APLACOPHORAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aplacophoran mean? 

• APLACOPHORAN (noun)
  The noun APLACOPHORAN has 1 sense:

1. deep-water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle

  Familiarity information: APLACOPHORAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APLACOPHORAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deep-water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

aplacophoran; solenogaster

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

gastropod; univalve (a class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes)

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

Aplacophora; order Aplacophora; order Solenogastres; Solenogastres (an order of Amphineura)