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PLANULA
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
Irregular inflected form: planulae
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The flat ciliated free-swimming larva of hydrozoan coelenterates
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("planula" is a kind of...):
hydroid; hydrozoan (colonial coelenterates having the polyp phase dominant)