单词 | ctenophore |
释义 | ctenophoren. Zoology. 1. An animal of the phylum Ctenophora; a comb jelly. Cf. ctenophoran n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Ctenophora > member of sea-lungs1640 ctenophore1859 ctenophoran1863 1859 Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 9 322 The type of structure, moreover, of the thread-cell in the Protozoon, the Polype-medusa, the Annelid, and the Ctenophore, was essentially different for each class. 1889 Athenæum 27 July 133/2 No figures are given of alcyonarians, ctenophores, [or of] any echinoderm save the star-fish. 1891 Amer. Naturalist 25 57 The Ctenophors represent an independent phylum of the animal kingdom, and only unite at the base with the Cnidaria. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. v. 82 In Coelentera, except in the class of comb-bearers or Ctenophores, there is no mesoderm. 1984 T. Horton Bay Country (1987) 13 They have a virtually unlimited supply of their favorite food, the gelatinous, transparent creatures called comb jellies, or Ctenophores. 2001 BBC Wildlife Sept. 24/3 Many midwater shrimps, and some squid and ctenophores, are pigmented red. ΚΠ 1869 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. 111 Eight meridional bands, or ‘ctenophores’, bearing the comb-like fringes, or characteristic organs of locomotion, traverse at definite intervals the interpolar region. 1875 T. H. Huxley in Encycl. Brit. I. 131/2 The paddle-like locomotive plates are disposed in eight longitudinal series (ctenophores) on the outer surface of the body. 1890 Cent. Dict. Paddle-row, the paddle or ctenophore of a ctenophoran. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1859 |
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