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Definition of Choanocytes
1. choanocyte [n] - See also: choanocyte
Lexicographical Neighbors of Choanocytes
Literary usage of Choanocytes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1906)
"The choanocytes have now a task more equal to their strength, and, further, there
is now a very great inequality between the total sectional areas of the ..."
2. A Student's Text-book of Zoology by Adam Sedgwick, Joseph Jackson Lister, Arthur Everett Shipley (1898)
"But although the choanocytes may have this ingestive capacity, their main function
is probably to cause currents through the canal system. ..."
3. Zoology: An Elementary Text-book by Arthur Everett Shipley, Ernest William MacBride (1904)
"The ciliated cells are eventually restricted to these chambers where they form
the choanocytes and all the rest of the sponge is formed from the granular ..."
4. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"<M*QSt. of the food particles are engulfed by the choanocytes and digested ...
The choanocytes are able to extend and contract their collars and to beat the ..."
5. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"... characterized by the comparatively large size of the choanocytes, which are
0.005 toO.009 millimeter in diameter; the chalk-sponges : contrasted witli ..."
6. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1900)
"The choanocytes, long unknown, have recently been discovered by Schulze, ...
At their upper ends also the choanocytes are adherent to one another, ..."
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