PLANULA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: planulae   

 I. (noun) 

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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