Definition of Porifera in English:
Porifera
plural noun pəˈrɪf(ə)rəpəˈrifərə
Zoology A phylum of aquatic invertebrate animals that comprises the sponges.
Example sentencesExamples
- Of particular interest in this regard are animals in the early diverging non-bilaterian phyla Porifera, Placozoa, Cnidaria, and Ctenophora.
- This pattern is typical of most Porifera, Cnidaria, Bryozoa with coronate larvae, colonial Ascidiacea and many polychaetes.
- Results to be discussed below have now extended the occurrence of apoptosis and homologs of caspases and bcl - 2 proteins to the most basal metazoan phyla: Porifera and Cnidaria.
- By this usage, the basal metazoans comprise just four phyla (Placozoa, Porifera, Cnidaria, and Ctenophora) and the large clade Bilateria.
- In contrast to the striking conservation of caspases and bcl - 2 proteins in all animal phyla from Porifera and Cnidaria to mammals, these features of apoptosis are not present in yeast or plants.
- These allorecognition responses have been recognized for more than a century and have been unequivocally observed in the colonial basal metazoan phyla Porifera and Cnidaria.
Origin
Modern Latin (plural), from Latin porus 'pore' + -fer 'bearing'.