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PHYLUM 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 Ectoprocta
Synonyms:
Cycliophora; phylum Cycliophora
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("phylum Cycliophora" is a kind of...):
phylum ((biology) the major taxonomic group of animals and plants; contains classes)
Meronyms (members of "phylum 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 ("phylum Cycliophora" is a member of...):
animal kingdom; Animalia; kingdom Animalia (taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals)
