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Webster 1913 Edition
Rhabdopleura
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Rhabˊdo-pleu′ra
,Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr.
ῥάβδοσ
a rod + [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK][GREEK] the side.] (Zool.)
A genus of marine Bryozoa in which the tubular cells have a centralchitinous axis and the tentacles are borne on a bilobed lophophore. It is the type of the order Pterobranchia, or Podostomata