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‖ Phyllirhoe Zool.|fɪˈlɪrəʊiː|
[f. Gr. ϕυλλορρόος shedding leaves, f. ϕύλλ-ον leaf + -ροος, from ῥοή flow.]
A genus of degenerate gastropod molluscs, having no cerata nor ctenidium, and of thin translucent body, without shell, gills, or foot, the general surface being respiratory in function; usually called from their appearance ocean-slugs.
The species P. bucephalus is highly phosphorescent.
1878Bell tr. Gegenbaur's Comp. Anat. 339 These gills are atrophied in many Opisthobranchiata, when the whole of the integument takes on the respiratory function (Phyllirhoe).
Hence phyllirhoid |ˈfɪlɪrɔɪd| a. and n. Zool.; (a) adj., akin to the genus Phyllirhoë; having the characters of the family Phyllirhoidæ; (b) n., a mollusc of this family, an ocean-slug. |