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lamellipore

lamellipore noun: a thin, sheet-like extension that forms part of the skeletal walls of some bryozoan colonies.

Noun

lamellipore (plural lamellipores)

  1. A thin, sheet-like extension that forms part of the skeletal walls of some bryozoan colonies.
    • Epispires, cothumopores, and lamellipores in cornutes are respiratory structures not atypical of early echinoderms and are only superficially similar to chordate gill slits.1997 October, R[onald] L. Parsley, “The echinoderm classes Stylophora and Homoiostelea: non Calcichordata”, in The Paleontological Society Papers, volume 3, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge...

Forms of lamellipore

plurallamellipores

Questions about lamellipore

What does lamellipore mean?
Lamellipore means a thin, sheet-like extension that forms part of the skeletal walls of some bryozoan colonies.
What part of speech is lamellipore?
Lamellipore is a noun.
What is the plural of lamellipore?
The plural of lamellipore is lamellipores.

Words near lamellipore in the dictionary

  1. lamellipodia
  2. lamellipodial
  3. lamellipodin
  4. lamellipodium
  5. lamellipods
  6. lamellipore
  7. lamellipores
  8. lamellirostral
  9. lamellocyte
  10. lamellocytes
  11. lamellodisc

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