单词 | protocoelomate |
释义 | protocoelomaten. Zoology. rare. Originally: (A. S. Hyatt's name for) a member of a grade of primitive multicellular animals characterized by a simple central cavity with branching sacs (not now considered coelomic), comprising most or all of the sponges. Now: a metazoan animal considered to represent or resemble a common ancestor of coelomate phyla. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > [noun] > member of > member of Protocoelomata protocoelomate1884 1884 A. S. Hyatt in Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 113 Anatomically, the Sponges may be called Metazoa protocœlomata... We can readily transform a protocœlomate into a trochocœlomate by destroying the horizontal parts of the partitions. 1998 Genome Res. (Electronic ed.) 8 590 (caption) Tree A..reflects the conventional interpretation of metazoan phylogeny with nematodes as a ‘protocoelomate’ group basal to arthropods and humans. DerivativesΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. Protocœlomatic, of or pertaining to the Protocœlomata. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1884 |
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