Definition of Philactolaemata

Definition of Philactolaemata

{ ||Phy*lac`to*læ"ma (?), ||Phy*lac`to*læ"ma*ta (?), } n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; to guard + &?; the gullet.] (Zoöl.) An order of fresh-water Bryozoa in which the tentacles are arranged on a horseshoe-shaped lophophore, and the mouth is covered by an epistome. Called also Lophopoda, and hippocrepians.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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