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lophophore|ˈləʊfəfɔə(r)|
[f. Gr. λόϕο-ς crest + -ϕόρ-ος bearing. (In sense 2, ad. mod.L. Lophophorus.)]
1. Zool. In Polyzoa, the oral disc at the free end of the polypide, bearing the tentacles.
1850Allman in Brit. Assoc. Rept. (1851) 307 The sort of disc or stage which surrounds the mouth and bears the tentacula, I have called Lophophore. 1855Eng. Cycl., Nat. Hist. III. 861/1. 1885 A. S. Pennington Brit. Zoophytes 19.
2. A bird with crested crown and brilliant plumage, belonging to the genus Lophophorus of the family Phasianidæ. [Cf. F. lophophore.]
1883Fortn. Rev. 1 Sept. 348 One of her dresses..made up principally of the feathers of the bright-plumaged lophophore. 1884Western Daily Press 29 May 3/7 A butterfly, made of the feathers of the lophophore.
Hence loˈphophoral a., of or pertaining to a lophophore (sense 1).
1890in Century Dict.; and in other recent Dicts. |