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brachiophore

brachiophore noun: the supporting plate for the tentacle-bearing arms on a brachiopod.

Noun

brachiophore (plural brachiophores)

  1. The supporting plate for the tentacle-bearing arms on a brachiopod.
    • The brachiophore or brachial process is a simple, somewhat flat blade located at the notothyrial margin and underlying the notothyrial edge of the interarea.1938, Edward Oscar Ulrich, Gustav Arthur Cooper, Ozarkian and Canadian Brachiopoda, →ISBN, page 73
    • The brachiophore processes may be negligible in the older stocks but were very well developed in some younger forms like Camerella1953, Raymond Cecil Moore, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology - Volume 1, page H-98

Forms of brachiophore

pluralbrachiophores

Origin of brachiophore

From brachio- + -phore.

Questions about brachiophore

What does brachiophore mean?
Brachiophore means the supporting plate for the tentacle-bearing arms on a brachiopod.
What part of speech is brachiophore?
Brachiophore is a noun.
What is the plural of brachiophore?
The plural of brachiophore is brachiophores.

Words near brachiophore in the dictionary

  1. brachionichthyids
  2. brachionid
  3. brachionids
  4. brachiopatagia
  5. brachiopatagium
  6. brachiophore
  7. brachiophores
  8. brachioplasties
  9. brachioplasty
  10. brachiopod
  11. brachiopodist

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