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pinacocyte Zool.|ˈpɪnəkəʊsaɪt|
[f. Gr. πίναξ, πινακ- tablet + -cyte.]
Each of the flat plate-like cells (constituting pavement-epithelium) forming the ectoderm and part of the endoderm in sponges.
1887Sollas in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 418/2 The ectoderm usually consists of simple pavement epithelial cells (pinnacocytes). 1900E. R. Lankester Zool. ii. Sponges 44.
Hence ˌpinacoˈcytal a.
1887Sollas in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 427/1 The pinnacocytal layer. |