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planula

About 0.03 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun In embryonic development, a vesicle filled with fluid, formed from the morula by the divergence of its cells in such a manner as to give rise to a central space, around which the cells arrange themselves as an envelope; an embryonic form intermediate between the morula and gastrula.
  2. noun The larva of a hydrozoan, which is free-swimming and covered in cilia.

Similar words

ciliated morula blastula pharyngula blastule planulation placode plantule archiblastula gastrula

Often followed by

larva larvae of is stage and to in becomes

Word family

planulae

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