rhabdopleura

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rhabdopleura - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Rhabdopleura \Rhab`do*pleu"ra\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. "ra`bdos a rod
     + ???? the side.] (Zool.)
     A genus of marine Bryozoa in which the tubular cells have a
     centralchitinous axis and the tentacles are borne on a
     bilobed lophophore. It is the type of the order
     Pterobranchia, or Podostomata
     [1913 Webster]