brachiopod

/brey-kee-uh-pod, brak-ee-/US // ˈbreɪ ki əˌpɒd, ˈbræk i- //UK // (ˈbreɪkɪəˌpɒd, ˈbræk-) //

腕足类动物,腕足动物,腕足纲动物,腕足类

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : any mollusklike, marine animal of the phylum Brachiopoda, having a dorsal and ventral shell; a lamp shell.

adj.形容词 adjective

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- : Also bra·chi·op·o·dous [brey-kee-op-uh-duhs, brak-ee]. /ˌbreɪ kiˈɒp ə dəs, ˌbræk i/. belonging or pertaining to the Brachiopoda.

Tubes stuck to the outer shells of hundreds of fossilized brachiopods discovered in an outcropping in China may have housed the earliest-known parasites.
This suggests that the tube-dwelling creature needed the brachiopod to survive.
These tubes appeared only on brachiopods — never alone or on other animals.
The process is apparently the same in a nebula or a brachiopod, although much more intricate in the latter.
Spirifer, spir′i-fėr, n. a brachiopod of the Carboniferous system.
A genus unfigured and imperfectly described as differing in some respects from Terebratula and other Brachiopod.