Definition of Cydippida

1. Noun. Ctenophores having two long pinnate tentacles.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Cydippida

Cyclopes
Cyclopes didactylus
Cyclophorus
Cyclophorus lingua
Cyclophyllidae
Cyclopteridae
Cyclopterus
Cyclopterus lumpus
Cyclosorus
Cyclospora
Cyclosporeae
Cyclostomata
Cycnoches
Cyd
Cydippea
Cydippida
Cydippidea
Cydonia
Cydonia oblonga
Cygnus
Cygnus atratus
Cygnus buccinator
Cygnus columbianus
Cygnus columbianus bewickii
Cygnus columbianus columbianus
Cygnus cygnus
Cygnus olor
Cygwin
Cyllenean
Cyllenian

Literary usage of Cydippida

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"cydippida 6, No tentacles in adult animal; oral lobes present 2. ... cydippida. Body spherical or cylindrical or compressed in the plane transverse to the ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"... derived from the cydippida, that has abandoned a pelagic life and taken up a littoral habit with a corresponding change in body form and consistency, ..."

3. Ctenophores of the Atlantic Coast of North America by Alfred Goldsborough Mayer (1912)
"cydippida; with an egg-shaped body with but little lateral compression, the tentacular diameter being only slightly wider than the sagittal. ..."

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