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placozoans

placozoans is the plural of placozoan.

Meaning of placozoan

Noun

placozoan (plural placozoans)

  1. Any of a group of balloon-shaped marine organisms, of the phylum Placozoa, considered to be the simplest living animals.
    • Similarly, at Madang, Papua New Guinea, a small rhabdocoel flatworm crawling on a slide among placozoans was observed contacting a placozoan, recoiling vigorously, and changing its direction of movement only to encounter another placozoan and repeat this behavior several times.2010, Vicki Buchsbaum Pearse, Oliver Voigt, 12: Field Biology of Placozoans (Trichoplax), Rob Desalle, Bernd Schierwater (editors), Key Transitions in Animal Evolution, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press)...
    Synonyms:
    placozoon

Questions about placozoans

What is placozoans the plural of?
Placozoans is the plural of placozoan.

Words near placozoans in the dictionary

  1. placoidians
  2. placoids
  3. placophobia
  4. placozoa
  5. placozoan
  6. placozoans
  7. placozoon
  8. placque
  9. plactic
  10. placula
  11. placulae

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