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‖ Cydippe Zool.|saɪˈdɪpiː|
[mod.L., a. Gr. κυδίππη proper name of a Nereid.]
A typical genus of Ctenophora, of which one beautiful species, C. pilosa, is common in the British Seas. Hence cyˈdippian a.; cyˈdippid, a ctenophoran of the family of Cydippe.
1835–6Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 39/1. 1846 Patterson Zool. 39 We took a dead Cydippe, and..exposed it to the sun. 1855Gosse Marine Zool. I. 39 The Beroes and Cydippes..look like tiny melons of glass, down whose bodies run bands or meridian-lines of paddles. 1860Agassiz Nat. Hist. U.S. III. 184, I merely infer its Cydippian relationship from the position of the tentacles. 1888Rolleston & Jackson Anim. Life 721 The larva is at first a Cydippid-form. |