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plocozoan

plocozoan is the misspelling 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 plocozoan

What is plocozoan the misspelling of?
Plocozoan is the misspelling of placozoan.

Words near plocozoan in the dictionary

  1. plocin
  2. plocinine
  3. Plockton
  4. plocoid
  5. plocoside
  6. plocozoan
  7. plod
  8. Plodarisch
  9. plodded
  10. plodder
  11. plodders

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