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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 thetentacles are on alophophore , shaped like ahorseshoe .
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