CYCLIOPHORA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cycliophora mean? 

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

1. 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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CYCLIOPHORA (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Cycliophora; phylum Cycliophora

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

phylum ((biology) the major taxonomic group of animals and plants; contains classes)

Meronyms (members of "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 ("Cycliophora" is a member of...):

animal kingdom; Animalia; kingdom Animalia (taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals)