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brachiopod

[ brey-kee-uh-pod, brak-ee- ]

noun

  1. any mollusklike, marine animal of the phylum Brachiopoda, having a dorsal and ventral shell; a lamp shell.


adjective

  1. Also bra·chi·op·o·dous [] belonging or pertaining to the Brachiopoda.

brachiopod

/ ˈbreɪkɪəˌpɒd; ˈbræk- /

noun

  1. any marine invertebrate animal of the phylum Brachiopoda , having a ciliated feeding organ (lophophore) and a shell consisting of dorsal and ventral valves Also calledlamp shell See also bryozoan
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


brachiopod

/ brākē-ə-pŏd′ /

  1. Any of various marine invertebrate animals of the phylum Brachiopoda that resemble clams. Brachiopods have paired upper and lower shells attached to a usually stationary stalk and hollow tentacles covered with cilia that sweep food particles into the mouth. Brachiopods are probably related to the phoronids and bryozoans, and were extremely abundant throughout the Paleozoic Era.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of brachiopod1

From the New Latin word Brachiopoda, dating back to 1830–40. See brachio-, -pod
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Word History and Origins

Origin of brachiopod1

C19: from New Latin Brachiopoda ; see brachium , -pod
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Example Sentences

Based on a genetic analysis, Wufengella is probably the common ancestor that connects brachiopods, bryozoans and phoronid worms, paleontologist Jakob Vinther and colleagues report September 27 in Current Biology.

Tubes stuck to the outer shells of hundreds of fossilized brachiopods discovered in an outcropping in China may have housed the earliest-known parasites.

These tubes appeared only on brachiopods — never alone or on other animals.

This suggests that the tube-dwelling creature needed the brachiopod to survive.

The process is apparently the same in a nebula or a brachiopod, although much more intricate in the latter.

Spirifer, spir′i-fėr, n. a brachiopod of the Carboniferous system.

A genus unfigured and imperfectly described as differing in some respects from Terebratula and other Brachiopod.

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