CTENOPHORE

[cteno.phore] n [ultim. fr. Gk kten-, kteis + pherein to carry--more at bear] (ca. 1882): any of a phylum (Ctenophora) of marine animals superficially resembling jellyfishes but having biradial symmetry and swimming by means of eight meridional bands of transverse ciliated plates--called also comb jelly -- cte.noph.o.ran n or adj