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trophosomes

trophosomes is the plural of trophosome.

Meaning of trophosome

Noun

trophosome (plural trophosomes)

  1. The group of nutritive zooids of a hydrozoan.
  2. The mass of chemolithoautotrophic bacteria in a pogonophoran that metabolizes sulfide.
  3. An organ found in some animals, located in the coelomic cavity, that houses symbiotic bacteria, which in turn provide nutrients to the host animal.

Questions about trophosomes

What is trophosomes the plural of?
Trophosomes is the plural of trophosome.

Words near trophosomes in the dictionary

  1. trophoplasms
  2. trophoplast
  3. trophoplasts
  4. trophosomal
  5. trophosome
  6. trophosomes
  7. trophospecies
  8. trophosperm
  9. trophosperms
  10. trophotherapy
  11. trophotrophism

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