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单词 trochophore
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Definition of trochophore in English:

trochophore

nounˈtrəʊkə(ʊ)fɔːˈtrɒkə(ʊ)fɔːˈträkəˌfôr
Zoology
  • The planktonic larva of certain invertebrates, including some molluscs and polychaete worms, having a roughly spherical body, a band of cilia, and a spinning motion.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Polychaetes usually have separate sexes; many polychaetes hatch into a particular type of planktonic larva, the trochophore, which later metamorphoses into a juvenile annelid.
    • The larva is a typical trochophore with apical organ, prototroch and metatroch of compound cilia, adoral ciliary zone and gastrotroch of separate cilia, and a pair of protonephridia; only the telotroch is missing.
    • Another phylum, the Pogonophora, are also vermiform animals with a trochophore larva.
    • The female releases her eggs one at a time, and one hatching the young animal will go through both a free-swimming trochophore and veliger stage, like all molluscs, before settling into an adult form in the muddy seafloor.
    • One widely-mooted suggestion is that planktotrophic larvae, typified by the annelidan trochophore and echinoid pluteus, existed long before the metazoan radiations evident in the Cambrian fossil record.

Origin

Late 19th century: from Greek trokhos 'wheel' + -phore.

 
 

Definition of trochophore in US English:

trochophore

nounˈträkəˌfôr
Zoology
  • The planktonic larva of certain invertebrates, including some mollusks and polychaete worms, having a roughly spherical body, a band of cilia, and a spinning motion.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Another phylum, the Pogonophora, are also vermiform animals with a trochophore larva.
    • The larva is a typical trochophore with apical organ, prototroch and metatroch of compound cilia, adoral ciliary zone and gastrotroch of separate cilia, and a pair of protonephridia; only the telotroch is missing.
    • One widely-mooted suggestion is that planktotrophic larvae, typified by the annelidan trochophore and echinoid pluteus, existed long before the metazoan radiations evident in the Cambrian fossil record.
    • Polychaetes usually have separate sexes; many polychaetes hatch into a particular type of planktonic larva, the trochophore, which later metamorphoses into a juvenile annelid.
    • The female releases her eggs one at a time, and one hatching the young animal will go through both a free-swimming trochophore and veliger stage, like all molluscs, before settling into an adult form in the muddy seafloor.

Origin

Late 19th century: from Greek trokhos ‘wheel’ + -phore.

 
 
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