Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous marine invertebrates of the phylum Brachiopoda, having a shell with two valves of unequal size enclosing an armlike lophophore used for feeding, and including many extinct species commonly found as fossils.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the Brachiopoda.
- Same as
brachiopodous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the Brachiopoda, or its shell.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of many
marine invertebrates , of the phylumBrachiopoda , that havebivalve dorsal andventral shells with twotentacle -bearing arms that capture food
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun marine animal with bivalve shell having a pair of arms bearing tentacles for capturing food; found worldwide
- adjective of or belonging to the phylum Brachiopoda
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A brachiopod is an ocean creature that looks a little like a clam.
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A brachiopod is an ocean creature that looks a little like a clam.
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The name of the fossil rises from some corner of his brain: brachiopod.
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The name of the fossil rises from some corner of his brain: brachiopod.
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My aunt came to Canada for a visit, and she picked up a Middle Ordovician brachiopod fossil off the trail and showed it to me.
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My favourite living fossil is the brachiopod Lingula.
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My favourite living fossil is the brachiopod Lingula.
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I can handle leaving vertebrates alone, archeological sites, etc. but when I find a nice brachiopod weathering out of the Percha Shale, the last thing I want is some federal employee telling me I must leave it there to be destroyed instead of adding it to my collection where I and my descendants could possibly appreciate.
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My aunt came to Canada for a visit, and she picked up a Middle Ordovician brachiopod fossil off the trail and showed it to me.
Museum Monday #1: St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm
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On a trip in the Grand Canyon several years ago, a friend of mine named Alan Doty an Arizona resident who is an expert on the Grand Canyon showed me numerous fossils of brachiopod remains in a rock outcrop near the top of the Canyon.
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