tornaria
noun
the ciliated, free-swimming larva of certain hemichordates.
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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All the larvae, all the little nauplii and tornarias, all the microscopic things, the jelly-fish.
From The Invisible Man by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells