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EUPLECTELLA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Euplectella mean?
• EUPLECTELLA (noun)
The noun EUPLECTELLA has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: EUPLECTELLA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A genus of Hyalospongiae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Euplectella; genus Euplectella
Hypernyms ("Euplectella" is a kind of...):
sponge genus (a genus of Porifera)
Meronyms (members of "Euplectella"):
Venus's flower basket (a deep-water marine sponge having a cylindrical skeleton of intricate glassy latticework; found in the waters of the East Indies and the eastern coast of Asia)
Holonyms ("Euplectella" is a member of...):
class Hyalospongiae; Hyalospongiae (sponges with siliceous spicules that have six rays; choanocytes are restricted to finger-shaped chambers)
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