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PLATYCTENEAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does platyctenean mean?
• PLATYCTENEAN (noun)
The noun PLATYCTENEAN has 1 sense:
1. ctenophore have long tentacles and flattened body
Familiarity information: PLATYCTENEAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ctenophore have long tentacles and flattened body
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("platyctenean" is a kind of...):
comb jelly; ctenophore (biradially symmetrical hermaphroditic solitary marine animals resembling jellyfishes having for locomotion eight rows of cilia arranged like teeth in a comb)
Holonyms ("platyctenean" is a member of...):
order Platyctenea; Platyctenea (an order of Tentaculata)
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