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lophophore
[ lof-uh-fawr, -fohr, loh-fuh- ]
noun
- the ring of ciliated tentacles encircling the mouth of a bryozoan or phoronid.
- a similar organ in a brachiopod, composed of two ciliated, spirally coiled tentacles.
lophophore
/ 藞濒蓹蕣蹿蓹藢蹿蓴藧 /
noun
- a circle or horseshoe of ciliated tentacles surrounding the mouth and used for the capture of food in minute sessile animals of the phyla Brachiopoda, Phoronida, and Ectoprocta
lophophore
- A horseshoe-shaped ciliated organ located near the mouth of brachiopods, bryozoans, and phoronids that is used to gather food.
Derived Forms
- 藢濒辞辫丑辞藞辫丑辞谤补迟别, adjective
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 濒辞路辫丑辞辫丑路辞路谤补濒 [l, uh, -, fof, -er-, uh, l], adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of lophophore1
Example Sentences
Collar A longitudinally pleated circular membrane capable of being thrust out of the orifice in advance of the lophophore and of closing together inside the zo艙cium above the tentacles when they are retracted.
Retractor muscles The muscles by the action of which the lophophore can be pulled back into the zo艙cium.
I have seen a worm of the genus Ch锟絫ogaster devouring the tentacles of a polypide that had been accidentally injured, but as a rule the movements of the lophophore are too quick to permit attacks of the kind, and I know of no active enemy of the genus.
The lophophore bears 20 to 30 tentacles, which are long and slender; the velum at their base extends up each tentacle in the form of a sharply pointed projection, but these projections do not extend for more than one-fifth of the length of the tentacles.
Care must be taken that the process of paralyzing the polypides is not unduly prolonged, and it is always as well to preserve duplicate specimens in spirit or formalin with the lophophore retracted.
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