimming sperm fertilizes the cells within the egg divide until they form a free swimming, larval called a trochophore (Porch, p469).
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Once a free swimming sperm fertilizes the cells within the egg divide until they form a free swimming, larval called a trochophore (Porch, p469).
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Once a free swimming sperm fertilizes the cells within the egg divide until they form a free swimming, larval called a trochophore (Porch, p469).
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Once a free swimming sperm fertilizes the cells within the egg divide until they form a free swimming, larval called a trochophore (Porch, p469).
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Once a free swimming sperm fertilizes the cells within the egg divide until they form a free swimming, larval called a trochophore (Porch, p469).
reesetee commented on the word trochophore
The small, free-swimming, ciliated aquatic larva of various invertebrates, including certain mollusks and annelids.
February 9, 2008
mollusque commented on the word trochophore
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).
February 9, 2008