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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Like or likened to a horseshoe in shape; hippocrepiform: specifically applied to certain ectoproctous Polyzoa which usually have the lophophore prolonged into two lobes so as to be horseshoe-shaped, as well as to such a lophophore itself.
  • noun A polyzoan having these characteristics. See Phylactolæmata.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) One of an order of fresh-water Bryozoa, in which the tentacles are on a lophophore, shaped like a horseshoe. See phylactolæma.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One of an order of freshwater bryozoa, in which the tentacles are on a lophophore, shaped like a horseshoe.

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