ancestrulan.

Brit.

/anˈsɛstrᵿlə/, U.S.

/ænˈsɛstrələ/

Forms: 1800s– ancestrula, 1900s– ancestrule.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin ancestrula.

Etymology: < scientific Latin ancestrula < French ancestrule (both in J. Jullien Mission Scientifique du Cap Horn 1882–83 (1888) VI. iii. 27) < ancestre ancestor n. + -ule -ule suffix.

Zoology.

The single rounded zooid or zooecium by which a bryozoan colony is founded, formed by the metamorphosis of a sexually produced larva, and growing by asexual budding.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Polyzoa > [noun] > member of > as colony > founder zooid of

ancestrula1893

1893 Trans. Zool. Soc. 13 vi. 234 (caption) Another specimen, showing the ancestrula.

1967 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. 5 352 Subsequent growth of the colony..occurs in a regular manner around the ancestrula.

2010 C. Milsom & S. Rigby Fossils at Glance (ed. 2) v. 34/2 The shape of the colony, or zoarium, depends on the species and on the environment in which an ancestrula settles.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	ancestrula
释义	ancestrulan. Brit. /anˈsɛstrᵿlə/, U.S. /ænˈsɛstrələ/ Forms: 1800s– ancestrula, 1900s– ancestrule. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin ancestrula. Etymology: < scientific Latin ancestrula < French ancestrule (both in J. Jullien Mission Scientifique du Cap Horn 1882–83 (1888) VI. iii. 27) < ancestre ancestor n. + -ule -ule suffix. Zoology. The single rounded zooid or zooecium by which a bryozoan colony is founded, formed by the metamorphosis of a sexually produced larva, and growing by asexual budding. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Polyzoa > [noun] > member of > as colony > founder zooid of ancestrula1893 1893 Trans. Zool. Soc. 13 vi. 234 (caption) Another specimen, showing the ancestrula. 1967 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. 5 352 Subsequent growth of the colony..occurs in a regular manner around the ancestrula. 2010 C. Milsom & S. Rigby Fossils at Glance (ed. 2) v. 34/2 The shape of the colony, or zoarium, depends on the species and on the environment in which an ancestrula settles. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1893
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