Definition of Phoronidea

1. Noun. Small phylum of wormlike marine animals.

Exact synonyms: Phoronida, Phylum Phoronida
Group relationships: Animal Kingdom, Animalia, Kingdom Animalia
Member holonyms: Phoronid
Generic synonyms: Phylum

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phoronidea

Pholiota nameko
Pholiota squarrosa
Pholiota squarrosa-adiposa
Pholiota squarrosoides
Pholis
Pholis gunnellus
Pholistoma
Pholistoma auritum
Phoma
Phoney War
Phoradendron
Phoradendron flavescens
Phoradendron serotinum
Phormia regina
Phoronida
Phoronidea
Phoroptor
Phosphor
Phosphorus
Photinia
Photinia arbutifolia
Photobacterium harveyi
Photobacterium phosphoreum
Photoblepharon
Photoblepharon palpebratus
Photoshopper
Photoshoppers
Photostat
Photostat machine
Phoxinus

Literary usage of Phoronidea

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)
"phoronidea This group consists of a single genus, Phoronis (Gr. Phoronis, name of a king, Fig. 125), containing worm-like animals which live in the sand, ..."

2. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"phoronidea. ALTHOUGH investigators early drew attention to the many structural features in which the genus Phoronis ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"phoronidea, a zoological order, containing a single genus Phoronis, which ¡s known to be of practically world-wide distribution, while there arc many ..."

4. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1906)
"... MESOZOA, HEMICHORDATA, phoronidea. Verm. L-hthi/dium crassum n. sp., figg., Asuncion, drying banks of Paraguay R., ... HEMICHORDATA and phoronidea. ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"... Pterobranchia and phoronidea, each of which has been considered by some as a class, or, at least, far removed from the others; the second is universally ..."

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