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    CYCLIOPHORA

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Tiny marine organisms each the size of a period found in great numbers on lobsters' lips; identified tentatively in 1995 as a new phylum or as possible link between Entoprocta and Ectoproctaplay

    Synonyms:

    Cycliophora; phylum Cycliophora

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("Cycliophora" is a kind of...):

    phylum ((biology) the major taxonomic group of animals and plants; contains classes)

    Meronyms (members of "Cycliophora"):

    Symbion pandora (only known species of Cycliophora; lives symbiotically attached to a lobster's lip by an adhesive disk and feeding by means of a hairy mouth ring; its complex life cycle includes asexual and sexual phases)

    Holonyms ("Cycliophora" is a member of...):

    animal kingdom; Animalia; kingdom Animalia (taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals)

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