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Definition of Choanocyte
1. Noun. Any of the flagellated cells in sponges having a collar of cytoplasm around the flagellum; they maintain a flow of water through the body.
Definition of Choanocyte
1. Noun. any of the cells in sponges that contain a flagellum, and are used to control the movement of water ¹
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Definition of Choanocyte
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Choanocyte
Literary usage of Choanocyte
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"The choanocyte currents cease in dilute sea-water, at high temperatures, and in
weak solutions of ether and chloroform. There is very little, if any, ..."
2. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1900)
"Each choanocyte is in contact with its neighbours for about two-thirds of its
length, and the distal third forms a freely projecting " neck ..."
3. General Zoology by Arthur Sperry Pearse (1917)
"... 6, undifferentiated cell; c, collared flagellate cell, or choanocyte; e.
epidermis on outside of body; i, spicule within the cell that formed it. lead ..."
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