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physemarian, a. and n. Zool.|faɪsiːˈmɛərɪən|
[f. mod.L. Phȳsēmāria pl., f. Gr. ϕύσηµα bubble.]
a. adj. Belonging to the Physemaria, a name applied by Haeckel to a group of Metazoa; now abandoned.
b. n. One of the Physemaria.
1877Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. xii. 678 The spheroidal, free-swimming monad aggregates..are in many respects comparable to Physemarian or Poriferan embryos. Ibid. 681 That common form, when the special characters..are eliminated..would be exceedingly similar to a Physemarian. |