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acoels

acoels is the plural of acoel.

Meaning of acoel

Noun

acoel (plural acoels)

  1. Any of the order Acoela of xenacoelomorphs that resemble flatworms and were originally classified as such.
  2. (obsolete) A member of the order Acoela of marine flatworms, which lack a digestive cavity with definite walls.
    • Acoels have no brain or ganglia but a network of nerves beneath the skin that is slightly more concentrated towards the front end.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 89

Questions about acoels

What is acoels the plural of?
Acoels is the plural of acoel.

Words near acoels in the dictionary

  1. acoelomic
  2. acoelomorph
  3. acoelomorphs
  4. acoelomous
  5. acoelous
  6. acoels
  7. Acoemetae
  8. Acoemeti
  9. acoemetic
  10. acoenesthesia
  11. Acoetes

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