Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A larval mollusk that is free-swimming and has a velum.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which bears a velum; in Mollusca, specifically, the veligerous stage of the embryo, or the embryo in that stage, when it has a ciliated swimmingmembrane or velum (see
velum , 3, and typembryo).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any larval gastropod or bivalve mollusk in the stage when it is furnished with one or two ciliated membranes for swimming.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology The
planktonic larva of many kinds ofmarine andfreshwater gastropod molluscs , as well as mostbivalve molluscs.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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What was discovered in the Wahpeton area is known as a veliger - a microscopic free-swimming zebra mussel that can float for weeks before eventually attaching to something and growing into a dime-size mussel.
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The trochophore matures into a veliger, which is the second stage of its development.
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The trochophore matures into a veliger, which is the second stage of its development.
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The trochophore matures into a veliger, which is the second stage of its development.
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The trochophore matures into a veliger, which is the second stage of its development.
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The trochophore matures into a veliger, which is the second stage of its development.
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They also go through a second larval stage called the veliger stage, which is also a free-swimming stage.
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The trochophore matures into a veliger, which is the second stage of its development.
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They also go through a second larval stage called the veliger stage, which is also a free-swimming stage.
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The trochophore matures into a veliger, which is the second stage of its development.
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