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hippocrepian, a. (n.) Zool. and Bot.|hɪpəʊˈkriːpɪən|
[f. hippo- + Gr. κρηπίς shoe + -ian.]
Resembling a horseshoe: spec. applied to the lophophore of certain polyzoans, and so to these polyzoans themselves. b. as n. A hippocrepian polyzoan.
1877Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. viii. 461 The lophophore resembles that of the hippocrepian Phylactolaemata in being produced into two arms fringed with a double series of tentacula. 1888Dawson Geol. Hist. Plants iii. 94 Traces of the hippocrepian mark characteristic of Protopteris. |