PLEUROBRACHIA

Meaning of PLEUROBRACHIA in English

noun a genus of ctenophores having an ovate body and two long plumose tentacles.

Webster English vocab. Английский словарь Webster. 2012

PLEUROBRACHIA — ˌplu̇rəˈbrākēə noun Usage: capitalized Etymology: New Latin, from pleur- + brachia : a genus (the type of the family Pleurobrachiidae) …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
PLEUROBRACHIA — (n.) A genus of ctenophores having an ovate body and two long plumose tentacles.
Английский словарь Webster
PLEUROBRACHIA — ( n. ) A genus of ctenophores having an ovate body and two long plumose tentacles.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
PLEUROBRACHIA PILEUS — sea walnut
Animal names in Latin and English vocab
SEA GOOSEBERRY — noun : a ctenophore of Pleurobrachia or a related genus : a typical ctenophore
Webster's New International English Dictionary
CYDIPPE — sīˈdipē Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, a mythological girl tricked into marriage by a suitor, from Greek Kydippe synonym of …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SEA GOOSEBERRY — a comb jelly, esp. of the genus Pleurobrachia.
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SEA GOOSEBERRY — ■ noun a common comb jelly with a spherical body bearing two long retractile branching tentacles. [ Pleurobrachia pileus .]
Concise Oxford English vocab
SEA GOOSEBERRY — either of two cosmopolitan genera of invertebrate marine animals in the phylum Ctenophora: the Hormiphora and the Pleurobrachia. The genera, …
Britannica English vocabulary
CTENOPHORE — byname Comb Jelly, any of the numerous marine invertebrates constituting the phylum Ctenophora. The phylum derives its name (from the …
Britannica English vocabulary

Webster English vocab

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