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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

pl.

[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] a wing + [GREEK] [GREEK].]

(Zool.)

An order of marine Bryozoa, having a bilobed lophophore and an axial cord. The genus

Rhabdopleura

is the type. Called also

Podostomata

. See

Pterobranchia

A taxonomic class within the phylum Hemichordata – small worm-shaped animals living in secreted tubes on the ocean floor.