APLACOPHORA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Aplacophora mean? 

• APLACOPHORA (noun)
  The noun APLACOPHORA has 1 sense:

1. an order of Amphineura

  Familiarity information: APLACOPHORA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APLACOPHORA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An order of Amphineura

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Aplacophora; order Aplacophora; order Solenogastres; Solenogastres

Hypernyms ("Aplacophora" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Aplacophora"):

aplacophoran; solenogaster (deep-water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle)

Holonyms ("Aplacophora" is a member of...):

Amphineura; subclass Amphineura (a class of Gastropoda)