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bipinnaria

American  
[bahy-pi-nair-ee-uh] / ˌbaɪ pɪˈnɛər i ə /

noun

PLURAL

bipinnariae, bipinnarias

  1. the free-swimming, bilaterally symmetrical larva of certain starfishes.

Etymology

Origin of bipinnaria

From New Latin; bi- 1, pinna, -aria

Example Sentences

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Larva of another Bipinnaria, showing the commencement of the Starfish.—g, canal of the ciliated sac; i, rudiments of tentacles; d, ciliated band.

From Project Gutenberg

The bipinnaria larva of an echinoderm, the trochosphere larva of an annelid, the blastodermic vesicle of a mammal are all as highly specialized as their respective adults, but the specialization is for a different purpose, and of a different kind to that which characterizes the adult.

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