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PLANULA (planulae)
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Irregular inflected form: planulae
Dictionary entry overview: What does planula mean?
• PLANULA (noun)
The noun PLANULA has 1 sense:
1. the flat ciliated free-swimming larva of hydrozoan coelenterates
Familiarity information: PLANULA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The flat ciliated free-swimming larva of hydrozoan coelenterates
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("planula" is a kind of...):
hydroid; hydrozoan (colonial coelenterates having the polyp phase dominant)
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