| rhabdopleura | <zoology> 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 Origin: NL, fr. Gr. "rabdos a rod + the side. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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