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Webster 1913 Edition
Phylactolaemata
{ ‖
Phy-lacˊto-læ′ma
, ‖Phy-lacˊto-læ′ma-ta
, }Noun.
pl.
[NL., fr. Gr.
φυλάσσειν
to guard + λαιμόσ
the gullet.] (Zool.)
An order of fresh-water Bryozoa in which the tentacles are arranged on a horseshoe-shaped lophophore, and the mouth is covered by an epistome. Called also , and
Lophopoda
hippocrepians
.