单词 | ctenophoran |
释义 | ctenophorann.adj. Zoology. A. n. An animal of the phylum Ctenophora; a ctenophore, a comb jelly. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Ctenophora > member of sea-lungs1640 ctenophore1859 ctenophoran1863 1863 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 85 348 The young of another Ctenophoran. 1890 Cent. Dict. at Polypomedusæ The polypomedusans are simply the cœlenterates divested of the ctenophorans. 1932 Florida Entomologist 15 67 I..have noted jelly fish and ctenophorans in large numbers. 1964 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 33 529 All cnidarians and ctenophorans are carnivorous. 1998 L. Margulis & K. V. Schwartz Five Kingdoms (ed. 3) iii. 224/1 Paddlelike comb plates (ctenes) unique to ctenophorans sweep these translucent, biradially symmetrical invertebrates through the sea. B. adj. Of or relating to the phylum Ctenophora. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [adjective] > of or belonging to class Ctenophora ctenophoral1861 ctenophoric1883 ctenophoran1888 1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 578 Much stress has been lately laid on the Ctenophoran characters of certain Polyclad Turbellaria. 1920 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 209 367 The Turbellaria, however, are nearer to the primitive Zoantharian than to the Ctenophoran type. 1974 Science 29 Nov. 821/2 The information..provides the key to several long-standing riddles of ctenophoran reproduction. 1998 L. Margulis & K. V. Schwartz Five Kingdoms (ed. 3) iii. 224/1 Ctenophoran bodies are flexible and mobile, the consistency of soft jelly in a membrane bag. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1863 |
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