Library / English Dictionary

EUPLECTELLA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of Hyalospongiae

Synonyms:

Euplectella; genus Euplectella

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

sponge genus (a genus of Porifera)

Meronyms (members of "Euplectella"):

Venus's flower basket (a deep-water marine sponge having a cylindrical skeleton of intricate glassy latticework; found in the waters of the East Indies and the eastern coast of Asia)

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

class Hyalospongiae; Hyalospongiae (sponges with siliceous spicules that have six rays; choanocytes are restricted to finger-shaped chambers)

Credits