Cydippen.
/sʌɪˈdɪpiː/ Zoology.
A typical genus of Ctenophora, of which one beautiful species, C. pilosa, is common in the British Seas.
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Cydippe1835
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 39/1.
1846 R. Patterson Introd. Zool. 39 We took a dead Cydippe, and..exposed it to the sun.
1855 P. H. Gosse Man. Marine Zool. I. 39 The Beroes and Cydippes..look like tiny melons of glass, down whose bodies run bands or meridian-lines of paddles.
Derivatives
cyˈdippian adj.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [adjective] > of or belonging to class Ctenophora > resembling or belonging to genus Cydippe
cydippian1860
1860 L. J. R. Agassiz Contrib. Nat. Hist. U.S.A. III. 184 I merely infer its Cydippian relationship from the position of the tentacles.
cyˈdippid n. a ctenophoran of the family of Cydippe.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Ctenophora > class Tentacula > order Cydippidea > genus Cydippe > member of
cydippid1888
1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 721 The larva is at first a Cydippid-form.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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